Nicole has been a research assistant and lecturer for architecture and urban planning at the Chair of Computer Science in Architecture since 2014. Her research and teaching interests include the cities of the global South, urban resilience, qualitative research, and sustainable construction. She has also lectured at the Ethiopian Institute of Architecture, Building Construction and City Development in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, and at the Stuttgart University of Applied Sciences. Since 2016 she has been coordinating the interdisciplinary research project "Integrated Infrastructure" between Weimar and Addis Ababa. Nicole was also scientific co-head of the Emerging City Lab - Addis Ababa from 2018 to 2020. Nicole holds an architecture diploma from Bauhaus-Universität Weimar and worked as an architect in Basel, Switzerland, from 2009 - 2014.