She then undertook research in Pisa in Italy and Lausanne in Switzerland before moving to Germany, first joining the Max Planck Institute of Psychiatry in Munich to work with Wolf Singer, and then the University of Ulm.

In 1978, she moved to Frankfurt, initially to join the local Max Planck Institute for Brain Research before inaugurating the chair in Biological Psychology at Goethe University, which she held from 1999.

She then joined the Center for Radiobiology and Molecular Biology as a researcher, subsequently being appointed assistant professor at the Institute of Oil, Gas and Geology in Bucharest.

[1] Her research centred on studies of the way that the human visual system develops from a newborn baby into adulthood, both for healthy individuals and those with disorders in their binocular vision, including amblyopia.

[5] After more than a decade working in Frankfurt, she accepted an invitation to speak in the most recent developments in the understanding of amblyopia, a field where she was particularly respected, at the Department of Biophysics in the Carol Davila University of Medicine and Pharmacy in Bucharest, travelling in mid-2008.