Carolin is junior faculty at The Ohio State University and first female professor in the Welding Engineering Program  (since January 2017). Her research interests include welding metallurgy, weld cracking and materials degradation phenomena, weldability of nickel base alloys and stainless steels, dissimilar metal welding and weldability testing.

Before joining OSU in August 2015, Carolin worked as a graduate research associate at the Otto-von-Guericke University Magdeburg in Germany, while pursuing her Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering at the Institute of Materials and Joining Technology (IWF). Carolin is a certified International Welding Engineer (IWE) and earned her Diploma in Business Administration and Mechanical Engineering at the Otto-von-Guericke University Magdeburg, Germany.