Studied industrial engineering and management with special focus on logistics, production planning and management at the "Karlsruhe Institute of Technology KIT" and at the "Ecole Nationale Polytechnique", Grenoble, France. Graduation with a Master of Science degree at the Fraunhofer Institute for Systems and Innovation Research ISI in 2009. Final thesis:  "Multi-criteria evaluation of service-based new business concepts in compressed air systems".

Since February 2010 she has been employed as a researcher at the Fraunhofer Institute for Systems and Innovation Research ISI in Karlsruhe in the Competence Center Industrial and Service Innovations.

Main focus of her research is on monitoring innovative business models in the field of electro-mobility as well as on designing and evaluating sustainable business concepts, on analysing innovation systems concerning energy and resource efficiency and the research for innovation strategies in low-tech industries.