In 2015/2016 winter semester, Cornelia Wustmann has been appointed as professor for Councelling and Social Relations at TU Dresden. She had been a Eleonore Trefftz Visiting Professor at TU Dresden one year before, her main area of research had been the subject “Childhood and Youth in Institutions”.
After completing her teacher training course at Pädagogische Hochschule Zwickau, Prof. Cornelia Wustmann initially worked as a qualified teacher and educationalist. From 1995, she did a post-graduate course in Social Pedagogy at TU Chemnitz, and from 1997 to 2001, was then a research assistant at the Chair of Social Pedagogy at TU Chemnitz. On gaining her doctorate in April 2001, Prof. Wustmann relocated to TU Dresden, where she remained until 2008. During this time, she first took up a position as research assistant at the Chair of Social Education and then as project leader. After spending two years as substitute professor at the Chair of Didactics of Social Pedagogy at the Leuphana Universität Lüneburg, Prof. Wustmann has held the Chair of Elementary Education at the Institute of Educational Science at the Karl-Franzens-Universität Graz since 2010.
She has gained many years of experience in research and teaching related to social and vocational pedagogy, in the field of elementary education, and in researching educational institutions under historical and regional aspects.