Anja Kafka was born on December 1st 1986 in Pakrac. She graduated at the Faculty of Science University of Zagreb in 2011. Her graduation thesis was completed at the Ruđer Bošković Institute. Since 2012, she has been a research assistant at the Department of Biology, School of medicine, University of Zagreb and the Laboratory of Neuro-oncology at the Croatian Institute for Brain Research. In 2012 she enrolled in a PhD program in the field of Biomedicine and Health Sciences at the School of medicine, University of Zagreb. She is the coauthor of 15 published scientific papers and 10 congress abstracts. She participates in courses within the undergraduate study Medical Biology (Medical study in Croatian) and Eucaryotic genome. She is a member of the Croatian Association for Cancer Research (HDIR), European Association for Cancer Research (EACR) and the Croatian Society for Neuroscience (HDN). She speaks English, Italian, French and German.