Prof. Dr. Yvonne Anders is a full professor of education with a focus on early childhood education at Freie Universität Berlin since 2012. As of 2013 she is also a research professor at the German Institute for Economic Research in Berlin. Earlier she worked as a researcher at several universities and research institutes (e.g. University of Bamberg, Max Planck Institute for Human Development in Berlin, Institute of Education of the University of London, University of Münster). Her key areas of research are the quality of Early Childhood Education and Care and its impact on children’s development, professional competencies of ECEC staff, and international comparative analyses of ECEC quality and its impact. She has been a principal investigator of several research projects. Some examples are the evaluation of the governmental initiative “Core daycare centres for language and integration” (2012-2014), the evaluation of the model program KIDZ phase V (2012-2015), the study “Easy Steps into Science” (2013-2016), the evaluation study AQuaFam “Approaches for promoting the home learning environment” (2013-2017) and the evaluation of the governmental initiative “language daycare centres”.