Andrea Lončarević Vrabec has been a senior assistant in the Department of Inorganic Chemical Technology and Non-Metals at the University of Zagreb Faculty of Chemical Engineering and Technology since April 2025. Her research focuses on biomaterials.

She was born in Đakovo, Croatia, in 1993. She earned her master's degree in 2018 from the University of Zagreb Faculty of Chemical Engineering and Technology under the supervision of Professor Marica Ivanković, PhD.

From February 2019 to January 2020, she worked as an assistant in the Department of Surface Engineering of Polymer Materials. From April 2021 to April 2025, she was a doctoral research assistant in the Department of Inorganic Chemical Technology and Non-Metals. She worked on the Croatian Science Foundation project "Smart drug delivery systems in bone tumour treatment" (SmartCar Project), led by Associate Professor Anamarija Rogina, PhD.

She completed a research stay (doctoral training) at the Polytechnic University of Valencia in Spain from October 2022 to April 2023. She also attended the two-week "Drug Delivery Summer School" at DTU Health Tech in Denmark in August/September 2023.

She earned her PhD in 2025 from the University of Zagreb Faculty of Chemical Engineering and Technology under the supervision of Associate Professor Anamarija Rogina, PhD and Professor Gloria Gallego-Ferrer, PhD. Her dissertation was titled "Chitosan-based microspheres as drug delivery systems".

In 2025, she received a L'Oréal-UNESCO For Women in Science fellowship.