Katja Triller Vrtovec has completed her law studies at the Faculty of Law of the University of Ljubljana in 2002 and has passed the state bar exam in 2004. From 2004 to 2010 she has been employed as a Senior Judicial Advisor at the Supreme Court, and from 2010 to 2017 as an Advisor to the Constitutional Court. Since 2017, she has been working as a secretary in the Legislative and Legal Services of the National Assembly. In 2003, she has completed her master’s degree (LL. M.) at the University of Houston (USA). In 2008, she has defended her doctoral dissertation at the Faculty of Law, University of Ljubljana, entitled Ethical Aspects of Patenting Embryonic Stem Cells. She has done scientific research at the Max Planck Institute for Intellectual Property and Competition Law in Munich (Germany) and at Stanford University in Palo Alto (USA). In 2019 she has been elected Assistant Professor in the field of Public Administration and Administrative Law at the European University Faculty of Law.