Lara Wahrhausen, M. Ed.

Lara Wahrhausen has been a Research Associate at the Chair of Business and Economics Education for Vocational Teacher Education at the Faculty of Economics and Social Sciences at the University of Potsdam since March 2025. Previously, from October 2023 to February 2025, she worked as a Research Associate at Weingarten University of Education and spent several years as a student research assistant and tutor at Georg-August University of Göttingen, including positions at the Chairs of Business and Economics Education, Business and Economics Education and Human Resource Development, as well as in Statistics and Econometrics. She completed her Master of Education in Business and Economics Education with Physical Education as a second subject at Georg-August University of Göttingen in 2023, having earned her Bachelor of Arts in the same field profile there in 2021.

Her research focuses on the professionalization of commercial vocational teachers and the promotion of self-directed learning competencies in higher education. In the area of professionalization, she is particularly concerned with the integration of digital tools to support learning processes and with the design and implementation of VR-based simulation scenarios for teacher education. Another key focus is self-regulated learning: she designs and investigates learning environments that foster individual regulation of learning processes and develops digitally supported formats aimed at strengthening self-learning strategies. The overarching goal of her work is to develop empirically grounded concepts that sustainably enhance both digital and pedagogical professionalism in teacher education.