Mateja Starbek graduated medicine in 2000 at the Medical faculty, University of Ljubljana. In 2006 she obtained a master's degree in Biomedicine, in 2010 specialisation in Dermatovenereology and in 2018 PhD in the field of Biomedicine. She is Head of Children's department in Dermatovenereology Clinic of University Medical Centre Ljubljana and takes part in teaching process as assistant at Medical faculty, University of Ljubljana. She is one of the leading dermatologists in the field of paediatric dermatology and psoriasis in Slovenia and one of the lecturers of the School of Paediatric Dermatology, Atopic Dermatitis and in the School of patients with psoriasis treated with biologic drugs. She is a member of the European Academy of Dermatology and Venereology (EADV), European Society for Paediatric Dermatology (ESPD) and the Association of Slovenian Dermatovenereologists (ZSD).