Mirjana Liović obtained her BSc in Molecular Biology and Physiology at the University of Belgrade, Serbia, in 1992. She obtained her MSc and PhD degrees in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology at the Faculty of Medicine, University of Ljubljana in 1997 and 2000 respectively. Between 2000 and 2008 she was Junior and Senior Postdoctoral Fellow at the College of Life Sciences, University of Dundee, Scotland, UK, to return to Slovenia and the Faculty of Medicine in January 2008 to start and independent research career. Since 2019 she is also Deputy Head of MCMB.
She is Board Member of the European Cytoskeleton Forum and been member of a number of COST actions (past and present), the European Society for Investigative Dermatology and Slovenian Biochemistry Society.