She is a professor of computer science at Purdue University.
[1] Hambrusch earned an engineering diploma from TU Wien in 1977, and completed a Ph.D. in computer science at the Pennsylvania State University in 1982.
[1] Her dissertation, The Complexity of Graph Problems on VLSI, was supervised by Janos Simon.
[2] She has been a faculty member at Purdue University since 1982, and was head of the computer science department there from 2002 to 2007 and again from 2018 to 2020.
[3] Hambrusch was named as a 2020 ACM Fellow, "for research and leadership contributions to computer science education".