Dr Kolves is Principal Research Fellow at AISRAP, the WHO Collaborating Centre for Research and Training in Suicide Prevention at Griffith University.
She works at the Australian Institute for Suicide Research and Prevention since 2008 and was a Researcher at the Estonian-Swedish Mental Health and Suicidology Institute between 1999 and 2008.
She has a PhD in sociology from the University of Tartu and has contributed to numerous publications on the issue of suicide behaviour and prevention.