Thomas Knaus
Thomas Knaus (born September 28, 1974 in Frankfurt/Main) is a German educational scientist. He is an Professor of Educational Science specializing in Media Education and Head of Department of Media Pedagogy. at The Ludwigsburg University of Education and Honorary Professor for Educational Informatics 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 professor of Pedagogy at the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg 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. Research and projects. The primary focus of his research and work lies in the field of Media Education (digital literacy; digital change in educational institutions; media education in schools; methods and approaches in media research) and education informatics (educational technology, theory of technology, text and image in digital communication). Knaus is the initiator and project manager of the cooperation projects "fraLine  (1999–2014) and fraMediale" (since 2009). From 2011 to 2015 he was Managing Director of the Research Center Frankfurt Technology Center Media - FTzM, whose Scientific Director he is to this day. He is the initiator of the "fraMediale Prize", publisher of the "fraMediale book series" in the publishing house and project manager of the open access publication project "Forschungswerkstatt Medienpädagogik" ("Research Workshop Media Education") Membership in scientific organizations. Knaus is a member of the steering group of the initiative "No Education without Media!" (Keine Bildung ohne Medien – KBoM!) and as well member of the board of the Association for Media Education  and Communication Culture (GMK); he ist member of the German Informatics Society (GI), the German Educational Research Association (GERA | DGfE), and the Professional Group "School" (GMK) as well as a spokesperson for the "Qualitative Research Section" (GMK). He is co-author of the interdisziplinary working group "Dagstuhl/Frankfurt triangle for Education in the digitally networked World" and one of the supporters of the "Digital Education Charter" of the German Informatics Society (GI). Publications. A full list of Knaus's publications can be found on the website of his department at the Ludwigsburg University of Education or on his website