In 1973, as a chemical engineering student, she took part in the Athens Polytechnic uprising against the dictatorship.
Agus í i mbun staidéir i réimse na hinnealtóireachta ceimicí, ghlac sípáirt i 1973 i gceannairc Ollscoil Theicniúil na hAithne inaghaidh réimeas na deachtóireachta.