Her main research interest is in international relations and international political economy with a special focus on environmental politics and trade cooperation. She obtained her PhD at ETH Zurich in 2009. Her PhD research was part of the Swiss National Center of Competence in Research (NCCR) „Challenges to Democracy in the 21st century“. Before joining the university of Salzburg, Gabriele was a postdoctoral researcher in the “International Political Economy” group of Thomas Bernauer at the Center for Comparative and International Studies (CIS), ETH Zurich and a Fritz Thyssen Fellow at the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs at Harvard University for the academic year 2011/2012. She teaches courses in international politics as well as on methods for empirical research in the social sciences on Bachelor, Master and PhD level.