Pia Pužar Dominkuš holds a Biochemistry degree from the Faculty of Chemistry and Chemical Technology at the University of Ljubljana (UL). After her graduation she worked in the research field of HIV related neurodegeneration and extracellular vesicles. Currently she is a PhD student of Interdisciplinary Doctoral Programme in Biomedicine, at the Faculty of Medicine, UL as well as junior researcher at the Medical Centre for Molecular Biology (MCMB) and habilitated teaching assistant at the Institute of Biochemistry, MF UL. Her research topic is cancer genomics and molecular mechanisms in gastric cancer.
She is a member of Slovenian Biochemical Society, Genetics Society Slovenia and Slovenian Society of Human Genetics.