Caroline Dorn is trained as a geophysicist. She did her Diploma Thesis at ETH on imaging of tectonic features and did her PhD on characterisation of heterogeneous aquifer systems at University of Lausanne, which was awarded with the Faculty prize. Since 2013, she works in exoplanetary science. After a PostDoc at the University of Bern, she started her Ambizione Fellowship in 2017 on the characterisation of exoplanet interiors at the University of Zurich. Since April 2023, she joined ETH as an Assistant Professor.