Atina is a PhD Candidate at the Copernicus Institute of Sustainable Development, Utrecht University. She is currently working on the HOMESCAPES project, a multi-sited study to unpack homes other than human homes in the urban South. Her research investigates how low-income residents make homescapes in Semarang by investigating the groundwater. 

She holds an MSc in International Development Studies from the Department of Social Sciences, Wageningen University. Prior to joining Utrecht University, she worked as a research consultant with various NGOs in Indonesia, concentrating on gender, development, health, and political ecology.