Vera received her B.Sc. from University of Belgrade (Serbia) in 2007, and her Ph.D. from Caltech in 2013. After completing a postdoctoral fellowship at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, she moved to Princeton University as a Visiting Research Associate in Physics in 2018. In 2019, she joined USC as Gabilan Assistant professor of Physics and Astronomy. Vera is one of the founding members of two large international collaborations, CMB-S4 and the Simons Observatory, where she served on the Executive Committee and as a lead of Likelihood and Theory working groups, respectively, in both instances helping scinence definition of these programs and leading their dark matter science groups. In 2022, Vera received USC Raubenheimer Outstanding Junior Faculty Award and in 2023, she was named a Cottrell Scholar by the Research Corporation for Science Advancement. Her research is supported by NSF and NASA through astroparticle/cosmology and astrophysics theory programs.