Mockert, who graduated in Musicology from Humboldt University, Berlin, is a researcher at the Hebrew University's Jewish Music Research Centré. Her studies focus on the liturgical music of Southern German Jews, bringing in an interdisciplinary perspective inspired by philosophical aesthetics, social history, and critical theory.
Mockert has been involved in the joined research projects with the European Center for Jewish Music, Hanover: “From Berlin to Jerusalem and back - The letters of German-Jewish Musicologist Edith Gerson- Kiwi (1908-1992)” supported by the Niedersachsen Foundation and “German Jewish Sacred Musical Intersections” supported by the German-Israel Foundation, in which framework she contributed a study on the early modern community in Munich “Musical Transformation of Southern German Jewish Liturgy. The first Synagogue in Munich 1826-1887.” Mockert has received various grants, among them, the prestigious Minerva fellowship for her PhD project. Mockert is currently writing her dissertation, provisionally titled “Cantor Emanuel Kirschner (1857-1938) - A Biographical Investigation on German-Jewish Musical Intersections”, further exploring the soundscape of Munich’s Jewish community pre-WW-II. The project is advised by Prof. Edwin Seroussi (Hebrew University, Jerusalem) and Prof. Dr. Sarah Ross (Hanover).
Besides her academic career Mockert performs and teaches piano in Europe and Israel. She is studying with Prof. Denis Burstein at the Jerusalem Academy of Music and Dance. Former teachers include Prof. Yaron Rosenthal (Jerusalem) and Galina Iwanzowa (Berlin).
Mockert is a Junior Library Fellow at the Van Leer Institute and resides in Jerusalem.