Tina Seidel's research interests include digital educational technologies such as simulations for university teaching, the development of professional vision among teachers at schools and universities, video analyses of teaching-learning interactions, as well as meta-analyses and evidence-based teaching. 

After studying psychology (University of Regensburg, Vanderbilt University), Prof. Seidel received her doctorate at the IPN in Kiel (2002) and was appointed junior professor for teaching research (2003). Before becoming a full professor at TUM, she was a visiting professor at Stanford University (2005-2006) and held the Chair of Educational Psychology at the University of Jena (2007-2009). From 2023 to 2026, she has been Founding Director of the TUM Center for Educational Technologies. Since 2015 she heads the Evidence in Practice science communication plattform Clearing House Teaching.

Since 2015, she has been a member of the expert committee “Aktionsrat Bildung”, initiated by the Bavarian Industry Association (vbw). Since 2025, she is president of the German Association for Empirical Educational Research (GEBF) and member of the Bavarian Academy of the Sciences (BAdW).