Julia Priess-Buchheit

Julia Priess-Buchheit (Prof. Dr. phil.) is an expert in learning open science, ethics and integrity, and social technologies. She leads the Zentrum für Konstruktive Erziehungswissenschaft and conducts her research at Kiel University. Before this transition, she was a professor of Education and Didactics at the University of Applied Sciences Coburg (Academic Centre for Sciences and Humanities), implementing an interdisciplinary study program for all faculties. In 2020, she became the Dean of Studies at the Academic Centre for Sciences and Humanities and founded the (German-speaking) Teaching and Learning Scientific Practice network.

She coordinates IP4OS, a HorizonEurope project on Open Science and Intellectual Property (€ 2 million). She is one of the few coordinators of a Horizon2020 project (Path2Integrity, € 2.5 million) associated with a university of applied sciences in Germany (and Europe).

She actively supported EOSC from 2022-2025, co-founded NERQ (Network for Education and Research Quality), and the University of Kiel awarded her the Innovative and Trendsetting Teaching prize; she won the Genius Loci-Preis with the Coburger Weg team. Her digital learning settings for students and pupils are open source, and she won both the #WeForSchool Hackathon (Germany) and the #EUvsVirus Hackathon.