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Lea Biličić was born on March 1, 1999 in Zagreb. She grew up in Duga Resa, where she completed primary school and high school, while she also completed her education at the Karlovac Music School. In 2017, she enrolled in a double major in ethnology and cultural anthropology and comparative literature at the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences in Zagreb. As part of her Erasmus+ study stay, she spent a semester at the University of Macedonia in Thessaloniki, at the Department of Balkan, Slavic and Oriental Studies. She graduated in 2024 with the interdisciplinary thesis topic Experience of the City of Zagreb in Feuilletons and in Contemporary Lived Experience under the mentorship of dr. Valentina Gulin Zrnić and dr. Lovro Škopljanac. In 2025, she enrolled in a postgraduate doctoral study program in ethnology and cultural anthropology at the same faculty. During her studies, she received additional education and training through various domestic and international programs: summer school Viadrinicum: Urban Collaboratory: Constructing Learning Infrastructures (Germany) and SIEF summer school Postscapes Matter (Croatia), winter schools Key Topics in Urban Studies (the Netherlands) and Lessons From the Past – Solutions for the Future: Humanities in the Face of Global Crisis (Poland), the School of Transitional Justice programme and the research and educational programme How to Think Urbanism and Public Space (Croatia), within which she published the text Moving along Petrinjska Street in Zagreb, the CEEPUS summer school Intimacy in Women’s Reading and Writing (Slovenia), the student workshop Public Spaces of the City of Rijeka and the workshop Pasts and Futures of Public Spaces: Workshop on Ethnographic Methods and Historic Urban Space in Koper, the European Heritage Volunteers project: Rural Heritage Valorization: Creative Communities in Podravina, etc. She worked as a proofreader in the print media. Since 2024, she has been an associate at the Vizkultura online magazine. Since December 2025, she has been employed as an assistant on the project “Transformation of the Post-Industrial City: Space, Community and Work”. She is a member of the Croatian Ethnological Society (HED) and the international network European Route of Industrial Heritage (ERIH), within which she works in the ERIH Young Professionals working group. Her research interests include urban anthropology, sensory ethnography, post-industrial ethnography and literary anthropology.