Anja Bukovac, a research associate/assistant, was born in Zagreb in 1988. In 2012, she graduated from the Faculty of Science, University of Zagreb. This was also where she defended her doctoral thesis and received a Doctor of Science title in 2020. Since 2016, she has been employed at the Croatian Institute for Brain Research, Faculty of Medicine, University of Zagreb. In 2017, she attended the summer school at the Faculty of Medicine, University of Porto. She has collaborated on domestic and foreign projects, published nine scientific and three professional papers, and contributed a chapter in a book. She has participated in 21 international and domestic conferences. She is a member of The European Association for Cancer Research (EACR) and The Mediterranean Neuroscience Society (MNS). Since 2019, she has been participating in the workshops at the Science Festival and Brain Awareness Week, which has the aim of popularizing science.