She is a professor in the Normative Orders Cluster of Excellence at Goethe University Frankfurt.
[1] Imhausen studied mathematics, chemistry, and Egyptology at Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz, passing the Staatsexamen in 1996.
In 2002, She completed her doctorate in the history of mathematics at Mainz under the joint supervision of David E. Rowe and James Ritter.
Eine Untersuchung zu den mittelägyptischen mathematischen Aufgabentexten, was published by Harrassowitz Verlag in 2002 (Ägyptologische Abhandlungen, vol.
[1][4] She is also the author of Mathematics in Ancient Egypt: A Contextual History (Princeton University Press, 2016).