Schmidt earned a diploma in computer science in 2009 through study at both the
Technical University of Dortmund and the
University of Verona in Italy. She continued at the Technical University of Dortmund for doctoral study in computer science, and completed her doctorate (
Dr. rer. nat.) in 2014 with the dissertation
Coresets and streaming algorithms for the problem and related clustering objectives, jointly supervised by Christian Sohler, , and Gernot Fink. After postdoctoral research at
Carnegie Mellon University in the US and at the
University of Bonn, she took a position at the
University of Cologne in 2019 as junior professor of machine learning. She moved to her present position in Düsseldorf in 2021. ==Selected publications==