My name is Marina-Sandra Larsen, and I work as a researcher in the urban green department of the Institute for Agricultural and Urban Ecological Projects at the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin (IASP), Germany. I studied M.Sc. Horticultural Science (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin) and M.Sc. Horticultural Engineering (Hungarian University of Agriculture and Life Sciences) until May 2023. I completed a B.Sc. in Horticultural Science (HU zu Berlin) in November 2020. I have worked as a student assistant on aeroponics (2021) and in the field of floriculture at the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin (2019–2022), and as a tutor for "Terra Preta and Permaculture" at the Eberswalde University of Applied Sciences in 2015–2016. I worked as a weltwärts South–North coordinator at the South African German Network e.V. between 2016 and 2019. My research interests range from international development cooperation, urban horticulture and urban greenery, sustainable hydroponic systems, plant ecophysiology, plant nutrition, and secondary plant compounds to pharmaceuticals and women's health uses of plants.