Her research is driven by an interest in how scientists grapple with uncertainty and unpredictability. Currently, she is studying how central European climate scientists in the first half of the twentieth century struggled to demarcate "local" climates in the face of the radical shifts in scale of their patron states. Her previous research probed the intersection of science and family dynamics in fin-de-siècle Vienna. She is the author of Vienna in the Age of Uncertainty: Science, Liberalism, and Private Life and a co-editor of Intimate Universality: Local and Global Themes in the History of Weather and Climate.