Her main research subjects are phase-field modeling of multicomponent and multiphase materials, multiphysics and multiscale
microstructure simulation, high-performance materials simulation, and advanced data processing and data analysis.
She has developed material models and a simulation framework Pace3D to describe phase transformation and microstructure formation processes on the micrometer length scales and incorporating multiple physics such as mass and heat transfer, thermo-chemo-mechanics, fluid flow and electro chemistry.
Recently she is involved in the development of data science methods as integral part of the novel research data infrastructure Kadi4Mat. Her extraordinary research success was honored with a number of awards, the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany in 2019, the Gottfried-Wilhelm Leibniz prize of DFG in 2017, the research prize 2007 of the state Baden-Württemberg, the Materials Science and Technology Prize 2005 of FEMS and the Richard-von-Mises prize 2002 of the GAMM society.