Vladimir Zebec was born in Budrovec in 1944. He attended high school in Đurdevac but completed a course in mineralogy and petrography at the Natural Science and Mathematics Faculty in Zagreb. In 1970 he was appointed trainee curator in the Mineralogical and Petrographic Museum in Zagreb; from 1986 to 1987 he was acting director, and when the institution was merged with the Croatian Natural History Museum he was manager of the Mineralogical and Petrographic Department.
He did a post-graduate course at Zagreb University, taking his MSc in 1980, with a dissertation on Epidote from Smiljevski Dol by Dunje.
Holding the rank of museum adviser, he manages the Trepce Busovača Collection in the Croatian Natural History Museum, the Meteorites Collection, and the collection just being formed of Calcite from the Donje Orešje Quarry, Medvednica.
For some years he was a part time general mineralogy demonstrator for students of geology and chemistry at the Natural Science and Mathematics Faculty of Zagreb University. For twenty years he lectured in petrography with geology at the Forestry Faculty, Zagreb, and for seven years lectures on mineralogy and petrography at the Earth Technology Faculty in Varaždin. He published some forty scientific and twenty specialised papers. He was engaged in scientific work through the topics of the Mineralogical and Petrological Institute of the NSM Faculty. He deals with the story of morphology of minerals and the links of morphology with chemism and crystallisation conditions, oriented combinations of minerals, particularly sulphides. He completed a specialisation in crystaloptics and crystallometry with Professor Ljudevit Barić. In the last few years he has worked hard on the preparation of the Stari Trg Collection catalogue, as part of a monograph on this world-famed Kosovo mine.

NB. Data taken from the questionnaire, material taken from the Personnel Archives of the MDC, and from an interview recorded on May 29, 2007.