Ana Marija Grbanovic is a Postdoc Research Fellow at the Centre for Heritage Conservation Studies and Technologies (KDWT) of University of Bamberg. She 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. 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.