Carina holds  a bachelor degree in Communication Management (PR & events, Artevelde, 2006) and a master degree in Communication Sciences (New Media and Society, Ghent University, 2011).

Since 2011, Carina is working in the user research department of iMinds-SMIT. She is active in different user-oriented projects; and her main expertise is within the domain of Living Labs. Within the Flemish Living Lab Platform (ICT Living Lab), she is doing research on several cases and coordinating the panel together with the panel management of ilab.o. Carina has gained experience in both quantitative and qualitative methods, such as in-depth interviews, focus groups, surveys and clustering.

For the moment she is involved in the following projects: FLELLAP, Smart Homes, Citadel, Digimeter (ilab.o), SoloMIDEM and CoMobile.