At the time of the study, she was a research associate at the inav – Institute for Applied Health Services Research. She studied health economics at the University of Bayreuth. She has previously worked with the WidO (Institute for Applied Health Services Research) in Berlin and the IDC research institute at the Wilhelm Löhe University of Applied Sciences in Fürth. Her areas of expertise include economic and regulatory analyses in the healthcare system, as well as health economic evaluations and health services studies.