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Tina Seidel holds the Friedl Schöller Endowed Chair in Educational Psychology at the Technical University of Munich. Her research interests encompass digital educational technologies, simulations in university teaching, the development of professional vision in teachers, and evidence-based teaching practices. She has a background in psychology from the University of Regensburg and Vanderbilt University, earning her doctorate from IPN Kiel in 2002. Seidel was appointed as a junior professor in teaching research in 2003 and later became a full professor at TUM. She has served as a visiting professor at Stanford University from 2005 to 2006 and led the Chair of Educational Psychology at the University of Jena from 2007 to 2009. In 2023, she became the Director of the TUM Center for Educational Technologies and heads the Evidence Practice department Clearing House Teaching. Seidel has been a member of the expert committee 'Aktionsrat Bildung' since 2015 and has received numerous awards for her research, including the Review Research Award from the American Educational Research Association in 2008 and Young Researcher Awards from the Jacobs Foundation and the Division of Educational Psychology of the German Psychological Society. Her notable publications address topics such as simulation-based learning in higher education and the effectiveness of teaching methodologies.