Here she used European Remote-Sensing Satellite synthetic-aperture radar interferograms to monitor surges of glaciers in the Vatnajökull ice cap.
[3] In 2010 Fischer was made a Senior Scientist at the Institute for Mountain Research at the Austrian Academy of Sciences.
[5] She leads the Human-Environment Relationships, High Mountains at the Austrian Academy of Sciences (ÖAW).
Fischer has monitored the mass balance of Hallstätter Glacier, Mullwitzkees (Großvenediger) and Jamtalferner (Silvretta).
[6] In October 2021 during a fieldwork trip to Jamtalferner glacier, she and her colleagues discovered a large cave in the middle of it, which is unusual.