Nicole Heitzmann currently works at the Department of Psychology, Ludwig-Maximilians-University of Munich. In 2014 she became the managing director of the MCLS which involves more than 50 researchers from 8 faculties who engage in interdisciplinary research projects and in international masters’ and PhD programmes in the learning science.Her research focuses on learning processes and scaffolding in simulations and on technology enhanced learning as well as on transdisciplinary collaboration.