In 2002, she enrolled at the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering and Naval Architecture, University of Zagreb, majoring in Materials Engineering, and graduated in 2008 with a Master’s degree in Mechanical Engineering. In 2009, she enrolled in a PhD programe in Materials Engineering. As part of her doctoral studies, she spent six months at the University of New South Wales (Sydney, Australia) researching the influence of microstructure on the fatigue behavior of nanostructured aluminum alloys for the aerospace industry, under Prof. Mark Hoffman. She also conducted nanoindentation material characterization. In 2015, she conducted additional research at the Slovak Academy of Sciences on powder metallurgy materials and sample preparation. In July 2015, she earned her PhD with a thesis titled “Development of Titanium-Magnesium Composites for Biomedical Applications”. Her work resulted in the development of a novel titanium-magnesium composite tailored for dental implants. She has participated in numerous studies on microstructure, mechanical properties, instrumeneted nanoindentation, fractography, and material performance. She contributed to the project “Nanostructured Hard Metals – New Challenges in Powder Metallurgy” and was the lead researcher on an EU IRI project developing cold-formed composites for heat exchangers.