She graduated in August 1991 with subjects in Evolutionary Biology and in Plant Geoegraphy, with the following works: During her undergraduate studies, she worked as a Student Assistant in the first year biology subject "Overview of the animal kingdom" and on the domestic excursion.
[1] From 1 June 1996 until at least 2004, she was a part-time guest-worker at the Nationaal Herbarium Nederland, Universiteit Leiden branch, where she was carrying out research that resulted in her doctoral thesis.
From 1 March 1998 she worked in Rotterdam as an Application Designer Cobol in the Salaries and HR department for the information and communications technology company Roccade Civility.
Her thesis was entitled Systematics of Aporosa (Euphorbiaceae), and it was published in the journal Blumea in that year, 2004.
"[2] Petra Hoffman, in her 2006 review, writes that "[Schot] did not dodge difficulties as is unfortunately so often seen in other [taxonomic] keys.