Katarina Trojacanec was born on 15.02.1986 in Kumanovo, Macedonia. She started her studies at the Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Information Technologies, University "Ss Cyrill and Methodius" in Skopje, Macedonia in 2004 at the Department of Computer Science and Engineering. She graduated at the same faculty on 27.06.2008, with an average grade of 10,00. She defended her master thesis titled "Content based image retrieval system for magnetic resonance images" at the same Faculty in May 2010 under supervision of prof. d-r Suzana Loskovska. She received her PhD degree at the Faculty of Computer Science and Engineering, Ss Cyril and Methodius University in Skopje in January 2018, with her dissertation entitled "Medical Image Retrieval Based on Longitudinal Data for Alzheimer’s Disease".
During her education at the Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Information Technologies in Skopje, she was continuously awarded for her successful studying. As the best student in the generation she was awarded with an "Engineering ring" by the Engineering Institution of Macedonia and with "Gold Coin" by the University "Ss. Cyril and Methodius", Macedonia.
She obtained her initial working experience at the Faculty for Computer Science, European University in Skopje in 2008. She started to work at the Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Information Technologies in October 2008. Her research is focused on image processing, data mining, machine learning, and software engineering.