After graduating in 1977 from Dresden University of Technology (Germany) with a specialty in physical electronics, she taught in Lithuania at Kaunas University of Technology, 1977–1983 as head of the Laboratory of Ionic Devices at the Department of Physics and became a professor in 2008. She also interned at the King's College London (1999), Malmö University Hospital (Sweden), for three years, and the P. Scherrer Institute in Villigen (Switzerland).