Ina Ni studied Mechanical Engineering (B.Sc.) and Psychology (B.Sc.) at the University of Kassel, as well as Computational Social Systems (M.Sc.) at RWTH Aachen University. During her studies, she worked as a research assistant at university and non-university research institutes. Her interdisciplinary research focuses on the application of computational methods on topics in the social sciences.

She has been a researcher at the FZI Berlin branch since 2024. In the Information Management & Analytics department, she investigates social sentiment in the SoSeC project on the basis of survey and social media data. She is pursuing her doctorate at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology under Prof. Dr. Christof Weinhardt.