Michael Ahlers (born 1973) is a German music educator.
Ahlers graduated as a teacher for secondary education in the subjects Germanistics and literature and music with the artistic main subject guitar as well as musicology. After his studies, he worked as managing editor of the journal Musikunterricht und Computer (MUC) at Lugert Verlag . After the third issue, he took over editorial activities in the publishing house and additionally supervised individual projects in the areas of "Content Management" as well as "Network Administration". [1] Since 2005, he worked as a research assistant at the Paderborn University and in 2008, he received his Dr. phil. [2] Since 2009 he was academic council at the Paderborn University.
In 2010, he received an appointment to a professorship in music education with a focus on digital media at the Leopold Mozart Centre of the University of Augsburg. Since June 2012, he has held a professorship for music education at the Leuphana Universität Lüneburg. In September 2012, he accepted the appointment to a professorship for music didactics with a focus on pop music at the same University. [1]