From 1998 to 2010, she was a research assistant at the Institute of Philosophy at the Humboldt University of Berlin in the department of Rolf-Peter Horstmann.
After completing her doctorate in July 2003 at the Humboldt University with a thesis on Kant's philosophy of nature (Kants Übergangskonzeption im Opus postumum), she held a DFG fellowship from 2007 to 2010 with the project Resistance in Hegel and Peirce.
In the summer semester of 2009, she substituted for Ludwig Siep at the Institute of Philosophy at the University of Münster.
In the winter semester 2009/2010, she held the chair of Birgit Sandkaulen at the Institute of Philosophy at the University of Jena.
After completing her habilitation at Humboldt University in 2010 with the thesis Erfahren und Erkennen.