Martina Drventić Barišin diplomirala je 2013. godine na Pravnom fakultetu Osijek. Doktorski studij Pravo upisala je 2018. godine, a doktorsku disertaciju pod naslovom Prekogranična građanskopravna otmica djeteta obranila je u kolovozu 2022. godine. Položila je državni stručni ispit (2015.), završila program cjeloživotnog obrazovanja za pravnike lingviste (2020.) te pedagoško-psihološko-didaktičko-metodičku izobrazbu (2023.).

Od 2014. do 2016. godine radila je kao stručna suradnica u Službi za međunarodnu suradnju u području zaštite djece i koordinaciju sustava socijalne sigurnosti. Na Pravnom fakultetu Osijek zaposlena je od 2016. godine, najprije kao mlađa istraživačica na projektu Planning the Future of Cross-Border Families: A Path through Coordination (EUFam’s) (2016. – 2018.), a potom kao asistentica u okviru projekta Hrvatske zaklade za znanost Projekt razvoja karijera mladih istraživača – izobrazba novih doktora znanosti (2018. – 2022.). Od studenoga 2022. godine bila je zaposlena kao viša asistentica na Katedri za međunarodno privatno pravo, a od srpnja 2026. godine radi kao docentica na istoj Katedri.

Uz navedene projekte, kao istraživačica sudjelovala je na nizu međunarodnih (UNIPAR, POAM, EUFam’s II, DIGinLaw), regionalnih (SEELS Forced Migrations) i nacionalnih (IZIP) projekata. Bila je članica organizacijskih odbora znanstvenih konferencija (EU Child Doctoral Conference, Doctoral Conference on Sustainable Development), seminara i radionica (UNIPAR, EUFam’s I i II nacionalni seminari, POAM seminari i radionice) te studentskog natjecanja EUChild Moot Court.

Svoja je istraživanja predstavljala na međunarodnim doktorskim i znanstvenim konferencijama u Hrvatskoj i inozemstvu, među kojima se izdvajaju konferencije u Londonu (2025.), Singapuru (2023.), Liverpoolu (2019.), Saarbrückenu (2020.), Rijeci (2020.), Veroni (2019.). Dodatno se stručno i znanstveno usavršavala tijekom boravaka u Ljubljani (2026.), Brnu (2025), Milanu (2022), Saarbrückenu (2018.).

Sudjelovala je u pripremi natjecateljskih timova Pravnog fakulteta Osijek za studentska natjecanja EUChild Moot Court (2018.), Migration Moot Ghent (2022.) i Pax Moot (2026). Aktivno sudjeluje i u programima i događanjima usmjerenima na popularizaciju i promicanje znanosti, među kojima su Festival znanosti i Dani Europe.

Na Pravnom fakultetu Osijek obnaša i koordinacijske dužnosti: koordinatorica je CEEPUS mreže Law & Technology te Erasmus administrativna koordinatorica.

Martina Drventić Barišin graduated from the Faculty of Law Osijek in 2013. She enrolled in the doctoral study programme in Law in 2018 and defended her doctoral dissertation, entitled Cross-Border Child Abduction in Civil Law, in August 2022. She passed the State Professional Examination (2015), completed a lifelong learning programme for lawyer-linguists (2020), and completed pedagogical, psychological, didactic and methodological training (2023).

From 2014 to 2016, she worked as a professional associate in the Service for International Cooperation in the Field of Child Protection and Coordination of Social Security Systems. She has been employed at the Faculty of Law Osijek since 2016, initially as a junior researcher on the project Planning the Future of Cross-Border Families: A Path through Coordination (EUFam’s) (2016–2018), and subsequently as an assistant within the Croatian Science Foundation project Young Researchers’ Career Development Project – Training of New Doctors of Science (2018–2022). From November 2022, she was employed as a senior assistant at the Chair of Private International Law, and since July 2026 she has held the position of Assistant Professor at the same Chair.

In addition to the above projects, she has participated as a researcher in a number of international (UNIPAR, POAM, EUFam’s II, DIGinLaw), regional (SEELS Forced Migrations), and national (IZIP) projects. She has served as a member of the organising committees of scientific conferences (EU Child Doctoral Conference, Doctoral Conference on Sustainable Development), seminars and workshops (UNIPAR, EUFam’s I and II national seminars, POAM seminars and workshops), as well as the EUChild Moot Court student competition.

She has presented her research at international doctoral and scientific conferences in Croatia and abroad, including conferences in London (2025), Singapore (2023), Liverpool (2019), Saarbrücken (2020), Rijeka (2020), and Verona (2019). She has also undertaken academic and professional training and research stays in Ljubljana (2026), Brno (2025), Milan (2022), and Saarbrücken (2018).

She has been involved in preparing Faculty of Law Osijek teams for student competitions, including the EUChild Moot Court (2018), Migration Moot Ghent (2022), and PAX Moot (2026). She also actively participates in programmes and events aimed at promoting and popularising science, including the Festival of Science and Europe Days.

At the Faculty of Law Osijek, she also holds coordination roles as the coordinator of the CEEPUS network Law & Technology and as the Erasmus Administrative Coordinator.