[2] Early in her career, she served as a UN consultant in Romania and became a Civic Education Project Visiting Faculty Fellow at the University of Bucharest (2000-2003).
[4] Freyberg-Inan's 2004 book What Moves Man critically examines the foundations of realist International Relations theory, challenging its assumptions about human nature and advocating for a more nuanced understanding of state behaviour.
Scholar Patrick James described it as “the best treatment of realism I have seen from an interdisciplinary standpoint.”[5] She has held academic positions at the University of Amsterdam, the Technische Universität Darmstadt, and the University of Edinburgh.
Freyberg-Inan returned to the University of Amsterdam in 2013, where she served as the Director of the Graduate School of Social Sciences (2017-2023).
[6] Freyberg-Inan served as the vice-president of the International Studies Association (2013-2014),[7] as president of its Theory Section (2015-2017),[8] and on the Executive Council of the Central and Eastern European International Studies Association (2010-2016).