[2] She moved to Princeton under Christodoulos Floudas for her PhD, "Novel Global Optimization Methods: Theoretical and Computational Studies on Pooling Problems with Environmental Constraints", which she submitted in 2012.

[5] In 2012 she was awarded a Royal Academy of Engineering Research Fellowship for her postdoctoral training with Efstratios N. Pistikopoulos at Imperial College London.

[10] She has co-authored several publicly available software tools for global optimisation including: She is the director of the Computing & Systems Technology Division of the American Institute of Chemical Engineers.

[15] In 2014 she won the American Institute of Chemical Engineers W David Smith Graduate Student Paper Award.

[16] In 2017 Misener won the Sir George Macfarlane Medal from the Royal Academy of Engineering for excellence in the early stage of her career.