[7] Sattler completed her PhD in 1998 under the supervision of Franz Baader[4] at RWTH Aachen University in Germany.

Sattler moved to the University of Manchester as senior lecturer in 2003, was promoted to reader in 2006 and then to professor in 2007.

This research has been important in the development of the Web Ontology Language (OWL)[12] and its use in bioinformatics and molecular biology.

[16] She is the co-author of the textbook An Introduction to Description Logic with Ian Horrocks, Franz Baader and Carsten Lutz.

[1] She was co-recipient with Bijan Parsia [Wikidata] and Matthew Horridge of the best paper prize at the International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC) in 2008[18][19] which subsequently won the SWSA Ten Year award [Wikidata] in 2018 for the highest impact paper from the ISWC proceedings ten years prior.