Prof. Dr. Detmar Meurers

Detmar Meurers

Detmar Meurers is a professor of computational linguistics at the University of Tübingen, where he moved in 2008 after eight years as a faculty member at The Ohio State University. He is active on the steering board of the LEAD Research Network in Empirical Educational Science and since 2024 heads the new "Language and AI in Education" research group at the Leibniz-Institut für Wissensmedien (IWM). In his second language acquisition research he investigates foundational research issues with the development of AI-based tools supporting real-life education needs. This includes linking linguistic complexity analysis to the adaptive provision of developmentally proximal input to learners, or investigating the link between practice in an intelligent tutoring system and authentic task performance.