She joined the Nuclear and High Energy Laboratory (LPNHE), a joint research unit between the Centre national de la recherche scientifique (CNRS) and Pierre and Marie Curie University, where she worked on collider-based particle physics.[1] Bassler used data from the HERA particle accelerator, where she worked on the structure of the proton as a member of the H1 experiment at DESY in Germany.[2][4]