- Function: Senior Expert for Empirical Methods
- Phone: +49 5241 9761-64
- E-Mail: Nina.Horstmann@che.de
- Assistance: Tina Schürmann
Dr Nina Horstmann has been working at the Centre for Higher Education (CHE) since 2013. As a Senior Expert for Empirical Methods, she is responsible for the student surveys in the CHE University Ranking (together with Dr Marc Hüsch) as well as the survey of professors. In addition, she is involved in higher education research with a particular focus on future skills in higher education teaching and learning.
Before joining CHE in 2013, Nina Horstmann was a doctoral scholarship holder at the Max Planck Institute for Research on Collective Goods in Bonn, where she conducted research in the independent junior research group “Intuitive Experts”. She then worked as a research associate at the German Police University (Deutsche Hochschule der Polizei) in Münster in the field of social, work and organisational psychology. Alongside her role at CHE, Nina Horstmann also taught and conducted research as a postdoctoral researcher at Bielefeld University of Applied Sciences in the Faculty of Business (funded by the Career@BI project, March 2024 – February 2025).
Nina Horstmann studied Psychology at the University of Trier and earned her PhD in Psychology at the University of Mannheim.