María do Mar Castro Varela holds a double degree in Psychology and Pedagogy and a PhD in Political Science. She is a professor of general education and social work at the Alice Salomon University in Berlin. She. She works on and researches Jewish Studies, Postcolonial Theory, the politics of memory, knowledge production and conspiracy theories. She is a member of the Radiating Globality research group led by Gayatri C. Spivak, founder and member of bildungsLab* and principal investigator of the Digital Hate research project.

As of September 2022