Katerina Vriza studied electronics engineering (Hellenic Airforce Academy) and chemistry (University of Patras) in Greece. She then moved to the UK for undertaking a Master in Green Chemistry and Sustainable industrial technology at the University of York under the supervision of Prof. James Clark. After than she stared her PhD in Liverpool, working at the Materials Innovation Factory in collaboration with the Cambridge Structural Datacenter using Computational Chemistry and Machine learning approaches for accelerating the discovery of functional molecular materials. Her PhD advisor was Dr Matthew Dyer.

Currently, she is a research fellow at the iPRD institute of the University of Leeds, working on a inter-disciplinary project, namely Nanoman, aiming to develop novel autonomous systems to synthesise polymer nanomaterials and quantum dots in continuous flow.