Maria do Mar Castro Varela

María do Mar Castro Varela studied education and psychology at the University of Cologne and earned a doctorate in political science from Justus Liebig University Giessen in 2005. She became a professor of general pedagogy and social work at Alice Salomon University of Applied Sciences in Berlin. In 2015–16, she was a senior fellow at the Institute for Human Sciences in Vienna. In 2017, she founded bildungsLab*.