She completed her Ph.D. at Hebrew University’s Federmann School of Public Policy and Government in 2012 with a dissertation entitled “Expanded Citizen Participation and Participatory Equality: A Vicious or Virtuous Circle?”. She conducted research abroad as a Visiting Research Fellow at Harvard University’s Multidisciplinary Program on Inequality and Social Policy (2010-2012), and as a Visiting Scholar at the University of Pennsylvania’s Annnenberg School for Communication (2010-2014). Dr. Oser served as a Senior Researcher (Post-doctoral Research Associate) for the research project “Linkage Mechanisms between Citizens and the State” (2012-2014), a project funded by a European Research Council Advanced Grant awarded to Principle Investigator Prof. Marc Hooghe.