Before, she was a post-doctoral researcher at the Montreal Institute for Machine Learning (MILA). Between 2010 and end of 2014, Asja was employed both at the Institute for Neural Computation at the Ruhr-University Bochum and the Department of Computer Science at the University of Copenhagen working on her PhD in Machine Learning, which she defended in Copenhagen in 2014. Before, she studied Biology. Bioinformatics, Mathematics and Cognitive Science at the Ruhr-University Bochum, the Universidade de Lisboa and the University of Osnabrück.