Dr. Katrin Geneuss

Biography

Katrin Geneuss was born in Donaueschingen, grew up in Chile and graduated from high school in Donaueschingen. In 1994, she studied English, German, and Romance languages at Albert Ludwig University in Freiburg im Breisgau. She spent an exchange year at the University of Massachusetts in Amherst and at Smith College in Northampton. In 2001, she obtained a double degree (Magister/first state examination), followed by second state examination as a teacher for secondary schools in Freiburg i.Br.

In 2003, Geneuss became a teacher at Oberstufenkolleg Bielefeld and lecturer in Spanish teaching methodology at Bielefeld University. In 2008, she moved to Uppsala, Sweden, and taught at Katedralskolan high school for seven years. She was spokesperson at courses in teacher training at Uppsala University.

In 2016, she started as a research assistant at LMU Munich, and obtained her doctorate degree in German teaching methodology with an empirical study on live role-playing in curricular teaching in 2019. She was a research assistant at the University of Würzburg in 2020, and in 2021-2022 a substitute professor for German didactics at the University of Siegen. In 2024/25, she held a teaching position at the University of Erfurt for “Sustainability Education.”

Since April 2022, she is responsible for coordination and development in the el mundo certificate program. Since 2024, she has been designing the new degree program “Education for Sustainable Development in Teaching,” with the Bavarian Ministry of Education, which is available as an extension subject at LMU. In December 2022, Katrin Geneuss was elected to the board of the Munich Center for Sustainability (MZN) at LMU and confirmed in office in November 2024. Since 2023, she has been a juror for the UNESCO Commission's ESD Award.