Manina Biermayer (formerly Mestas) graduated at the Department of Communication of the University of Vienna in 2013. Her master thesis dealt with the advertising effects of branded board games on children and was published in the Journal of Consumer Behaviour in 2016.

Since March 2020 Manina is back as a project assistant (praedoc) to work on the FWF funded research project "Reporting on Suicide in the Nineteenth Century: Large-Scale Content Analysis and an Investigation of Long-Term Imitative Werther Effects" (PI: Florian Arendt).