Martina Kocijan graduated with high honours in 2018 with the Vjera Marjanović Krajovan award for the best Material Science and Engineering graduate student at the FCET, University of Zagreb. Within the Erasmus+ program, she spent six months at the FCUP, University of Porto, Portugal, where she worked on the research entitled "C3N4-based nanohybrids for photocatalytic applications." She holds PhD degree (2023) from the FAMENA, University of Zagreb. Her doctoral thesis contributed to establishing the correlation between the structural, optical, and morphological characteristics of TiO2@rGO composite nanoparticles and their photocatalytic properties. During postgraduate doctoral studies, under the Erasmus+ program, she spent six months at the Jožef Stefan Institute, Ljubljana, Slovenia, where she conducted research entitled "Graphene-based nanocomposites for photocatalytic applications". She was awarded the British Scholarship Trust grant entitled "Metal oxide catalyst supported on a polymeric mesh for use in wastewater treatment: Preparation, characterization, and performance evaluation" for a two-month research stay at De Montfort University, Leicester, UK. She received the Tempus grant from the Hungarian government entitled "Characterization and application of TiO2/rGO composite photocatalysts" for a two-month research stay at the University of Pannonia, Veszprém, Hungary. She received the AMAC UK award for a short research stay at De Montfort University in Leicester, UK.