In Spring 2015, she held a visiting lecturer position at the University College London Interaction Center (UCLIC). In 2013, she obtained her PhD, on her dissertation entitled "Design for Peripheral Interaction", from the Eindhoven University of Technology. With a background in industrial design, her expertise lays in research-through-design in the areas of tangible interaction, peripheral interaction and classroom technologies. She is a member of the steering committee of the conference series on Tangible, Embedded and Embodied Interaction (TEI) and was general chair of the TEI 2016 conference.