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Nina received a Diploma (MSc) in Geophysics in 2007 from the Westphalian Wilhelms University of Muenster, Germany, and her PhD in Marine Geotechnics in 2011 from MARUM-Center for Marine and Environmental Sciences at the University of Bremen, Germany where she worked on the “Geotechnical investigation of sediment remobilization processes using dynamic penetrometers”. She was a postdoctoral fellow in 2011 in the marine geotechnics group at MARUM and from 2012-2013, in the physical oceanography group at Dalhousie University, Halifax, Canada, before being appointed assistant professor in the Charles E. Via, Jr., Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Virginia Tech in Fall 2013. She was appointed associate professor in 2019. In August 2023, she joined the University of Florida’s Engineering School for Sustainable Infrastructure and Environment as associate professor. Her research focuses on coastal and marine geotechnics including instrument and method development, the geotechnical investigation of subaqueous sediment dynamics and coastal erosion, beach dynamics and coastal evolution in the context of climate change, navigation channel deepening and maintenance, beach trafficability, and geotechnical site characterization in coastal environments for naval applications and energy harvesting developments.