Milica was born and raised in Serbia. She finished her bachelor studies in Biology, module Molecular biology and physiology, at the Faculty of Biology, University of Belgrade. She continued her master studies in Experimental Biomedicine at the Department of Comparative Physiology and Ecophysiology, also at University of Belgrade. She completed her master in 2018, with the master thesis “Effect of short term fasting on the expression of glucose transporters and glycogen content in rat hypothalamus”, and recently became a member of ITN TREATMENT project as a PhD student.