She obtained the PhD from Aalborg University in 2008. She has a ten year experience as a researcher in the area of mobile telecommunication systems. She contributed to the design of a next generation radio communication system through her work as the AAU research team leader in the FP6 EU funded projects WINNER/WINNER II, and CELTIC-funded WINNER+, with the research laying the foundations for the current Long-Term Evolution (LTE) and LTE Advanced, the latter recently approved as an IMT-Advanced standard in ITU-R.