After working as a postdoc with Theo Geisel, she became a fellow at the Bernstein Center for Computational Neuroscience Göttingen in 2014 and successfully applied for an independent Max Planck Research Group in 2015, which she currently leads at the Max Planck Institute for Dynamics and Self-Organization in Göttingen. She studies propagation processes in complex systems and the self-organization and emergence of information processing in living and artificial neural networks.