Prof. Dr. Marit Kristine List

Prof. Dr. Marit Kristine List is an assistant professor at the Center of Methods, School of Education, Leuphana University Lüneburg.

Marit’s research focuses on the effectiveness of education for sustainable development (ESD) in schools, as well as methodological issues related to the development of tests and surveys for ESD-related constructs. Marit is currently investigating teachers’ professional competencies in the area of ESD, as well as structural and individual predictors of effective ESD programs. In addition, Marit works on modeling ESD-related psychological constructs, for example, environmental knowledge and climate emotions. Another research interest is intersectionality and learning success.

Before joining Leuphana, Marit worked as a postdoctoral researcher at the Center for Environmental Systems Research at the University of Kassel (Germany), at the DIPF | Leibniz Institute for Research and Information in Education (Frankfurt am Main, Germany), and at the Chair of Clinical Psychology and Psychotherapy at the University of Greifswald (Germany). Marit holds a degree in psychology, and her dissertation focused on modeling test-taking behavior in educational achievement tests. Throughout her academic career, Marit has conducted research in many different areas of education, ranging from environmental psychology to clinical psychology to educational measurement.