Prior to that she worked as a researcher at JOANNEUM RESEARCH in Graz and conducted several international research internships, amongst others at HP labs and Xerox PARC. She was awarded with a DOC-fFORTE fellowship from the Austrian Academy of Science for her PhD which she received from Graz University of Technology. Her research focuses on computational methods for analyzing and modelling social phenomena (such as culture, inequality and discrimination) with digital trace data. She is in general interested in socio-technical systems, how human use these systems and how algorithms impact them.