Esther holds an M.Eng in Electronic Engineering, based on her studies in the UK and Germany, including at the Technische Hochschule Darmstadt. She was also awarded an Engineering Prize from the Royal Academy of Engineering, and presented the Institute of Engineering and Technology (IET) Faraday Lecture "The Digital World" to live audiences reaching 20, 000 across the UK, Europe and North America. Her subsequent post-graduate research resulted in the development of a single-electron memory device operable at room temperature. On this basis, she was awarded a PhD in microelectronic engineering from the University of Cambridge (UK).

Following academia, Esther gained hands-on experience of industrial R&D in Nortel Networks. A subsequent role at a technology consultancy in Cambridge (UK) triggered her interest in the protection and commercialisation of new inventions in the field of electronic engineering. After training as a patent attorney at a Tier 1 private practice IP firm in Munich, she then moved to Marks & Clerk. Her current role has included an extended foreign secondment, to practice as an in-house attorney for a global engineering company headquarted in Norway. This provided further, direct experience of IP generation and exploitation in a commercial environment.

Esther has thus gained extensive experience of managing international patent portfolios, most notably in the fields of Semiconductor Devices and Telecommunications. In particular, she is experienced in coordinating patent and design registrations globally according to commercial strategies, as well as directly representing clients at the EPO in examination, opposition and appeal proceedings (both defending and opposing).