Lea Ulmer studied for her Bachelor’s and Master of Education degrees in Economics and Spanish at the University of Tübingen. She then completed her teacher training at a Gymnasium in Sindelfingen and subsequently taught Economics (“Wirtschaft/ Berufs- und Studienorientierung”) as well as German as a Second Language at the Bildungszentrum Weissach im Tal.

Since September 2026, Lea Ulmer has been a research associate at the Chair of Economic Education and Business Didactics at the University of Tübingen. In her doctoral research, she focuses on economic competencies in the context of social inequality.