Prof. Dr. Martin Gartmeier

Martin Gartmeier studied education, psychology, sociology, and intercultural competence in Munich, Regensburg, and Turku (FIN). He earned his doctorate at the Institute of Education (Prof. em. Dr. Dr. h.c. Hans Gruber and Prof. em. Dr. Dr. h.c. Helmut Heid) at the University of Regensburg as part of the DFG project “Workplace Learning.” The topic of his dissertation was informal learning in the workplace, particularly learning from mistakes. Upon joining the TUM School of Education, he served as coordinator of the BMBF project ProfKom and as conference manager for the EARLI 2013 conference at the Chair of Empirical Educational Research (Prof. Dr. Manfred Prenzel). After spending time abroad in Bern (Switzerland), Urbana-Champaign (USA), and Aarhus (Denmark), he completed his habilitation in educational sciences in 2017 (topic: Promoting professional communicative competence in the fields of medicine and teacher education). Since May 2016, he has been working at the Chair of Medical Didactics, Medical Teaching Development, and Educational Research. In May 2023, he was appointed adjunct professor.

Martin Gartmeier’s research interests lie in the area of pedagogical professionalism as well as profession-related learning and development processes and their contextual conditions, particularly in the medical context:

• Communication and counseling competencies and competency development
• Effectiveness of digital learning environments in promoting communication and counseling competencies
• Learning from mistakes and negative knowledge in work contexts
• Development of professional competence and expertise in the medical field
• Video-based teaching research in the medical field

Short CV

05/2023

Appointment as Adjunct Professor

May 2016 – present 

Technical University of Munich / TUM School of Medicine. Head of the research team at the Chair of Medical Didactics, Medical Teaching Development, and Educational Research

09/2013 – 04/2016

Technical University of Munich / TUM School of Education. Research Associate at the Susanne Klatten Endowed Chair for Empirical Educational Research (Prof. Dr. Manfred Prenzel)

08/2012 – 08/2013

Technical University of Munich / TUM School of Education. EARLI 2013 Conference Manager

10/2009 – 10/2012

Technical University of Munich / TUM School of Education. Project Coordinator for the BMBF ProfKom project

Oct. 2005 – Oct. 2009

University of Regensburg. Research Assistant at the Institute of Education (Prof. em. Dr. Dr. h.c. Hans Gruber and Prof. em. Dr. Dr. h.c. Helmut Heid) in the DFG project “Competence Development in the Work Process”