He did his PhD in science education at the Leibniz-Institute for Science Education in Kiel. Prof. Urhahne worked for ten years at the Ludwig-Maximilians-University of Munich where he received his habilitation. After a short stay at the Martin-Luther-University of Halle-Wittenberg, where he founded a center for gifted children, Prof. Urhahne went to the University of Passau. He is working there with teacher education students and as the leader of the center of key competencies. His main research interests are in the areas of motivation, learning and instruction, science education, diagnostics and evaluation.