Prior to taking up this post she was a visiting Lecturer at Otago University, New Zealand and a post-doctoral research fellow at Kyoto University, Japan. She is also the recipient of a research grant from the Alexander von Humboldt Stiftung, which she took up at the University of Hamburg, Germany. She works primarily in analytic metaphysics on issues associated with metaphysical dependence, fundamentality and the over-arching structure of reality. Her work is strongly historically oriented and draws on both Western and non-Western traditions.