Dr. Ulrich Ludewig
Mail:ulrich.ludewig@tu-dortmund.de
Center for Research on Education and School Development
Phone: 0231 / 755 - 6203
Vogelpothsweg 78 | Room 017

The campus of TU Dortmund University is located close to interstate junction Dortmund West, where the Sauerlandlinie A 45 (Frankfurt-Dortmund) crosses the Ruhrschnellweg B 1 / A 40. The best interstate exit to take from A 45 is “Dortmund-Eichlinghofen” (closer to South Campus), and from B 1 / A 40 “Dortmund-Dorstfeld” (closer to North Campus). Signs for the university are located at both exits. Also, there is a new exit before you pass over the B 1-bridge leading into Dortmund.
To get from North Campus to South Campus by car, there is the connection via Vogelpothsweg/Baroper Straße. We recommend you leave your car on one of the parking lots at North Campus and use the H-Bahn (suspended monorail system), which conveniently connects the two campuses.
TU Dortmund University has its own train station (“Dortmund Universität”). From there, suburban trains (S-Bahn) leave for Dortmund main station (“Dortmund Hauptbahnhof”) and Düsseldorf main station via the “Düsseldorf Airport Train Station” (take S-Bahn number 1, which leaves every 15 or 30 minutes). The university is easily reached from Bochum, Essen, Mülheim an der Ruhr and Duisburg.
You can also take the bus or subway train from Dortmund city to the university: From Dortmund main station, you can take any train bound for the Station “Stadtgarten”, usually lines U41, U45, U 47 and U49. At “Stadtgarten” you switch trains and get on line U42 towards “Hombruch”. Look out for the Station “An der Palmweide”. From the bus stop just across the road, busses bound for TU Dortmund University leave every ten minutes (445, 447 and 462). Another option is to take the subway routes U41, U45, U47 and U49 from Dortmund main station to the stop “Dortmund Kampstraße”. From there, take U43 or U44 to the stop “Dortmund Wittener Straße”. Switch to bus line 447 and get off at “Dortmund Universität S”.
The AirportExpress is a fast and convenient means of transport from Dortmund Airport (DTM) to Dortmund Central Station, taking you there in little more than 20 minutes. From Dortmund Central Station, you can continue to the university campus by interurban railway (S-Bahn). A larger range of international flight connections is offered at Düsseldorf Airport (DUS), which is about 60 kilometres away and can be directly reached by S-Bahn from the university station.
The H-Bahn is one of the hallmarks of TU Dortmund University. There are two stations on North Campus. One (“Dortmund Universität S”) is directly located at the suburban train stop, which connects the university directly with the city of Dortmund and the rest of the Ruhr Area. Also from this station, there are connections to the “Technologiepark” and (via South Campus) Eichlinghofen. The other station is located at the dining hall at North Campus and offers a direct connection to South Campus every five minutes.
The facilities of TU Dortmund University are spread over two campuses, the larger Campus North and the smaller Campus South. Additionally, some areas of the university are located in the adjacent “Technologiepark”.
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Mail:ulrich.ludewig@tu-dortmund.de
Center for Research on Education and School Development
Phone: 0231 / 755 - 6203
Vogelpothsweg 78 | Room 017

Dr. Ulrich Ludewig joined the Institute for School Development Research (IFS) at TU Dortmund University as a postdoctoral researcher in October 2019. His academic journey began with studying psychology at the University of Koblenz-Landau as well as at the Université Grenoble Alpes in France and the California State University, Chico. Subsequently, he continued his research as a doctoral student at the LEAD (Learning, Educational Achievement and Life Course Development) Graduate School and obtained his PhD in Psychology from Eberhard Karls University of Tübingen in 2018.
Dr. Ludewig has been an active associate member of the research project "From Prediction to Agile Interventions in the Social Sciences" (FAIR) since October 2019. At the same time, he takes over the operational management of the project "IGLU-Transfer" as well as the methodological management of the project "IGLU". Furthermore, he is an associate member of the LEAD research network and a proud member of the TU Dortmund Young Academy.
Ludewig, U., Schwerter, J., McElvany, N. (2023). The features of plausible but incorrect options: Modeling distractor plausibility in multiple-choice vocabulary tests. Journal of Psychoeducational Assessment, 0(0), 1-21. https://doi.org/10.1177/07342829231167892
Ludewig, U., Hübner, N., & Schröder, S. (2022). Vocabulary, text coverage and the lexical threshold in elementary school reading comprehension assessment. Reading and Writing. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11145-022-10385-0
Ludewig, U., Alscher, P., Chen, X., & McElvany, N. (2022). What makes domain knowledge difficult? word usage frequency from subtlex and dlexdb explains knowledge item difficulty. Behavior Research Methods. https://doi.org/10.3758/s13428-022-01918-0
Ludewig, U., Kleinkorres, R., Schaufelberger, R., Schlitter, T., Lorenz, R., König, C., Frey, A., & McElvany, N. (2022). COVID-19 pandemic and student reading achievement – findings from a school panel study. Frontiers in Psychology. 13:876485 https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2022.876485
Ludewig, U., Trendtel, M., Schlitter, T., & McElvany, N. (2021). Adaptives Testen von Textverständnis in der Grundschule. Diagnostica. https://doi.org/10.1026/0012-1924/a000279