Iva Tolić

Tolić's parents are the journalist and diplomat Benjamin Tolić and academic Dubravka Oraić-Tolić. She married Nenad Brgić in 2014 and she is the mother of two children. She has stated publicly that she sees no conflict between religion and science, and describes herself as a believer.

Upon obtaining her doctorate, Tolić did her first Post-doctoral training between 2001 and 2002 at the Niels Bohr Institute, Copenhagen, Denmark working with Lene Oddershede and Kirstine Berg-Sorensen on the microrheology of cells. She then joined the European Laboratory for Non-Linear Spectroscopy, Florence, Italy for post-doctoral research with Prof. Francesco Pavone, working on lymphocyte movement and laser microsurgery on the mitotic spindle. Following her Post-doctoral training, Tolić was appointed as Research Group Leader (W1, equivalent to assistant professor) at the Max Planck Institute of Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics, Dresden, Germany in 2005 and was promoted to Senior Research Group Leader (W2, equivalent to Associate Professor) in 2010. In 2014, she moved to the Ruđer Bošković Institute, Zagreb, Croatia, being appointed as Senior Research Group Leader and professor of Biology.

Tolić completed her Diploma in Molecular Biology from the University of Zagreb, Croatia in 1996 and her Graduate Studies in Molecular Biology in the group of Nenad Trinajstić, Ruđer Bošković Institute and University of Zagreb, Croatia in 1999. Between 1999 and 2001, she completed part of her PhD work with Ning Wang, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, United States and was awarded her doctorate in Biology in 2002 by the University of Zagreb, Croatia.

Iva Marija Tolić (born 24 June 1974) is a Croatian biophysicist, known for her work on the microtubule cytoskeleton and associated motor proteins. She is currently Senior Research Group Leader and professor of Biology at the Ruđer Bošković Institute in Zagreb, Croatia.