Ivana Mikolić obtained her Master's degree in Control Engineering and Automatization at the University of Zagreb Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computing (UNIZG-FER) in 2012.
During her studies, she was a member of the Centre for Underwater Systems and Technologies – CUST, KSET, and the Scientific and Sports Competition Committee at UNIZG-FER, where she developed and coordinated various projects. She was also a part of production teams of several cultural projects and institutions (Motovun Film Festival, World Festival of Animated Film – ANIMAFEST ZAGREB, SC Culture of Change, International Festival of Developing Theater – GANZ New Festival, etc). From 2012 to February 2015 she worked in Hulahop Ltd as a producer of the ANIMAFEST ZAGREB festival.
Since March 2015 she is a Project Manager of scientific and research projects of Laboratory for Underwater Systems and Technologies – LABUST and Laboratory for Robotics and Intelligent Control Systems – LARICS at UNIZG-FER. She has been involved in EC Horizon 2020, Interreg, and FP7, NATO SfP, national, and ONR/-G projects related to robotics such as EXCELLABUST, subCULTron, CADDY, ASSISIbf, EUROFLEETS 2, MORUS, etc.
From September 2018, she is, together with Prof. Stjepan Bogdan, a coordinator of H2020 project AeroTwin.
She is a part of the International Interdisciplinary Field Workshop of Maritime Robotics and Applications Breaking the Surface - BTS Organizing Committee since 2009, and Chair since 2012. In 2019, she started Aerial vehicles end-user workshop DroneDays with her colleagues from LARICS. In 2018, she was the Local Arrangement Chair of the 26th Mediterranean Conference on Control and Automation and the 11th IFAC Conference on Control Applications in Marine Systems, Robotics, and Vehicles – CAMS 2018. She is IEEE OES University of Zagreb student branch chapter Advisor and in 2020 Treasurer of the IEEE Croatia Section.
In 2020, she received the stipend International Visitor Leadership Program (IVLP), U.S. Department of State’s premier professional exchange program.