| Ljiljana Paša-Tolić | |
| Workplaces: | Pacific Northwest National Laboratory National High Magnetic Field Laboratory |
| Alma Mater: | University of Zagreb |
| Thesis Year: | 1992 |
| Fields: | Mass spectrometry Proteomics Metabolomics |
Ljiljana Paša-Tolić is a Croatian research scientist who is a research fellow in Functional and Systems Biology at the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory. She is responsible for developing capability in mass spectrometry at the PNNL Environmental Molecular Sciences Laboratory. Her research looks to develop analytical techniques to modify protein abundance.
Paša-Tolić studied chemistry at the Faculty of Science, University of Zagreb.[1] She remained in Zagreb for graduate research, specializing in physical organic chemistry.
She completed post-doctoral research at the National High Magnetic Field Laboratory under the direction of Alan G. Marshall.[2] She developed a fourier-transform ion cyclotron resonance spectrometer to study biopolymers. She then moved to the PNNL as a postdoctoral fellow in Richard D. Smith's laboratory in1995.
Paša-Tolić is an expert in mass spectrometry and the development of analytical methods to understand molecular processes. She developed sophisticated modalities of mass spectrometry to investigate the polymerases found in plants. Her research showed that the polymerases found in Arabidopsis are actually derivatives of a polymerase found in eukaryotes.[3]
Paša-Tolić was included in the 2021 and 2024 Analytical Scientist Power List.[4] [5] She received the Jochen Franzen Award from the International Mass Spectrometry Foundation in 2024, for "outstanding contributions to innovations in structural, spatial and/or separation analysis with mass spectrometry”.[6]
Her publications include: