She holds an MA degree in Computational Linguistics and a PhD degree in Educational Sciences. She previously worked at the Fraunhofer Institute for Applied Information Technology (FIT) focussing on aspects related to technology-enhanced learning and was also involved in managing the ROLE project. Since 2014 she has been working at the Welten Institute where she was involved in the management as well as the research for the LACE project and now contributes to the SHEILA project as well as to other European projects. During her PhD project she developed the Evaluation Framework for Learning Analytics (EFLA) and now continues research related to the evaluation of learning analytics tools. She is the vice chair of SURF SIG Learning Analytics.