Kiana graduated from Macquarie University with a Bachelor of Medical Sciences, majoring in Anatomy and Physiology, in 2025. She is currently undertaking Honours in Neuroscience at UNSW under the supervision of Dr Tertia Purves-Tyson and Associate Professor Gila Moalem-Taylor. Her research investigates the sex-specific effects of raloxifene on inflammasome-related transcripts in the adolescent midbrain of a preclinical model related to schizophrenia.