Simone Janda studied speech therapy (M.A.) at LMU Munich and adult education (M.A.) at TU Kaiserslautern. She then worked for several years as a speech and language pathologist in various speech therapy practices, an interdisciplinary early-intervention care center, and a youth psychiatric clinic. Since 2017, she has been working on projects to foster study skills among students. Her focus is to expand the selection of online Lerncoach programs for students and to design e-learning media.