She is currently a full professor and head of the NLP section at the Department of Computer Science, University of Copenhagen.

Isabelle Augenstein grew up in South-West Germany, attending a gymnasium in Pforzheim, a city between Stuttgart and Karlsruhe.

She worked under the supervision of Dr. Diana Maynard and Prof. Fabio Ciravegna, writing a thesis on Web Information Extraction using Linked Data.

She was promoted to Associate and eventually Full Professor and Head of the Natural Language Processing Section at the University of Copenhagen, where she still serves in that capacity.

[14][15] Augenstein is one of the founders of Widening NLP, a group seeking to increase the proportion of women and minorities working in natural language processing.