Ekaterina Novokhatko was born in 1991 in Moscow (Russia). She studied History and Literature at the Moscow State University M. V. Lomonosov (2007‒2012), at the French College of Moscow (2010‒2013) and Paris IV (Sorbonne) (2013‒2014). After completing a Master thesis on the iconography of Advent in the Paris missals of 13th–14th centuries at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales (ÉHÉSS) in Paris (2014‒2015), she made her Master in Digital Humanities at the École nationale des Chartes (ENC) in Paris (2015‒2016) and completed an internship on digitizing manuscripts at the Institut de Recherche et d’Histoire des Textes (IRHT) in Paris (2016).