Annette is a lecturer and researcher at the University of Kaiserslautern. Her research interests include semantics of concurrent and distributed programming, with a focus on replication, synchronization, and programming language concepts such as Software Transactional Memory and Replicated Data Structures. Annette was involved in several national and international research projects, including EU-Projects “SyncFree: Large-scale Computation without Synchronization” and “Lightkone: Lightweight computation for networks at the edge”.