Dimitra studied physics at the University of Thessaloniki and earned a M.Sc. in materials science. In 2013, she moved to Berlin to pursue research opportunities in the fields of plasmonics and spectroscopy, earning her Ph.D. at the Technical University of Berlin and then carrying out post-doctoral research at the Leibniz-Institut für Analytische Wissenschaften - ISAS - e.V. She is currently an editor at Wiley.