She earned her Ph.D. at the University of Copenhagen in Denmark under the supervision of Drs. Jan Engberg and Lars Fugger, where she employed antibody and receptor engineering to develop novel immunological reagents to investigate molecular mechanisms involved in the pathogenesis of multiple sclerosis (MS). Following her Ph.D, work, Dr. Krogsgaard was a postd octoral fellow at Stanford University, where she worked under the supervision of Dr. Mark M. Davis on understanding basic mechanisms of T-cell activation.