She graduated from Faculty of Food Technology Osijek, University of J. J. Strossmayer in Osijek where currently is attending doctoral study of Food engineering. Since 2010, she has been working in the Croatian Food Agency, first as national assistant coordinator on the IPA Pre-accession programme Preparatory measures for the participation of Candidate and Potential Candidate countries in European Food Safety Authority (EFSA), then as expert associate in the Department for Communications and last two years in the Department for Risk Assessment.

She attended a number of trainings in the field of risk assessment and risk communication with an accent on the exposure assessment, such as BTSF trainings Microbiological risk assessment (Berlin, 2015), Nutrition risk assessment (Rome, 2017), EFSA Crisis Simulation Exercise (Parma, 2015) and visited the German Federal Institute for Risk Assessment (BfR) for three months in scope of the programme Promoting talents and scientific careers (Berlin, 2017).

She participates in work of the EFSA Focal Point network and Communications Experts Network as appointed national alternate member. She is member of the Croatian Society of Food Technologists, Biotechnologists and Nutritionists.