Karina started her career at Faculty of Law Universitas Gadjah Mada early as an assistant lecturer in 2007. After graduating with a perfect GPA in 2009, she directly assumed the role as Junior Lecturer while taking her Master Degree. Since then, her classes cover many business law topics such as Competition, Investment, Banking, Corporation, and Corporate Crime.

From research perspective, her focus is on the application of business law in today’s society. Her early research and paper were mainly related with Intellectual Property Rights and its relation with digital and creative invention in financial sector, followed by Central Bank Digital Currency for Bank Indonesia. Aside from paper publication, her research was also published as a book chapter about Corporate Social Responsiblity (CSR) and Public-Private Partnership (PPP). She was also included in Government’s law-making process for some Ministries and The House of Representative. Internationally, she is a member of International Society for the Reform of Criminal Law (ISRCL) and has been sharing her research finding and experience in several international conferences in Oxford, Singapore, Ottawa, and Australia.

In regard to support corruption eradication, as an academician, she often involved as an expert witness. Until today, she mainly involves with corporate crime cases, such as cases related with state owned enterprise, corruption in financial sector and crime related shares transfer. This experience is what led her into writing on this topic as her dissertation for her Ph.D. at the University of Sydney today. She is expected to be graduated in 2025.