Mutiara is an Australia Awards PhD scholar and a Research Officer at the School of Regulation and Global Governance (RegNet), where she applies an interdisciplinary approach to investigating health equity and access to vaccines in the global south.

Mutiara holds a second master in Digital Media and Society from Uppsala University, Sweden; a Master of Arts in International Relations from Leiden University, the Netherlands (with the Studeren in Nederland Scholarship); and a Bachelor of Social Sciences majored in Health, Environment, and Life Science from Ritsumeikan Asia Pacific University, Japan (with the Ritsumeikan APU Scholarship and Honours Scholarship). Mutiara speaks English, Italian, Japanese, and Bahasa Indonesia.

She has previously worked in international political economy and public health research, as well as with the private and public sectors in Southeast Asia on regional policies and projects, including aviation, sustainable development, poverty and rural development, social welfare, ending violence against women and children, and ASEAN dialogue partnerships. She has worked with ASEAN governments and expert communities in the region, and she has disseminated her research in health diplomacy and pandemic preparedness through media publications.

Her thesis topic is The Political Economy of COVID-19 Vaccine Access in Southeast Asia.