She holds a PhD degrees in Computer Science from ETH Zurich, and an undergraduate degree from the Friedrich-Alexander-Universitaet Erlangen, Germany. Bettina has published over 70 publications in major journals and conferences in the areas of database systems and distributed systems as well as served on the program committee and as area chair of the major database and distributed systems conferences such as SIGMOD, VLDB, ICDE, ICDCS, Middleware and many more. Her research focuses on large-scale distributed data management with a main focus on data consistency and data dissemination.