Tabea obtained her bachelor’s degree in Biochemistry in 2019 at the Goethe University in Frankfurt am Main. For her bachelor’s thesis, she joined the lab of Prof. Dr. Zoltán Ivics, where she worked on CRISPR/Cas9-mediated gene editing of snRNP70.

She then enrolled in the Master’s program in Molecular Medicine at the Goethe University in Frankfurt am Main. In 2021, she began her master’s thesis in the lab of Prof. Dr. Stefan Müller at the Institute of Biochemistry II. Her research focused on nuclear protein quality control pathways where she aimed to understand the implication of the nucleolus and the SUMO/ubiquitin-network in maintaining cellular proteostasis.

After completing her master’s degree, she continued her work on nuclear protein quality control by starting her PhD in the Müller lab in July 2022.