Denise obtained her BSc in Biology and her MSc in Prehistoric Archeology in the lab of Prof. Dr. Marie Besse at the University of Geneva.
She is currently enrolled in the Medical Biology MSc Neuroscience track program at the University of Lausanne. She joined the Neukomm lab as an MSc student where she will create a novel Drosophila axon regeneration model based on spatially restricted optical ablation.