She is a historian and is currently a visiting researcher at the University of Vienna. She studied History, Political Science and Sociology. She has published numerous works on Austrian contemporary history, including monographs on Christian Broda and Hertha Firnberg, the Vienna Biocenter, the Johannes Kepler University Linz, and the Austrian Patent Office. In 2015, to mark the 70th anniversary, her book "Ein Fenster zur Welt. Das Europäische Forum Alpbach 1945 - 2015" was published.