[3] Between 1957 and 1970, she completed her primary education in Balsthal and passed the High school diploma in Switzerland at the lycée in Solothurn.

In 1975, she graduated studying physics at University of Basel, where she was the only woman in her year.

In 1982, she returned to Switzerland, where she gained a position at the University of Bern, in the space exploration and planetology department.

In 1996, she passed her university accreditation in the field of solar system physics and became project manager of the project -2001.html ROSINA (Rosetta Orbiter Spectrometer for Ion and Neutral Analysis) concerning the comet 67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko.

In 2015, she received the prize of the Commerce and Industry association of Bern 2015 for her mission in the Rosetta project but also for her commitment to young people.