Caterina studied Law at Humboldt University of Berlin (HU), where she is also obtaining a degree in Art History and Cultural Studies. During her legal clerkship at Kammergericht Berlin, she worked, inter alia, at the German Embassy in Harare, Zimbabwe. In her doctoral dissertation at HU, Caterina examines the case for state-contingent debt instruments for sovereigns from a legal perspective. She contributes to the ERC project by focusing on sovereign debt contracts as a reflexive medium within the international financial architecture.