Johanna Vanderstraeten's areas of expertise include international entrepreneurship; ambitious (i.e., beyond self-proficiency, such as sustainable) entrepreneurship; organizational sponsorship (e.g., business incubators); micro foundations impacting entrepreneurial intention and behavior; and student-entrepreneurship. She worked at the Entrepreneurship Center of Fundação Getulio Vargas in São Paulo, Brazil, and obtained her Ph.D. at the University of Antwerp. She studied Business Engineering, Didactics for Economics and attended professionalization courses such as ITP, London Business School