She conducts research on entrepreneurship under conditions of political instability, demographic change, and weak institutions. She is a co-chair of the Transatlantic Policy Consortium, an affiliated researcher with the Swedish Entrepreneurship Forum, and an Editor of Small Business Economics. Her work has been published in leading economics, political science and management journals, and has been commissioned by government and nonprofit organizations, and has been covered by a wide range of media outlets. Previously, she was a visiting scholar at the Kauffman Foundation, an associate fellow at the Ratio Institute, and a research fellow at the Max Planck Institute of Economics. She holds a PhD from George Mason University.