Nina Marković is a Croatian-American physicist. Her work focuses on quantum transport in low-dimensional systems, superconductivity, nanostructures, and quantum computing. She received a

Sloan Research Fellowship The Sloan Research Fellowships are awarded annually by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation since 1955 to "provide support and recognition to early-career scientists and scholars". This program is one of the oldest of its kind in the United States. ...

in 2004. Marković worked at

Delft University of Technology Delft University of Technology ( nl, Technische Universiteit Delft), also known as TU Delft, is the oldest and largest Dutch public technical university, located in Delft, Netherlands. As of 2022 it is ranked by QS World University Rankings among ...

Harvard University Harvard University is a private Ivy League research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Founded in 1636 as Harvard College and named for its first benefactor, the Puritan clergyman John Harvard, it is the oldest institution of higher le ...

, and

Johns Hopkins University Johns Hopkins University (Johns Hopkins, Hopkins, or JHU) is a private university, private research university in Baltimore, Maryland. Founded in 1876, Johns Hopkins is the oldest research university in the United States and in the western hem ...

before joining the

Goucher College Goucher College ( ') is a private liberal arts college in Towson, Maryland. It was chartered in 1885 by a conference in Baltimore led by namesake John F. Goucher and local leaders of the Methodist Episcopal Church.https://archive.org/details/h ...

Department of Physics and Astronomy in 2015.

Education

In 1993, Marković earned a Bachelor of Science in Physics from the

University of Zagreb The University of Zagreb ( hr, Sveučilište u Zagrebu, ; la, Universitas Studiorum Zagrabiensis) is the largest Croatian university and the oldest continuously operating university in the area covering Central Europe south of Vienna and all of ...

under advisor Boran Leontić. At

University of Minnesota The University of Minnesota, formally the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities, (UMN Twin Cities, the U of M, or Minnesota) is a public university, public Land-grant university, land-grant research university in the Minneapolis–Saint Paul, Tw ...

in 1998, she earned a doctorate in physics. She completed her thesis titled ''Transport properties and quantum phase transitions in ultrathin films of metals'' under her doctoral advisor

Allen Goldman Allen Marshall Goldman (born October 18, 1937, in the Bronx, New York City) is an American experimental condensed matter physicist, known for his research on electronic transport properties of superconductors and for the eponymous Carlson-Goldman ...

and received the Aneesur Rahman Award for best thesis. From 1998 to 2000, Marković conducted postdoctoral research at

with Herre van der Zant and Hans Mooij ( de). She was a postdoctoral fellow at

where she conducted research with

Michael Tinkham Michael Tinkham (February 23, 1928 – November 4, 2010) was an American physicist. He was Rumford Professor of Physics and Gordon McKay Research Professor of Applied Physics at Harvard University. He is best known for his work on superconductiv ...

from 2000 to 2002.

Career

Marković joined the faculty at

as an assistant professor of physics and astronomy in 2003. She was awarded a

in 2004. In August 2004, she was awarded $99,999 from the

National Science Foundation The National Science Foundation (NSF) is an independent agency of the United States government that supports fundamental research and education in all the non-medical fields of science and engineering. Its medical counterpart is the National I ...

to conduct a study on quantum entanglement of electrons. She won a $500,000

National Science Foundation CAREER Award The National Science Foundation CAREER awards, presented by the National Science Foundation (NSF), are in support of junior faculty who exemplify the role of teacher-scholars through research and education, and the integration of these endeavors i ...

to pursue research on electrical properties in nanometer scale materials in 2006. Marković was promoted to associate professor at Johns Hopkins in 2009. In August 2011, she was awarded $360,000 from

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to conduct a study on ''Spin Control in One-Dimensional Quantum Dots''. In the fall of 2015, Marković joined the

Department of Physics and Astronomy as an associate professor in 2015. In August 2015, she was awarded $430,371 from

to conduct a study on ''Designing Quantum Matter with Superconducting Nanowires''. She is a fellow of the

American Physical Society The American Physical Society (APS) is a not-for-profit membership organization of professionals in physics and related disciplines, comprising nearly fifty divisions, sections, and other units. Its mission is the advancement and diffusion of k ...

and a member of the

Materials Research Society The Materials Research Society (MRS) is a non-profit, professional organization for materials researchers, scientists and engineers. Established in 1973, MRS is a member-driven organization of approximately 14,000 materials researchers from academi ...

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