[3] Robin is currently the general secretary of the International Association for Tibetan Studies.

Her doctoral thesis, submitted in 2003, was supervised by Heather Stoddard [fr] and was entitled: La littérature de fiction d'expression tibétaine au Tibet depuis 1950 : enjeux identitaires ("Fiction Literature of Tibetan Expression in Tibet after 1950: Identity Issues")[7][8][9][10][11] Subsequently, Robin became a professor at INALCO.

[5] She was co-founder of SFEMT (The French Society for Study of the Tibetan World) in 2012 and served as the organisation's president until 2016, when she became vice-president.

[13] In 2012, she was one of 80 "very significant specialists on Tibet" who called on future Chinese President Xi Jinping to intervene to save the Tibetan language from extinction.

[14] In 2016, she told The Guardian that the allegations of poor treatment of the film-maker Pema Tseden were reflective of the way Tibetans are treated by the Chinese authorities and indicated that China was not a state of law.