Coming from Athens, Greece, Dorothea obtained an Integrated Master’s diploma from the School of Applied Mathematical and Physical Sciences, National Technical University of Athens. For her thesis, she employed machine learning algorithms to predict cancer cell survival after exposure to ionizing radiation. Having developed an interest in biosciences, she enrolled in the MSc Molecular Biomedicine at the Medical School, University of Athens, and performed her thesis at BSRC Alexander Fleming. During her stay at the institute, she worked on the potential of gene editing in lung cancer animal models and the characterization of antigen-presenting cancer-associated fibroblasts in NSCLC patients. She joined the Gene Editing Group in February 2023 as a PhD student to investigate the modulation of ubiquitin pathways to enhance prime editing efficiencies.