She obtained her DPhil in Economics from the University of Oxford in 2010. She then joined the London School of Economics as a Postdoctoral Research Fellow and became Associate of the Globalisation programme at the Centre for Economic Performance. During her postdoc, she also spent time as Visiting Scholar at Stanford University. In 2011, she was appointed Lecturer in Economics at the University of Surrey. Her research focuses on the effects of economic integration on various aspects of international trade. She is particularly interested in the economics of International Trade Agreements on one hand, and in firm behaviour in a globalised economy on the other hand.