Zerbes read mathematics at the
University of Cambridge, earning first class honours in 2001. She completed a Ph.D. at Cambridge in 2005; her dissertation,
Selmer groups over non-commutative p-adic Lie extensions, was supervised by
John H. Coates. While still a graduate student, she became a Marie Curie Fellow at the
Institut Henri Poincaré in Paris, and after completing her doctorate she undertook postdoctoral studies as a Hodge Fellow at the
Institut des Hautes Études Scientifiques near Paris, as a Chapman Fellow at
Imperial College London, and (while working as a lecturer at the
University of Exeter beginning in 2008) as a postdoctoral fellow under the support of the
Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council. She took another lectureship at
University College London in 2012, and was a professor there from 2016 until 2021. Zerbes also serves on the council of the
London Mathematical Society. Since 1 January 2022 she is a full professor of Mathematics at ETH Zürich. ==Recognition==