• since 2023 Co-Chair of the Adult Education Section of the German Society for Educational Science (DGfE)
• 2021/2022 Visiting Professor at the Institute of Educational Sciences at University of Graz, Austria
• since 2021 Member of the Board of the Adult Education Division of the German Educational Research Association (GERA)
• since 2020 Scientific Director of  the Institute for Technology and Work (Institut für Technologie und Arbeit – ITA), Kaiserslautern
• since 2019 Professor of Adult Education at Technische Universität Kaiserslautern (since 2023 Rheinland-Pfälzische Technische Universität)
• 2019 Scientific Director of the Distance and Independent Studies Center (DISC) at Technische Universität Kaiserslautern
• 2017 - 2019 Deputy Scientific Director of the Distance and Independent Studies Center (DISC) at Technische Universität Kaiserslautern
• 2017 - 2019 Head of the Department "Development and Transfer" of the Distance and Independent Studies Center (DISC) at Technische Universität Kaiserslautern
• 2013 - 2019 Assistant Professor for Adult Education with a focus on distance learning and e-learning at Technische Universität Kaiserslautern (2013-2016 in cooperation with the German Institute for Adult Education – Leibniz Centre for Lifelong Learning, Bonn)
• Deputy Head of Training Concepts, Strategy, Quality for Vocational Education and Training, Deutsche Telekom AG, Bonn
• Research assistant at the University of Applied Sciences Northwestern Switzerland, Institute for Information Systems, Basel (CH)
• Research assistant at the University of Zurich, E-Learning Center
• Research assistant at Helmut-Schmidt-Universität, Hamburg, doctorate (Dr. phil.)
• Research assistant at the Fraunhofer Institute for Software and Systems Engineering (ISST), Berlin
• Study of educational science, sociology and psychology at Freie Universität Berlin

• Adult education and digital media
• Crisis and disaster education
• Informal and self-directed learning and 
• Historical adult education research

with a focus on the areas of general, vocational/company and academic continuing education

2023

Lacher, S., & Rohs, M. (2023d). Civil protection through adult and continuing education in Germany. A scoping review of an emerging research field. International Journal of Lifelong Education, 1-18. doi.org/10.1080/02601370.2023.2263651  

Rohs, M. (2023f). The value of criticism. Media criticism as an aim of adult education, In EPALE & ERASMUS+ (Eds.), Fact or fiction? Teaching critical media skills in adult education (S. 15-19). Wien. 

Rohs, M., Heinbach, G., & Tokarski, B. M. (2023). Governance of university continuing education in Germany. A scoping review of research in a game-changing area. Journal for Research on Adult Education. 46(1), 25-42. doi.org/10.1007/s40955-023-00244-y

2022

Morris, T., Steinmüller, B. & Rohs, M. (2022). Examining barriers to participation in further and continuing education in Germany: Why a regional perspective is (still) important. International Review of Education. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11159-022-09968-4

Weber, H., Elsner, A., Wolf, D., Rohs, M., & Turner-Cmuchal, M. (2022). Inclusive Digital Education. Odense, Denmark: European Agency for Special Needs and Inclusive Education. Online

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Prof. Dr. Matthias Rohs
Rheinland-Pfälzische Technische Universität
Faculty of Social Science
Department of Educational Science
Erwin-Schrödinger-Straße
Bld. 57, room 471
67663 Kaiserslautern

Tel.: 0631-205-3697
Fax: 0631-205-2722
E-Mail: matthias.rohs[at]rptu.de 
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