The title of her dissertation was "The Future Sea-Level Contribution from Antarctica - Projections of Solid Ice Discharge".
[4][2] In 2010-11 she took part in scientific expeditions to Antarctica aboard the research vessel Polarstern, operated by the Alfred-Wegener-Institute.
In 2013 and 2014, she worked as a post-doc at the Stanford University's Carnegie Institution for Science[4] and at PIK.
She won the German Physical Society's Karl Scheel Prize in 2017 for her work on the impact of climate change on sea levels and the Antarctic ice sheet.
[6][4] In 2017, she won the European Geosciences Union's Outstanding Early Career Scientist Award for her work linking glaciology and climate change.