Dr. Astrid Carrapatoso is Professor of Political Science and its Didactics at the Pädagogische Hochschule Freiburg - University of Education. She is Vice Director of the Research Center for Climate Change Education and Education for Sustainable Development (ReCCE) since 2022. Previously, she worked as an academic advisor at the Seminar for Scientific Policy at the University of Freiburg and was a visiting scholar at the University of Auckland and the Australian National University. She completed her teacher training as a social studies and English teacher at a Freiburg grammar school. Her current research focuses on education for sustainable development, climate education and democracy education.