During her undergraduate studies Angelaki became interested in biomedical engineering, and started to read biology papers alongside her degree.

[2][3] Here she worked on fluid-filled passages in the inner ear, known as the vestibular system,[1][4][5] which controls our spatial orientation and maintains our posture.

She completed another postdoctoral fellowship at the University of Zurich, where she worked with Volker Henn and Bernhard Hess.

[1][2] In 2011 Angelaki was made the Wilhelmina Robertson Professor and Chair in the Department of Neuroscience at the Baylor College of Medicine.

[9] She identified how the brain integrates information from the rotation and linear movement of the head with its response to gravity.

[13] Angelaki joined the New York University Tandon School of Engineering where she investigates the differences between human brains and artificial intelligence.