She is a graduate of the M.V. Lomonosov Moscow State University, Russia, where she has got a PhD in Electrochemistry (Kinetics and Catalysis) with Nina Fedorovich in 1998. Since then, she had several posdoctoral and assistant professor positions in Spain, Sweden, UK and Denmark, and took up her current position in 2009. Her research interests include applications of electrochemistry for studies of electron transfer reactions of nucleic acids and enzymes, biomedical electrochemical biosensors, sustainable energy production and photo/bioelectrocatalysis. She is a member of the Danish National Center for DNA Nanotechnology and since 2012 is an Associate Editor of Electrochimica Acta, Elsevier.