Thomas Köhler is Professor for Educational Technology at the Institute for Vocational Education of Dresden University of Technology since 2005, where he serves as well as deputy director. He studied at Friedrich-Schiller-University Jena (Germany) and Swarthmore College (USA) and holds degrees in psychology and sociology, and received his Ph.D. in communications psychology from FSU Jena in 1999. He is also Director of the TUD Media Centre and heads the E-Learning Task Force of the Saxonian Rectors conference. In 2012, he was elected as President of the International Society of Media in Science which covers researchers and practitioners who deal with E-Learning and E-Science from Austria, Germany and Switzerland.