André Calero Valdez is Professor of Human-Computer Interaction and Usable Safety Engineering at the University of Lübeck since 2022. Here he conducts research on issues of human-computer interaction and usable safety in diverse application domains (e.g., eHealth, recommender systems, social media, information visualization, technology acceptance, Industry 4.0) using methods from computer science, psychology, and computational social sciences.
Until 2022, he was a senior researcher at the Department of Communication Science and the Human-Computer Interaction Center at RWTH Aachen University. There André had been head of the junior research group “Digital Mündigkeit” since 2018. He investigated the interplay of recommendation algorithms, social bots, and fake news in social media. Prior to that, André was a post-doc at RWTH Aachen University, working on the interface between algorithms and humans in various application areas (Cluster of Excellence Production Technology and BMBF project iNec, 2013-2017). Due to his excellent degree, he received a PhD scholarship at RWTH Aachen University in 2007. In his dissertation, André focused on the user-centered development and evaluation of a small-screen device for diabetes patients.
PhD in Psychology (Dr. phil.), 2013
RWTH Aachen University
Dipl.-Inform in Computer Science, 2007
RWTH Aachen University
Funded Research Projects
Funded by the Federal Ministry of Research and Eduaction”. Funding Period: 2022-2025
Funded by the Federal Ministry of Research and Eduaction”. Funding Period: 2022-2025
Funded by the Exploratory Research Space (ERS) by the DFG. Funding Period: 2021-2022
Funded by the RWTH digitization of teaching fund. Funding period: 2019
Funded by the BMBF. Funding period: 2018-2020
Funded by the ICT Foundations of a Digitized Industry, Economy, and Society” by the profile area ICT. Funding Period: 2016-2017
Funded by the DFG and ther German Federal and State Governments. Between 2012-2017, I have worked in this project in the …
User-Centered Design of Small Screen Devices for Diabetes Patients. My dissertation projected funded by the RWTH Aachen University …