Prof. Dr. Friedrich W. Hesse holds the chair for Applied Cognitive Psychology and Media Psychology at the University of Tübingen, Germany, and is Director of the Knowledge Media Research Center (KMRC) in Tübingen. He studied Psychology at the Universities of Marburg and Düsseldorf, earned his doctorate at the RWTH Aachen (Dr. phil., 1979), and qualified as a University lecturer at the University of Göttingen (Dr. rer. nat. habil., 1988/89).
Friedrich W. Hesse is speaker of various research and development initiatives dealing with the application of knowledge media, e.g., the first German Virtual PhD Program of DFG, and a DFG Special Priority Program on "Net-based Knowledge Communication in Groups".
Prof. Dr. Dr. F. Hesse's research work focuses on the basics of cooperative knowledge acquisition and knowledge communication via the internet. Some topics are collaborative design, group awareness and knowledge communication via shared databases.