Iva Tolić: biophysicist
Iva Tolić is a Croatian biophysicist , known for her work on the microtubule cytoskeleton and associated motor proteins. Iva Tolić was born in Zagreb in 1974. She was doctorate in 2002 at the University of Zagreb. She worked at the Niels Bohr Institute in Copenhagen and at the University of Florence. Since 2004, she was the head of the research group at the Max Planck Institute for Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics in Dresden, and since 2014 she is a Senior Research Group Leader and a scientific consultant at the Ruđer Bošković Institute in Zagreb, Croatia. She is married and she is the mother of two children. She was awarded several awards including Lieben Prize (2017), National Science Award of the Republic of Croatia (2016), Croatian Women of Influence Award (2016), Special award of the Ruđer Bošković Institute for outstanding contribution to the scientific excellence and international recognition of the Institute (2015), European Biophysics Societies Association Youn
