Luna is an applied microeconomist. She is a lecturer at the Department of Economics at the University of Ulm, Germany. She is also a research associate at the Cluster of Excellence "The Politics of Inequality" at the University of Konstanz, Germany and a research affiliate at the AXA Research Lab on Gender Equality of Dondena Research Center, Bocconi University.

Her research focuses on public & labor economics with particular interest in inequality and intergenerational mobility, political economy of redistribution and gender economics.

Luna joined IZA as a Research Fellow in March 2017.