She was awarded her PhD in Indonesian/Islamic Studies from the University of Melbourne in 2004, and master degree in Islamic Philosophy from McGill University in 1997. Her current teaching and research areas include Inter-religious Dialogue, Philosophy of Religion, and Islam and Social Media in Indonesia. She is currently involved in a three-year research project titled “Islamic (Inter)Faces of the Internet: Emerging Socialities and Forms of Piety in Indonesia” (2014-2017). Fatimah has recently been inaugurated as Director of Research and Community Engagement at the same university (2015-2019). Her collaboration with Prof. Stefan Hammer of the University of Vienna recently resulted in an edited book, Religious Pluralism and Religious Freedom: Religions, Society and the State in Dialogue (2013).