Ignacija Vlašić was born in Zagreb, Croatia. At 2003 she graduated at the Faculty of Food Technology and Biotechnology, University of Zagreb, Croatia where she worked from 2003-2004 as a Research assistant. From 2004-2010 she worked as a Research assistant/PhD student at the Laboratory for Microbial Genetics, Division of Molecular Biology, Ruđer Bošković Institute (RBI), Zagreb, Croatia. At 2009 she got her PhD in Natural Sciences/Biology/Genetics, Evolution and Phylogeny, at the Faculty of Science, University of Zagreb, Croatia. From 2010-2014 she worked as a Senior research assistant at the Laboratory of Evolutionary Genetics, Division of Molecular Biology, RBI. In 2011 she spent two months at the Institute of Aerospace Medicine, German Aerospace Center (DLR), Cologne, Germany where she worked as an investigator and a team member on NATO project. From 2012-2013 she worked as a Guest scientist at the Institute of Aerospace Medicine, DLR, Germany. From 2013-2016 she worked as a Research scientist, at the University Hospital Cologne, Cologne, Germany while from 2016-2019 she worked as a Research scientist at the Institute of Pathology, University Medical Center Schleswig-Holstein (UKSH), Lübeck, Germany. In May 2020 she habilitated in Molecular Pathology/Pathology at the University of Lübeck, Germany. From 2019 until present Dr.habil. Vlašić works as a Research associate at the Laboratory for Protein Dynamics at the Division of Molecular Medicine, RBI, Zagreb, Croatia.