Charlotte works as a senior project manager at ZSI (Vienna), specializing in EU/EC-related science policy projects with a focus on science diplomacy and international science policy.

She holds a B.Sc. in economics  from the University of Mannheim and Bilkent University, Ankara (Turkey). During her M.A. she specialized in International Relations and in the Sociology of Scientific Knowledge and graduated in Peace and Conflict Studies from Augsburg University and the School of International Service (SIS), American University in Washington, DC. She earned a Ph.D. in science studies from the University of Augsburg (Faculty of Philosophy and Social Sciences), with research stays at the University of Innsbruck (Austria) and Humboldt University in Berlin.