Niels Pinkwart is Vice President for Academic Affairs at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin and Scientific Director of the AI Campus. He is also Scientific Director of the Educational Technology Lab research area at the DFKI Project Office Berlin. He studied computer science and mathematics at the University of Duisburg, where he completed his PhD studies in 2005 with a dissertation on collaborative modeling systems in education. After a post-doctoral researcher position at the Human-Computer Interaction Institute of Carnegie Mellon University, he accepted offers for Assistant Professor and Associate Professor positions at Clausthal University of Technology. In 2013, he moved to Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin where he heads the research group "Computer Science Education / Computer Science and Society".