Preethi Aranala Gurumoorthi began her M. Sc. in chemical and bioprocess engineering at Hamburg University of Technology in 2020. She did her master thesis on "Computer-Aided Solvent Design for Microgel Synthesis Processes" at Lehrstuhl für Technische Thermodynamik at RWTH Aachen University. In 2023, she started her Ph.D. studies, focusing on phase transitions of bio-polymer gels for Dr. Pavel Gurikov's group.