She is passionate about researching how the brain develops and completed her PhD in psychology and neuroscience at University College London in 2015. Louisa Kulke then conducted research as a postdoc at the University of Göttingen and as an assistant professor of neurocognitive developmental psychology at Friedrich Alexander University Erlangen-Nuremberg (FAU). The psychologist is especially committed to open science. She is also the mother of two children, in whom she observes neurocognitive development firsthand. At the University of Bremen, she is conducting research on the development of attention in social situations – both in typical development and in children with autism and social anxiety.