Dr Scholten's academic career started with her PhD project at Maastricht University with the PhD dissertation on the political accountability of EU agencies published by Brill in 2014.) Her first academic article on accountability and independence of regulatory agencies in the EU and US was awarded 2012 Europe Award by the Montesquieu Institute.

Before her current position, she worked as a postdoc and Assistant Professor at Universiteit Utrecht, as a PhD researcher at Maastricht University, and has done a few internships, including the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea in Hamburg and at the Netherlands Institute of International Relations ‘Clingendael’ in The Hague.

She holds a 'specialist degree' in International Relations from the North-West Academy of Public Administration in Saint-Petersburg (2005, with distinction), MSc in International and European Relations and Management from Amsterdam School of International Relations, the University of Amsterdam (2006, with distinction) and LLM in International and European Law from Amsterdam Law School, the University of Amsterdam (2008). Also, she participated in the ‘EU studies’ programme organised by the Aarhus Business School (September - December 2003), selected on the merit by the Danish Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and took the summer course in American Law (2009) offered by the Amsterdam-Leyden-Columbia summer school.

Awards and grants include:

2019 Jean Monnet Network grant by the EU Commission

2019 Students' for society project award by Utrecht University

2016 Veni grant for the research project 'Shared enforcement but separated controls in the EU: how to  make it work for democracy and the rule of law?' (by the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO))

2012 Europe Award for the best scientific article (by the Montesquieu Institute)

2009 Hans Smit Award for the best participant in the Columbia summer program on American Law