[6] Daou was educated at the Université de Montréal in Quebec, where she studied the atmospheric parameters of variable stars.
Her PhD dissertation in 1989 was titled, Études spectroscopiques et paramètres atmosphériques des étoiles ZZ Ceti.
[7] She then moved to Baltimore, Maryland, in the United States, where she spent nine years working on the Hubble Space Telescope.
[10] She joined the NASA Headquarters in 2006, and has served the institution in a variety of roles, including Education and Public Outreach Program Officer.
[14][15] She has worked as an outreach and education specialist at Ames Research Center[16] and for NASA's grant programs.