She studied pedagogy with an adult education orientation at the University of Bremen and then went on to complete her PhD on the topic of adult education in a society of migration at the University of Hamburg.As a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Vienna, she expanded her expertise on the field of German as a second/ further language and the handling of multilingualism in school lessons. At Bielefeld University, she then took on an interim professorship. Alisha M.B. Heine- mann’s work focuses on educational processes in a migration society formed by social, cultural, gender-based, and linguistic heterogeneity. Learning spaces, interfaces between educational institutions, and transfers from schools to vocational training and careers that are influenced by heterogeneity form the core of her teaching and research.