She advises the German Federal Government, and her expertise was and is often sought in interviews and television appearances, especially during the Russian invasion of Ukraine.
[2][3] Fischer completed her doctorate in 2002 with a thesis about The Importance of Identity Discourses for Russian Foreign Policy at the Goethe University Frankfurt.
[5] She has worked as a Senior Fellow of the East Europe and Eurasia Research Group of the German Institute for International and Security Affairs in Berlin since May 2021.
[2] Fischer has been a member of the Executive Board of the German Association for East European Studies (DGO) since 2014 and its Managing Director since 2021.
since 2015, and a member of the advisory board of the "FES Regional Office for Cooperation and Peace in Europe" of the Friedrich Ebert Foundation in Vienna since 2016.