JunProf. Dr. Luisa Girnus, since December 2024, she has been a junior professor of political education, education for sustainable development (ESD), and transformative education at the Otto-Suhr-Institute for Political Science. There, she conducts research on issues at the intersection of political education with ESD and transformative education, learning processes in social value discourses, and language-sensitive and gender-equitable teaching of social sciences. She publishes on political education in the context of technology and digitality, as well as empirical teaching and learning research in the social sciences. As one of the initiators of the working group on political education and gender within the Society for Political Didactics and Political Youth and Adult Education, she advocates for stronger gender and intersectional perspectives in political didactics. She is active in the speakers' circle of the Political Science and Political Education Section of the German Association for Political Science (DVPW). She is also involved in the state executive committee of the German Association for Political Education (DVPB) Brandenburg and as an assessor on the federal executive committee of the DVPB. Since 2018, she has been part of the editorial team of the journal POLIS.