Lina Iskra Vugdelija, born in Brežice, Slovenija (1991) where she attended primary school and gymnasium. After finishing secondary education, she enrolled in Faculty of Medicine at the University of Ljubljana, and graduated in September 2018.
In the final year of her studies she received the Faculty Prešeren's acknowledgement for her research work under the mentorship of Prof. Mojca Kržan (Head of Institute of Pharmacology and Experimental Toxicology, Faculty of Medicine, University of Ljubljana), titled Basic features of dopamine reuptake into the astrocytes of newborn rats.
She is currently completing a post-graduate traineeship at the Department of Neurosurgery, San Raffaele Hospital in Milan, Italy.