Matea Žilak graduated from the Information and Communication Technology study programme at the Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computing, University of Zagreb (FER) in 2017. Since September 2017, she has been employed as a teaching and research assistant at the Department of Telecommunications at FER, where she is currently pursuing her PhD. She has worked as a project associate on several national and international scientific and Erasmus+ projects in the field of ICT accessibility and digital inclusion. Her professional and research activities are in the field of accessibility of new technologies with a focus on augmented reality. She is a member of the professional organization IEEE.