She is a professor of physics at Stanford University, working there on supergravity, string theory and inflationary cosmology.

In 2017 she was awarded Lorentz Chair position at the University of Leiden,[2] and became a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

This mechanism provided a possible theoretical explanation of the anomalously small value of vacuum energy (cosmological constant) and a description of the present stage of the accelerated expansion of the universe in the context of the theory of inflationary multiverse[13] and string theory landscape.

[14] After the discovery of the KKLT mechanism, her interests shifted towards investigation of cosmological implications of supergravity and string theory.

This is a broad class of versions of inflationary cosmology which provide one of the best fits to the latest observational data.