Prior to joining RBS in September 2014, she held a position as a post-doctoral research fellow at the Center for Research in Econometric Analysis of Time Series (CREATES) in Aarhus, Denmark. She completed her Ph.D. studies at the finance department of Maastricht University, The Netherlands (April 2011). During her Ph.D. program she was a visiting scholar at Duke University, USA (2010) and at The Institute for Financial Research (SIFR) in Stockholm, Sweden (2008, 2009). She obtained her B.Sc. (econometrics), M.Sc. (econometrics), and M.Phil. (economic and financial research) from Maastricht University. Before joining the academic community, she worked at a large German private bank for two years as a trainee.