Lukas Seiling completed his bachelor's degree in psychology at the University of Mannheim. He continued his studies through the master's programs Cognitive Systems at the University of Potsdam and Human Factors at the Technical University of Berlin. Since March 2020 he has been working for the Weizenbaum Institute, where from 2020 to 2022 he co-led the Privacy Icons Project of the research group “Frameworks for Data Markets“.