Barbara Hribar-Lee studied chemistry at University of Ljubljana, Slovenia. She received her Ph.D. from the same university in 1998. In 2000–2001 she performed postdoctoral research with Ken A. Dill at the University of California, San Francisco. She is currently a professor of physical chemistry at the Faculty of Chemistry and Chemical Technology (FCCT), University of Ljubljana. Her research is in the fields of statistical mechanical theories of water and hydration, partly quenched systems, solutions of (poly)electrolytes, and intermolecular interactions and their role in the stability of protein solutions.