Elisabeth Bauer graduated from LMU Munich with a Bachelor's degree in Educational Sciences (major) and Psychology (minor) and a Master's degree in Psychology in the Learning Sciences. From 2017 to 2023, she worked as a research associate at the Chair of Education and Educational Psychology at LMU Munich; during this time, she completed her PhD, working on the BMBF project FAMULUS on facilitating diagnostic reasoning and argumentation in medical and teacher education using simulations and AI-based automatic adaptive feedback (2017-2020); from 2019 to 2021, her research was funded through a fellowship position in the REASON international doctoral program of the Elite Network of Bavaria; from 2022 to 2023, she was a postdoctoral researcher at the Chair of Education and Educational Psychology at LMU Munich. In 2023 to 2024, she was a postdoctoral researcher at the Technical University of Munich, Chair of Educational Psychology, where she contributed to the COSIMA research group funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG). Since 2024 she is an Assistant Professor (Akademische Rätin auf Zeit) at the University of Augsburg, Chair of Learning Analytics & Educational Data Mining, and a Fellow at the CIDER College for Interdisciplinary Educational Research, funded by the Leibniz Education Research Network (LERN) and the Jacobs Foundation.