Thomas Knaus

Thomas Knaus (born 1974 in Frankfurt/Main) is a German educational scientist. He is a full-professor of Media Education at the Heidelberg University of Education and Honorary Professor for Educational Technology at the Faculty of Computer Science & Engineering at the Frankfurt University of Applied Sciences (Frankfurt UAS). He also work as an academic director of the FTzM in Frankfurt am Main. He served as a professor of pedagogy at the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, as a professor of Educational Science specializing in Media Education and head of Department of Media Pedagogy, as well as a visiting professor at the University of Otago (Dunedin, New Zealand), at the University of Sydney (Australia) and at the University of Vienna (Austria). Before his academic career Knaus worked as a teacher and a media educator in extracurricular youth work in Frankfurt am Main and Bad Homburg. Provided by Wikipedia