She defended her Ph.D. dissertation in 2012 (thesis subject “Automation of virtual labs development process based on cloud computing”) from ITMO University (Saint Petersburg, Russia). Katerina is a part of the team of International Research and Educational Centre of ICT collaborative type - TROIKA (Technology and Research On Information-driven Knowledge Alliance). In 2014, she has become a part of the group of medical data analysis and development of clinical DSS.