From 2016 to 2018, Anna Szirmai worked at the Artpool Art Research Center. As of 2023, she is a researcher in the Research Department of the Central European Research Institute for Art History.
In 2020, she received her PhD from the Doctoral School of Literary Studies, Faculty of Humanities, Eötvös Lóránd University. In her dissertation, she discussed experimental trends in Italian poetry in the 1960s and 1970s. Presently, her research focuses on trends in 1970s feminist experimental art (visual and sound poetry, body art, performance art), with a special emphasis on Central European artists.
Within the projects of the Research Department, she is currently involved in the processing of the László Beke Archives.