She is also a lecturer at the UW School of Social Work. She earned her PhD in developmental psychology with a minor in quantitative psychology from the University of Montana, and completed her postdoctoral training at Northwestern University. Afterward, she worked as a research scientist at the Institute for Policy Research and an adjunct faculty at the Northwestern University School of Education and Social Policy. Dr. Guttmannova came to the University of Washington in 2009 and worked as a research scientist at the Social Development Research Group (SDRG). She is stationed at the Center for the Study of Health and Risk Behaviors (CSHRB) and is also a faculty research affiliate at the Center for Studies in Demography and Ecology (CSDE). She has been teaching at the School of Social Work since 2014..