Soumaya started her studies at Lille University with a BSc in Cell Biology and Physiology and received her MSc degree in Neuroscience from the Université Pierre et Marie Curie in Paris after completing her Master Thesis in Zürich.
After her graduation she started a 6 months postgraduate internship at the Novartis Institutes for Biomedical Research in Basel. Since mid-April 2018 Soumaya is performing her PhD thesis within the transMed consortium in Prof. François Paquet-Durand's Lab (University of Tübingen) and works on in vivo biomarker development for retinal degeneration.