Luka Kropivnik graduated in Slovene and Russian Studies at the Faculty of Arts, University of Ljubljana. He continued his studies at the Department of History and the Department of Slovene Studies at the Faculty of Arts of the University of Ljubljana, and at the Department of Ethnology and Cultural Anthropology and the Department of Comparative Literature and Literary Theory. In 2022, he completed his Master's degree in Slovene Studies and History with the thesis Ivan Hribar between Politician and Writer (mentors: prof. dr. Urška Perenič and prof. dr. Božo Repe, co-mentor: prof. Milena Mileva Blažić).

For his master's thesis Ivan Hribar between Politician and Writer, he received the Dean's Prize of the Faculty of Arts of the University of Ljubljana.

During his studies at the second cycle, between November 2020 and March 2021, as part of the Erasmus+ training, he was a trainee at the Institute of Slavic Studies of the Alpe-Adria University in Klagenfurt, and between June and September 2021 at the Institute of Ethnology and Folklore in Zagreb, where he was actively involved in the ERIM project under the mentorship of dr. Marijana Hameršak.

During his second cycle studies, he was awarded an ASEF scholarship to visit Deakin University in Melbourne between February and May 2023, where he researched the Slovenian community in Australia under the mentorship of Dr Kaja Antlej.

Since October 2023, he has been working as a young researcher at the Institute of Slovenian Ethnology of the Slovenian Academy of Sciences under the research mentorship of Associate Professor Dr. Tatiana Bajuk Senčar and is enrolled in PhD studies at the Faculty of Arts of the University of Ljubljana under the pedagogical mentorship of Associate Professor Dr. Jaka Repič.