Iva Tolic#
| Membership Number: | 6245 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | BIOCHEMISTRY & MOLECULAR BIOLOGY |
| Affiliated section(s): | CELL & DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY |
| Elected: | 2022 |
| Main Country of Residence: | CROATIA |
| Homepage(s): | http://tolic.irb.hr/ |
| ORCID: | 0000-0003-1305-7922 |
| Twitter: | @Toliclab |
| Facebook: | https://www.facebook.com/iva.tolic24 |
| Linkedin: | https://www.linkedin.com/in/iva-toli%C4%87-4a116036/ |
Present and Previous Positions
- 2014 - now Full Professor and Senior Research Group Leader (with tenure since 2019), Ruder Boskovic Institute, Zagreb, Croatia
- 2010 - 2014 Senior Research Group Leader, Max Planck Institute of Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics, Dresden, Germany.
- 2004 - 2009 Research Group Leader, Max Planck Institute of Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics, Dresden, Germany.
- 2003 - 2004 Postdoctoral researcher, LENS – European Laboratory for Non-Linear Spectroscopy, Florence, Italy.
- 2001 - 2002 Postdoctoral researcher, Niels Bohr Institute, Copenhagen, Denmark.
Fields of Scholarship
- Mitotic spindle
- Mitosis
- Biophysics
- Meiosis
- Mechanobiology
- Microtubules
- Cell division
- Cytoskeleton
- Microscopy
- Motor proteins
Honours and Awards
- Membership/fellowship:
- 2020 Elected associate member of the Croatian Academy of Sciences and Arts
- 2018 Elected EMBO member
- Major prizes – national and international:
- 2019 ERC Synergy Grant
- 2017 Ignaz L. Lieben Award of the Austrian Academy of Sciences
- 2017 Award of the Croatian Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology for outstanding contribution to the development of molecular life sciences
- 2016 Croatian Women of Influence Award
- 2015 National Science Award of the Republic of Croatia
- 2015 European Biophysical Societies Association (EBSA) Young Investigators' Medal and Prize
- 2014 ERC Consolidator Grant
- 2014 Order of Danica Hrvatska for science, outstanding contributions to science and its promotion in the Republic of Croatia and the world
- 2014 European Life Science Award in the category Investigator of the Year
- 2014 Chosen by the journal Cell as one of 40 scientists from around the world working in diverse biological fields, "40 under 40"
