She studied Mathematics in Iasi, Romania and obtained her PhD in 2003 from the University of Haifa, Israel. She has been a postdoc at the Radon Institute of the Austrian Academy of Sciences and at the J. Kepler University in Linz. She was a recipient of an Elise Richter award from FWF - the Austrian Science Fund and had longer research stays at IPAM (University of California at Los Angeles), IMPA (Rio de Janeiro), Fields Institute (Toronto).