With a background in ethnology and cultural anthropology, she has extensive research experience in the field of migration studies and has worked as a project coordinator and manager. Using different methodological approaches, she has conducted several extensive field researches (in Australia, Argentina, Germany, Norway and Slovenia) and presented the results at several conferences and in the form of scientific reports and articles.

Since 2016, he has been working with the Department of Sociology at the Faculty of Arts at the University of Maribor.

Kristina has coordinated groups of researchers at the partner institution in two LLP projects and one project funded by the SEE Transnational Cooperation programme. Independently, she has led two projects on posted workers, funded by the EaSI programme, Progress axis, and is currently coordinating a nationally funded research project on labour mobility. She co-organized the national foresight exercise under the SEEMIG project and has authored, co-authored or co-edited several papers, reports, a handbook and three books on labour migration/mobility. Kristina is also co-editor (since 2024) of the main national academic journal in migration studies, Dve domovini / Two Homelands, and is a former editor-in-chief of the AEMI Journal.

She is a member of Slovenian Ethnological Society, KULA, EASA – European Association of Social Anthropologists, SIEF – International Society for Ethnology and Folklore, and Society for Slovene Studies.

In her work she is dealing with issues of labour migration, labour mobility, especially mobility of artist and cultural professionals, and posted workers, return migration, migration as cultural process, identifications and representation of migrants and other related topics.