Dr Mirjana Mataušić Pišl graduated from the Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, University of Zagreb in 1980. In 1985 acquired the master title in field of Chemistry/Biochemistry at the Faculty of Pharmacy and Biochemistry. In 1995, she got her PhD at the Faculty of Medicine, University of Zagreb, and in 2001 finished postdoctoral study at the Institute of Preventive and Clinical Medicine in Bratislava.
Her professional career began in 1980 as a research assistant in the Department for Biology, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, University of Zagreb, followed by one year working as a veterinary inspector. In 1983 started working at the Institute for Medical Research and Occupational Health as an associate on scientific projects of the Ministry of Science, Education and Sports. Between 2001 and 2008 she served as deputy mayor of Zagreb County. Then she worked as a research associate and head of the unit for laboratory animals at the Institute for Medical Research and Occupational Health.
Currently she is Assistant Minister in charge of the Veterinary and Food Safety at the Ministry of Agriculture and the president of the Croatian Food Agency Management Board.She has led and participated in scientific research projects within the framework of the Ministry of Science, Education and Sports, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, University of Zagreb and the Institute for Medical Research and Occupational Health. Work on the project resulted in the publication of more than 30 scientific and research papers and chapters in various books.
She is a member of Croatian Biological Society, Croatian Toxicology Society, Croatian Immunological Society, the Association for eco-tourism and the protection of endangered plant and animal species, “Green Path”, and a member of the executive board of the association “Education against Breast Cancer.”