She holds PhD and Master Degree from the Weizmann Institute of Science, studying the crystal structure of DNA oligomers. She has completed her Postdoctoral studies at Yale University, studied DNA bending and indirect recognition in protein-DNA interactions. She has been a Visiting Scientist at the Department of Biochemistry, Cambridge University, UK at the Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Columbia University, USA and at the Centre for Integrative Biology, University of Trento, Italy. Her main research interest is the interactions between sequence-specific transcription factors and their DNA binding sites, focusing on the mechanism by which DNA structure contributes to the recognition of particular sites by regulatory proteins.