Ana Marija Grbanovic is a Postdoc Research Associate/Principal Investigator for the German Research Foundation - DFG-funded international research project Iranian Medieval Wall Paintings (IWP), at the Centre for Heritage Conservation Studies and Technologies (KDWT) of University of Bamberg. She was previously PostDoc Fellow of the Women Scientists' Representatives Office of University of Bamberg at the Centre for Heritage Conservation Studies and Technologies (KDWT). Grbanovic was a Research Associate and PhD candidate in History of Islamic Art and Archaeology at the University of Bamberg. Her PhD work titled: Ilkhanid Stucco and Tile Revetment in Iran; circa 1300. Function, Meaning and Aesthetic Principles, was supervised by Professor Lorenz Korn (first supervisors) and Professor Scott Redford (London, SOAS; second supervisor). Grbanovic obtained her MA degree in History of Art and Architecture of the Islamic Middle East at the University of London’s School of Asian and African Studies (SOAS) in 2014. Her MA dissertation titled: A Re-examination of the Ilkhanid Buq’a Pir-e Bakran’s Decoration and its Aesthetics was supervised by Professor Doris Behrens Abouseif. Grbanovic obtained her BA in Preservation of Artistic and Architectural Heritage from the University of Udine in 2012 with the BA dissertation researching Ottoman mosques in Bosnia-Herzegovina.