Currently, Ekaterina is employed in the COMMA research project, funded by Business Finland and industry partners, which studies how safety and security-based value is created through the entire system lifespan and how new business is developed from the identified value in a mobile machine context. Ekaterina's research task brings a customer perspective to the project by studying how customers experience risk along their journey with the manufacturers, their machines, and value-added services.

Furthermore, Ekaterina is a part of the LSR-funded DESINEX (Designing Circular Economy Experiences) project and a larger CIRCEX consortium funded by the Research Council of Finland. The projects delve into the emergence and role of human experiences in the circular economy, studying how the experiences of diverse stakeholders within circular economy ecosystems affect their engagement with circular economy practices and how these experiences can be designed to encourage different stakeholders, from consumers to different businesses along the material circulation journey, to participate more readily in the circular economy efforts.

She is also working on several articles related to her research interests and finalizing publications from her doctoral research project on strategic CX management in b-to-b firms. The project identified connections between CX management activities and target experiences as a part of systematic attempts at creating differentiating CX.