Vera Sauer holds a bachelor degree in Applied Cognitive and Media Science and started working as a researcher at the Interactive Systems Research Group in March 2013. Before that, she worked as a research assistant at the chair of social psychology at the University of Duisburg-Essen, focusing media usage and its consequences (e.g. addiction).

Currently she works in the ECOWEB project, while studying the master program of Applied Cognitive and Media Science at the University of Duisburg-Essen. ECOWEB aims to increase the uptake of EU-funded eco-innovations through deployment of an intuitive and user-friendly web platform. Within the project she conducts end-user studies and works on the iterative evaluation and testing of the ECOWEB platform.