Dr. Nicole Tischler earned her degree in Biotechnology Engineering in 1999 from Mannheim University of Applied Sciences, Germany. Her undergraduate thesis focused on a diagnostic method for heparin-induced thrombocytopenia. In 2002, she began her PhD in Biotechnology at Universidad Andrés Bello under the guidance of Dr. Pablo Valenzuela, studying humoral immune responses to the Andes virus, developing monoclonal antibodies, and identifying viral fusion proteins.

She continued her research with a postdoctoral fellowship at Fundación Ciencia & Vida and the Millennium Institute for Fundamental and Applied Biology. In 2007, she received her first FONDECYT grant and became Principal Investigator of the Molecular Virology Laboratory at Fundación Ciencia & Vida. Since then, her work has been supported by multiple grants (FONDECYT, FONDEF, Basal Funding, ANR-France) and focuses on hantavirus structure and entry mechanisms, as well as membrane fusion proteins in archaea, funded by Volkswagen Stiftung.

Dr. Tischler has supervised 14 professional degree theses, 5 graduate theses, and 3 postdoctoral researchers. She is a member of the Advisory Council of the International Society of Hantaviruses of which she was elected President (2023–2026). In 2019, she received the Ben Barres Spotlight Award from eLife for her scientific contributions and commitment to inclusion in science.