Nike is an assistant-professor Celtic Studies at Utrecht University. She is currently in the final stages of her NWO-funded project on medieval Irish orthography, which studies the ways in which scribes tried to downdate the texts they copied using various orthographical conventions and innovations. Between the years 2018 and 2021, she was employed at the School of Celtic Studies of the Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies as an O'Donovan Scholar with her own project on scribal agency in medieval bilingual texts. 

In 2017, she succesfully defended her PhD thesis with honours on historical code-switching in medieval Irish textsat Utrecht University, and she worked as a lecturer in Celtic Studies from 2017-2018. 

Before her PhD project, she completed both her BA Celtic Studies and the Research Master Medieval Studies (track Celtic Studies) with honours at Utrecht University. She spent time at Trinity College Dublin and the Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies during her RMA and PhD and was the organiser of the first ‘Week of the Irish Language’ (Seachtain na Gaeilge) in Utrecht in cooperation with the Irish Club Netherlands. Furthermore, she has done volunteer work as a Research Assistant in the research project ‘The Power of Words in Medieval Ireland’ directed by Dr. Jacqueline Borsje, University of Amsterdam (UvA), and is currently a board member at the A. G. van Hamel Foundation for Celtic Studies.