• University of Cologne, Germany
• Ph.D. (Dr. rer. nat.) in Applied Mathematics
  Graduation: November 2002
• Ph.D. Thesis:  "Meteorological Data Assimilation - Local Analysis and Efficient Numerical Techniques for Constrained Differential Optimization"
  
• Advisor: Prof. Dr. Ulrich Trottenberg
  

• Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn, Germany
• Course of study: Mathematics with a major in stochastic analysis
  Graduation: August 1995, Diplom-Mathematikerin (diploma in mathematics)
  Diploma Thesis: "Einige neue Ergebnisse zu Dirichletformen auf dem R^d" (in german)
  
• Minor: Operations Research
• Advisor: Prof. Dr. Michael Roeckner

Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel      
Prof. Achi Brandt

Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, USA
Prof. Shlomo Ta'asan