UW–Madison’s David Kaplan, the Patricia Busk Professor of Quantitative Methods in the School of Education’s Department of Educational Psychology, was named an international guest professor and will spend three months at the Institute für Bildungswissenshaft (Institute for Education Science) at Heidelberg University in Germany.
The professorship is part of the project “Expanding Internationality,” a component of the university’s Excellence Strategy, which includes a funding line for international guest professors. The university’s website states: “The objective of this funding line is to bring expert knowledge of renowned international academics to Heidelberg University, to increase and complement the research potential in certain fields, and to extend and internationalize the range of research-based teaching.”
During his professorship, Kaplan, along with Heidelberg University colleague Nina Jude, will be working to develop probabilistic forecasting models applied to the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals in education.
Kaplan will begin his professorship in January 2023.