She holds a M.Sc. degree from Linköping University, Sweden, and received her PhD from Stanford University, California in 2009. After a postdoc stay at Nordita, the Nordic Institute for Theoretical Physics, she was awarded an Assistant Professor position from the Swedish Research Council and joined Uppsala University in 2011. Her current research focuses on superconductivity, topological states of matter, and Dirac materials. In 2014 she was awarded a Wallenberg Academy Fellowship for her work on topological superconductors.