Kristina Steinmar studied geoecology in Potsdam and worked as a scientific officer at RIFS Potsdam and at acatech.

Since 2023, she has been a doctoral student at the Technical University of Berlin in the BMBF junior research group "Social, economic and ecological effects of participatory, sustainable food production" [pane]. There she investigates the economic effects of initiatives of participatory, sustainable food production. Her research focuses on the motivations, challenges, knowledge needs and perspectives of farmers.