Jana is an Assistant Professor (tenure-track) at the Erasmus School of Economics, Erasmus University Rotterdam. She is part of the Behavioral Economics group at the Department of Applied Economics.

Jana's research, focuses mainly on the dark side of human social behavior, such as group biases, antisocial behavior, tax avoidance, and behavior under acute stress. She runs economic experiments (lab-in-the-field, lab, field, and online) to study how social and institutional environment affect these types of behaviors.