She is affiliated with both the Center for Research in Econometric Analysis of Time Series (CREATES) at the School of Economics and Management and with the Thiele Centre for Applied Mathematics in Natural Science at the Department of Mathematical Sciences at Aarhus University. Before coming to Aarhus she studied mathematics, statistics and economics at the University of Ulm (Germany) and at the University of Oxford (UK) and she obtained a DPhil in Statistics from the University of Oxford.