She is director of the Vienna-based Austrian Institute for European and Security Policy (AIES) and a member of the peer board of the Defence Horizon Journal in Austria as well as of the Strategic and Security Policy Advisory Board of the Science Commission at the Austrian Federal Ministry of Defense. Her area of expertise is global system transformation and geostrategy of global and regional actors. Another research focus of hers is the EU’s policy towards Eastern Europe and geopolitics in the Black Sea area.