Meet the Team
The TOGETHER Team
The TOGETHER team brings together researchers, educators, and developers from five European universities. Our diverse expertise — spanning economics, law, software engineering, sustainability sciences, educational sciences, chemistry, physics, and game design — enables us to create a truly interdisciplinary learning experience.
🇳🇱 University of Groningen
Daniël Vullings
University of Groningen
Project Coordinator
Daniël Vullings is an assistant professor at the University of Groningen, focused on education at the Faculty for Economics and Business in the Economics, Econometrics, and Finance department. He teaches mathematics and statistics courses and experiments with serious gaming in the Bachelor's Econometrics and Operations Research and Economics, and Business Economics. He coordinates the TOGETHER project.
Maria Lorena Flórez Rojas
University of Groningen
Legal strand lead
Lorena is an Assistant Professor of Law and Technology, specializing in digital law, algorithmic governance, and technology-driven education. She designed the serious game You Are Hired! to build client-focused, tech-literate legal skills. Within TOGETHER, she leads the legal strand of the hybrid serious game, aligning scenarios with GreenComp.
D. Maniar
University of Groningen
Bio coming soon.
Michael Lerch
University of Groningen
Bio coming soon.
L. Silveri
University of Groningen
Bio coming soon.
🇧🇪 Ghent University
Femke De Backere
Ghent University
WP3 Lead
Femke is an associate professor of Software Engineering at Ghent University. Her expertise includes software engineering, personalized and context-aware health solutions, serious games, gamification, and digital healthcare interventions. In TOGETHER, Femke leads the data management and proof-of-concept evaluation work package.
Sebastiaan de Oude
Ghent University
Bio coming soon.
Christian Walter
Ghent University
Bio coming soon.
🇸🇪 Uppsala University
Aleksandra Halaim
Uppsala University
Bio coming soon.
Ulrika Persson-Fischier
Uppsala University
Bio coming soon.
Alvin O'Sullivan
Uppsala University
Bio coming soon.
🇬🇪 Illia State University
Tamar Doborjginidze
Illia State University
Bio coming soon.
Marika Kapanadze
Illia State University
Bio coming soon.
🇨🇭 University of Bern Associated Partner
Christoph Bader
University of Bern
Swiss subproject co-lead
Christoph is a senior scientist and study director at University of Bern. His expertise includes sustainability transformations, pluralism in economics, social innovations and social inequality. He uses serious games in teaching and leads a course where students design their own serious games related to sustainability challenges.
Anna Lena Lewis
University of Bern
Swiss subproject co-lead
Anna Lena is a research associate and PhD candidate at the Centre for Development and Environment (CDE), specialising in Education for Sustainable Development (ESD) and innovative learning design. She co-develops competence-based curricula that foster transformative learning across diverse cultural contexts.
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