Pascal Kockwelp

Current affiliations

Professorship for Psychologiscal Diagnostics and Personality Psychology (Prof. Back)
Fliednerstr. 21, 48149 Münster
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Academic profiles

Curriculum Vitae (CV)

Research Focus

Virtual and Augmented Reality
Machine Learning for Human-Computer-Interaction
Serious Games for medical education

Academic Education
since 03/2020	Ph. D. studies, Computer Vision & Machine Learning Systems group (Prof. Benjamin Risse)
10/2017 - 02/2020	Master of Science (Computer Science), University of Münster
10/2014 - 09/2017	Bachelor of Science (Computer Science), University of Münster

Publications

Teaching personalized doctor-patient communication with AI: PerTRAIN—a prototype for interpersonally responsive virtual patients in medical education. Junga, A., Hätscher, O., Dabel, J., Mado, G., Ajani, A., Pielage, L., Kockwelp, P., Breil, S. M., Baur, H., Siebenbrock, J., Risse, B., Grammer, T., Marschall, B., & Back, M. D. (2026) In: Perspectives on Medical Education, 15(1), 465-474. doi:10.5334/pme.2379 Research article (journal) \| Peer reviewed \| Published
Teach the unteachable with a virtual reality (VR) brain death scenario - 800 students and 3 years of experience Junga, Anna; Kockwelp, Pascal; Valkov, Dimitar; Schulze, Henriette; Bozdere, Philipp; Hätscher, Ole; Ahrens, Helmut; Marschall, Bernhard; Risse, Benjamin; Holling, Markus (2025) In: Perspectives on Medical Education, 14(1), 45-54. doi:10.5334/pme.1427 Research article (journal) \| Peer reviewed \| Published
Rethinking interaction design: Special implications for interaction concepts in medical education using virtual reality Junga, A., Bozdere, P., Hätscher, O., Scherzer, S., Schmidle, P., Schulze, H., Pielage, L., Kockwelp, P., Meyerheim, M., Mergen, M., Risse, B., Marschall, B., Glückselig, T., & Ungru, K. (2025) In: Virtual Reality, 29(98). doi:10.1007/s10055-025-01180-7 Research article (journal) \| Peer reviewed \| Published
VR-based Competence Training at Scale: Teaching Clinical Skills in the Context of Virtual Brain Death Examination Kockwelp, Pascal; Meyerheim, Marcel; Valkov, Dimitar; Mergen, Marvin; Junga, Anna; Krüger, Antonio; Marschall, Bernhard; Holling, Markus; Risse, Benjamin (2024) In: Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction, 8, 261. doi:10.1145/3664635 Research article (journal) \| Peer reviewed \| Published
Hirntoddiagnostik in Virtual Reality – was denken Studierende darüber? Schulze Henriette, Junga Anna, Hätscher Ole, Kockwelp Pascal, Risse Benjamin, Holling Markus, Marschall Bernhard (2023) In: Jahrestagung der Gesellschaft für Medizinische Ausbildung (GMA) 2023, Osnabrück, Germany. Poster \| Peer reviewed \| Published

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Prizes

Teaching Award 2021
Awarded by: University of Münster
Award given to: Holling, Markus; Risse, Benjamin; Schloßbauer, Anna; Kockwelp, Pascal
Announced at: 15/01/2022 | Date of awarding: 15/01/2022
Type of distinction: Research award or other distinction

Teaching personalized doctor-patient communication with AI: PerTRAIN—a prototype for interpersonally responsive virtual patients in medical education. Junga, A., Hätscher, O., Dabel, J., Mado, G., Ajani, A., Pielage, L., Kockwelp, P., Breil, S. M., Baur, H., Siebenbrock, J., Risse, B., Grammer, T., Marschall, B., & Back, M. D. (2026) In: Perspectives on Medical Education, 15(1), 465-474. doi:10.5334/pme.2379 Research article (journal) \| Peer reviewed \| Published
Teach the unteachable with a virtual reality (VR) brain death scenario - 800 students and 3 years of experience Junga, Anna; Kockwelp, Pascal; Valkov, Dimitar; Schulze, Henriette; Bozdere, Philipp; Hätscher, Ole; Ahrens, Helmut; Marschall, Bernhard; Risse, Benjamin; Holling, Markus (2025) In: Perspectives on Medical Education, 14(1), 45-54. doi:10.5334/pme.1427 Research article (journal) \| Peer reviewed \| Published
Rethinking interaction design: Special implications for interaction concepts in medical education using virtual reality Junga, A., Bozdere, P., Hätscher, O., Scherzer, S., Schmidle, P., Schulze, H., Pielage, L., Kockwelp, P., Meyerheim, M., Mergen, M., Risse, B., Marschall, B., Glückselig, T., & Ungru, K. (2025) In: Virtual Reality, 29(98). doi:10.1007/s10055-025-01180-7 Research article (journal) \| Peer reviewed \| Published
VR-based Competence Training at Scale: Teaching Clinical Skills in the Context of Virtual Brain Death Examination Kockwelp, Pascal; Meyerheim, Marcel; Valkov, Dimitar; Mergen, Marvin; Junga, Anna; Krüger, Antonio; Marschall, Bernhard; Holling, Markus; Risse, Benjamin (2024) In: Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction, 8, 261. doi:10.1145/3664635 Research article (journal) \| Peer reviewed \| Published
Hirntoddiagnostik in Virtual Reality – was denken Studierende darüber? Schulze Henriette, Junga Anna, Hätscher Ole, Kockwelp Pascal, Risse Benjamin, Holling Markus, Marschall Bernhard (2023) In: Jahrestagung der Gesellschaft für Medizinische Ausbildung (GMA) 2023, Osnabrück, Germany. Poster \| Peer reviewed \| Published