After training as a primary school teacher at PH FHNW, Dominique immediately went on to study educational science at University of Zurich. Her PhD work focused on institutional permeability in structured education systems and educational inequalities. She has worked on major transition-related studies (TRANSITION (PHZH), TIDES (PH FHNW), TREE (UNIBE)) with a focus on the coordination of online questionnaires (survey management) and project communication. In the infrastructure project TREE, she also played a leading role in the digitisation of performance tests in survey settings and the publication of such data.