Iva Tolic - Curriculum Vitae#
Education:
- 2002 PhD, University of Zagreb, Croatia, Biology
- 1996 Diploma, University of Zagreb, Croatia, Molecular biology
Scientific career:
- 2014 - now Ruder Boskovic Institute (Zagreb, Croatia), Full Professor and Senior Research Group Leader (with tenure since 2019)
- 2004 - 2014 Max Planck Institute of Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics (Dresden, Germany), Research Group Leader and Senior Research Group Leader
- 2003 - 2004 LENS – European Laboratory for Non-Linear Spectroscopy (Florence, Italy), Postdoctoral researcher
- 2001 - 2002 Niels Bohr Institute (Copenhagen, Denmark), Postdoctoral researcher
Projects:
- 2020 - 2026 ERC Synergy Grant "Molecular origins of aneuploidies in healthy and diseased human tissues"
- 2019 - 2022 European Structural and Investment Funds Grant "Innovative microscopy protocols for interdisciplinary research in biomedicine"
- 2015 - 2020 ERC Consolidator Grant "A new class of microtubules in the spindle exerting forces on kinetochores"
- 2007 - now research grants from the Croatian Science Foundation (2 PI, 1 Co-PI), 1 grant from the European Social Fund (Co-PI), 1 grant from the Unity Through Knowledge Fund (Co-PI), 1 grant from the Human Frontier Science Program, and 6 grants from German Research Foundation
Publications:
91 papers in peer-reviewed journals, 6998 citations, h-index 36 (Google Scholar).
Invited talks:
More than 150 invited talks (43 in last five years) at conferences and research institutions including:
- Paris Cytoskeleton Day, Paris, France - virtual, 2021 (Keynote talk).
- 13th ÖGMBT Annual Meeting, Vienna, Austria - virtual, 2021 (Plenary talk).
- Physics Meets Biology, Oxford, UK - virtual, 2021 (Keynote talk).
- ASCB│EMBO Meeting, Washington DC, USA, 2019 (Symposium talk).
- Gordon Research Conference (GRC) on Stochastic Physics in Biology, Ventura, CA, USA, 2019.
- Gordon Research Conference (GRC) on Motile and Contractile Systems, New London, NH, USA, 2017.
