Karsten Damerau is an academic councillor at the Zoology & Didactics of the University of Wuppertal. He currently heads the department of Ecology and Environmental Education at the University of Flensburg (EUF). He is also head of the teaching-learning laboratory BeLL Bio at the University of Wuppertal and works on academic self-concepts in science, professionalism in teacher education, teaching and learning processes in student laboratories as well as 3D visualization in science teaching.