She is a freelance urban researcher/architect, a Professor of Gendermediadesign at the University of Applied Sciences in Düsseldorf and head of the Office for Transdisciplinary Research and Cultural Production. She graduated as an engineer for architecture and urban planning at the University in Stuttgart and awarded a PhD with excellence at the University of Dortmund, Faculty of Spatial Planning. She has been visiting scholar at the Maison de Sciences de l'Homme in Paris and at the Office for Contemporary Art in Norway. Furthermore, she participated in international art exhibitions as cultural producer. Her main research areas focus on the linkage of urban theories and gender. She is member of the Women’s Research Network NRW.