Jürgen Buder studied psychology in Göttingen (diploma) and moved to Tübingen in 1995. There, he was working at the German Institute for Research on Distance Education (DIFF; 1995-2000) and at the Department of Applied Cognitive Psychology and Media Psychology of the Institute for Psychology at Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen (2000-2008). In 2002, he received a Faculty Award for his PhD thesis on knowledge exchange. Since 2008, he is at the Leibniz-Institut für Wissensmedien (IWM) where he became Deputy Head of the Knowledge Exchange Lab in 2012. He also coordinated the scientific development of the Leibniz-WissenschaftsCampus Tübingen Informational Environments (2010-2017) and the Leibniz-WissenschaftsCampus Tübingen Cognitive Interfaces (since 2017).