Koraljka Modić Stanke was born in Zagreb in 1980. She graduated in 2006 and received her doctorate degree in 2013 from the Department of Psychology, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Zagreb under the mentorship of professor Dragutin Ivanec. Since 2007, she has been employed as an assistant and since 2013 as a senior assistant at the Department of Psychology, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Zagreb, where she taught the courses Statistics in Psychology I and II, Psychological Practicum I and Psychology of Adoption. During 2017 and 2018, she was an external teaching associate at the Faculty of Teacher Education, University of Zagreb (course Applied Developmental Psychology I) and at the Centre for Teacher Education, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Zagreb (course Psychology of Education). At the Faculty of Law, University of Zagreb, she was employed in 2018 as a postdoctoral student, and from 2019 as an assistant professor, where as a member of the Department of Psychology she teaches the courses Introduction to Psychology, Introduction to Psychology – Seminar, Social Psychology, Social Psychology – Seminar and Service-Learning and Social Interventions. A number of final and graduate theses were prepared under her mentorship, and some of these mentorships resulted in the publication of scientific papers co-authored with  students.

As a member of the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Zagreb, she has actively participated in the scientific project of the Ministry of Science, Education and Sports Integration of Information as the Basis of Complete Behavior and in the research project Cognitive Factors in the Modulation of Pain Perception funded as part of the research grants of the University of Zagreb. Since 2015, she has been involved in the three-year Erasmus+ project of strategic partnerships Europe Engage – Developing a Culture of Civic Engagement through Service-Learning within Higher Education in Europe. Since 2019, as a member of the Faculty of Law, University of Zagreb, she has been actively involved in the international project Higher Education and Community-Engaged Programs: A Strategy to Strengthen Local Capacity Development, as well as the four-year COST action number CA18123 The Pan-European Family Support Research Network. A bottom-up, Evidence-based and Multidisciplinary Approach. Since 2020, it has been included in the three-year project of the European University of Post-Industrial Cities (UNIC), and since 2021 in the Horizon 2020 project UNIC for Engaged Research (UNIC4ER).

Her research interests are related to the areas of psychology of pain, parenting, adoption and service-learning. So far she has published a number of scientific and professional papers in these areas and participated in domestic and international scientific and professional conferences with numerous presentations. She received two awards for her scientific work: Best early-stage researcher papers for 2016 (Belgrade, 2016) and Young Scientists Paper Prize (Klagenfurt, 2010) and was nominated for the Best Poster Presentation Award (Lisbon, 2009). She attended several scientific and professional educations organised in the country and abroad. As a member of programme and organisation committees, she participated in the organisation of several national and international scientific and professional conferences. As an expert associate for service-learning, she participated in several projects financed from ESF funds within the framework of the call Support for the development of partnerships of civil society organizations and higher education institutions for the implementation of service-learning programs, and since 2019 she is the head of the Office for Service-learning at the University of Zagreb.

She is an occasional reviewer of Croatian journals Suvremena psihologija, Revija za socialnu  politiku, Socijalna ekologija, Psihologijske teme, Croatian Journal of Education, Journal of Applied Health Sciences and Management, as well as foreign journals Revista Psicología Educativa, Bordon – Journal of Education and Journal of Child and Family Studies. She has actively participated in the implementation of several projects dedicated to the topic of adoption, held a series of public lectures on current topics in the field of adoption, participated in trainings for experts working with adopted children and their families, and co-hosted mandatory trainings for potential adopters. She is the initiator and co-leader of two service-learning courses (Psychology of Adoption and Service-Learning and Social Interventions), within which she mentored numerous service-learning projects with a number of different community partners.