Dima completed her PhD in 2012 at the University of Bath studying the role of alpha-synuclein in Parkinson's disease. Following this, she worked as a lecturer in the school of pharmacy at AL-Baath University, Syria for six years. Dima joined UCLan in 2018 as a fellow researcher at the University of Central Lancashire to pursue a career in academia/research and in 2019 she started her role as a lecturer in physiology and pharmacology in the school of Pharmacy and Biomedical Sciences.