She completed an undergraduate research project under the supervision of Alex Filippenko, during which she studied Type Ia supernova.
She moved to Harvard University for her graduate studies, where she worked on the deaths of massive stars (including Type II supernova).
[2] Her doctoral research was supervised by Robert Kirshner, and was recognized with the Fireman Prize as one of the most outstanding dissertations at the Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian.
[4] After graduating, she was made a Miller fellow at the University of California, Berkeley, where she worked alongside Filippenko and Joshua Bloom.
[7] In 2018 Modjaz moved to the Max Planck Institute for Astronomy, where she spent two years as a Alexander von Humboldt Foundation Fellow.