Graduated with a Bachelor of Science (B.Sc. Hons.) in biology and chemistry from the University of Malta and subsequently completed her master’s degree in Drug Discovery and Development (MRes) at Imperial College London. She embarked on her PhD studies in 2019, as a member of Chiappini group within the aim to explore nanoparticles for selective delivery of relatively large biomolecules (such as mRNA) into 3D tissue cultures.