In 1998 she became a faculty member at the International Relations Department, University of Yangon, where she also received her PhD in 2009 and remained teaching there until 2015. She published a number of articles in Myanmar Academy of Arts and Science and University Research Journals. She was a participant of a curriculum and faculty development project in Myanmar led by CEU in 2014-16, which helped establish undergraduate Political Science specializations at two major universities in the country. She is a Visiting Research Fellow at the CEU Department of International Relations. E-mail: thidarsann.799@gmail.com