The Professorship's profile includes fundamental research as well as application-oriented research on learning and developmental processes.

The Professorship's basic research deals with psychological microprocesses of learning and development (e.g., what mechanisms are behind the development of study motivation?), with individual learning prerequisites and development paths in adolescence and young adulthood, and with meso and macro contexts such as teachers, parents, and institutional structures (e.g., what is effective for which learners?).

Application-oriented research focuses on intervention strategies. This includes the evidence-based development of digital learning designs or the development of process diagnostic instruments as a basis for individualized learning and adaptive teaching.