In the mid-1990s she moved to Germany, working first as a research scientist at the Leibniz Institute for Neurobiology in Magdeburg, and completing a Habilitation degree in physiology at the Otto von Guericke University in 1998.
In the mid-1990s, she relocated to Germany, initially working as a research scientist at the Leibniz Institute for Neurobiology in Magdeburg, and eventually obtaining a Habilitation degree in physiology from Otto von Guericke University by 1998.