Anne Seela has been a member of the PIN team since 2009. Initially, she provided support as a research project assistant at the interface between project management and administration for numerous externally funded projects in the field of climate adaptation and innovation. Since 2019, she has been a research assistant, focusing on the development of collaborative teaching formats between students and companies based on challenge-based learning. In the current Wi-Ko-nova project, she is involved in impact monitoring of co-innovations in teaching.

Since 2024, Anne Seela has been responsible for co-innovation and challenge-based learning at the Centre for Lifelong Learning (C3L) in the project "Transformation of the Energy System in Lower Saxony" (TEN.efzn) and is involved in setting up the EFZN Academy, a "showcase" for energy-related advanced scientific training within TEN. The aim is to establish co-innovation through challenge-based learning in the field of in-service advanced scientific training.

Anne Seela successfully studied economics (with a focus on marketing & trade, human resources & organisation, and economic sociology) at the Leipzig Graduate School of Management and Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg. She has many years of professional experience at the University of Oldenburg, as a research assistant at the Institute for Technology and Education (ITB) at the University of Bremen, and as an advisor for marketing/human resources management at the North Rhine-Westphalia Crafts Organisation. She completed a part-time degree in education and science management (MBA) at C3L, which she successfully completed in 2022.