As a student, she represented the university team in cross-country skiing and sport orienteering and worked as an official English interpreter at the 1980 Olympic Games and the 1984 International Geological Congress.

[6] By nomination by the Danish Research Council, she was included in the AcademiaNet Expert Database for Outstanding Women in Academia.

From 2003 to 2004, she worked as Senior Researcher at the United States Geological Survey in Menlo Park, where she was earlier an annual 3–4 month visitor since 1995.

In 2005, Artemieva got the position of Associate Professor at the University of Copenhagen, funded by her research grants of 2005–2006 and 2007–2009 of Carlsbergfondet, Denmark.

[full citation needed] In 2010, Artemieva was one of six winners of the open-call Freja Grant of the University of Copenhagen in Natural Sciences.

[17] In 2019–2020, Artemieva was a visiting professor at Stanford University; her sabbatical stay funded by the Royal Danish Academy of Sciences and Letters was disturbed by the COVID-19 pandemic.

[26] She has taken an active role in several large-scale international and U.S. scientific programs, such as SCEC, EarthScope and CIDER (Cooperative Institute for Dynamic Earth Research).