Tatiana is a Lecturer in Classics at the Australian National University. Prior to this, she was the Moses and Mary Finley Research Fellow at Darwin College, University of Cambridge.

Tatiana is an ancient Greek historian who writes cultural history of ancient science and technology. She specialises in the intersection of ancient Greek religion and ancient mechanics, but has also worked on topics including ancient automata, gender and science in antiquity, ancient pneumatics, and technological animation in Classical antiquity.