John G. Diefenbaker Award

Current Winner

Tobias Richter

Tobias Richter is a researcher and professor of educational psychology who has been working at Julius-Maximilians University, in Würzburg, Germany, since 2016. He studied psychology and philosophy at Goethe University, in Frankfurt, Germany, and received a PhD in psychology from the University of Cologne in 2003. After positions as a postdoctoral fellow at Florida State University and acting professor at the University of Cologne, he was a professor of cognitive psychology at the University of Kassel, in Germany. His research interests include the psychological effects of narratives, the cognitive foundations of learning, language and text comprehension, learning from text and digital media, and learning disorders.