Nina Vodopivec is a social anthropologist. Since 2006, she has worked at the Institute of Contemporary History in Ljubljana, Slovenia. Between 2006 and 2008, she managed the Research Infrastructure program; in 2009, she coordinated the international project Dariah, funded by the 7th Framework Program for Research and Technological Development. In 2010, she lectured at the Wittenberg University in Ohio as a Fulbright Scholar. Since 2010, she has worked as a research fellow in the Economic and Social History program. She has studied processes of postsocialist and neoliberal transformations, in particular concerning experiences of work. Her work has encompassed empirical research of the lives of industrial workers, but also social entrepreneurs and social experimentators. She has studied social changes also concerning experiences of time: past, present, and future. She has presented her research results in numerous scientific and expert articles and at conferences in Slovenia and abroad. She has strived for the popularization of science.