Her research concerns abstract algebra including the theory of field extensions and algebraic groups.
[2] She is a professor emerita at the University of Göttingen.
Her dissertation, p-Algebren über semilokalen Ringen, was supervised by Ernst Witt.
[3] She completed a habilitation at the University of Regensburg in 1983.
[5] Under her leadership, the society founded the journal Documenta Mathematica.