Sandra Križić Roban holds a PhD in art history and is a critic, curator, lecturer, PhD mentor and writer specialising in contemporary art, history and theory of photography, post-war architecture, and politics of public space and cultural memory. She is a senior scientific advisor in tenure at the Institute of Art History (Zagreb), an Assistant Professor of Culture of Memory at the Academy of Fine Arts, Zagreb, and of Photography and Visual Culture at Philosophical Faculty, Osijek. She served as the PI on the HRZZ project Ekspozicija – Themes and Aspects of Croatian Photography from the 19th Century until Today (2020–2024), and is the head of the Office for Photography, a non-profit association dedicated to contemporary photography (Zagreb). She has been awarded a fellowship by the Goethe-Institute, AICA, Styrian Provincial Government, DAAD and Getty International Program.

Sandra authored a number of books, scientific articles and book chapters, published on photography, especially women’s, cultural migration and conceptual photography, trauma and alternative ways of memorisation. Her recent work includes contributions to W.G. Sebald’s Artistic Legacies: Memory, Word, and Image (Amsterdam University Press, 2023) and the co-edited volume Watching, Waiting: The Photographic Representation of Empty Places (Leuven University Press, 2023) with Ana Šverko. She hosted several retrospective exhibitions, as well as extensive thematic exhibitions, both in Croatia and abroad, recently focusing on women’s photography and conceptual photography, among them: Floodlit Room. Women's Photographic Practice in Croatia (Zagreb, 2023), Seeing Differently. Women and Photography in Croatia between 1950s and 1970s (Split, Zadar, 2021); ‘Soft’ Shooting? Women Photography in Croatia (Križevci, 2021, Zagreb, 2020).