2023 - present                   
Apl. (supernimerary) professor at the University of Duisburg-Essen

2016 - 2023                   
Junior professor at the University of Duisburg-Essen

2014 - 2015                    
Scientific researcher at the Chair of Fluid Dynamics - Institute for Combustion and Gas Dynamics, University of Duisburg-Essen. Post doctorate work in flame tomography

2011                    
Visiting scholar at Stanford University USA, toluene laser-induced fluorescence imaging in an expansion shock tube

2008 - 2011                    
Scientific researcher at the Institute for Combustion and Gas dynamics - Reactive Fluids, University of Duisburg-Essen. Post doctorate work in laser-induced fluorescence imaging

2004 - 2008                    
Doctoral thesis at Imperial College London, UK
Title: Supersonic flow over rectangular-section annular cavities
- Laminar and turbulent flow simulations
- Experimental Schlieren visualization of the flow and time-averaged surface pressure measurements

2000 - 2004                    
First Class Honours Masters (MEng) in Aerospace Engineering, Queen Mary University of London, UK
- Group project: Aerodynamics of racing bicycles, design of the wheels and the full bicylce test rig
- Individual project: Effects of wing tip geometry and blowing on drag characteristics of two-dimensional wing sections in incompressible flows

• Teaching award of the University of Diusburg-Essen 2026
• Editorial member, Progress in Energy and Combustion Science (since 2024)
• Associate editor, Measurement: Energy (since 2023)
• Member of the Combustion Institute's Women in Combustion Committee
• Member of The Combustion Institute - German section
• Member of the Center for Nanointegration Duisburg-Essen (CENIDE)
• Competitively selected member of the 5th Global Young Faculty (2017 - 2019), an initiative of the Stiftung Mercator in coorperation with the University Alliance Ruhr Research Centre, coordinated by the Mercator Research Center Ruhr in Essen
• Reviewer for several scientific journals, including: AIAA, Applied Optics, Applied Physics, Combustion and Flame, Experiments in Fluids, Optical Engineering, Optical Society of America, Progress in Energy and Combustion (PECS), Royal Aeronautical Journal, Shock Waves 
• Invited talk at Technical University of Darmstadt, Germany (2018), title: Tomography in energy and process technology
• Invited talk at University of Applied Sciences Darmstadt, Germany (2019), title: Computed tomography for instantaneous 3D information to get the full picture
• Invited talk at the Gordon Research Conference - Laser Diagnostics in Energy and Combustion (2019), title: Flame tomography based on multi-simultaneous measurements and best practice in assessing volumetric reconstructions
• Guest editor at Energies journal (2019), special issue title: Tomographic and volumetric diagnostics in flames
• Research visit invitation from Nanjing University of Science and Technology, China (2019)