Her current research focuses on the economic history of central and southern Africa, especially on the well-being of mining workers, labour migration and human capital. She obtained her PhD at Eberhard-Karls University of Tübingen. From 2014 to 2017 she was a post-doc researcher within the VIDI-Project ‘Is Poverty Destiny? Exploring Long Term Changes in African Living Standards in Global Perspective’ at Wageningen University.