Dragana Popović is a physicist from the former country of

Yugoslavia , common_name = Yugoslavia , life_span = 1918–19921941–1945: World War II in Yugoslavia#Axis invasion and dismemberment of Yugoslavia, Axis occupation , p1 = Kingdom of SerbiaSerbia , flag_p ...

who works in the US as a research professor at

Florida State University Florida State University (FSU or Florida State) is a Public university, public research university in Tallahassee, Florida, United States. It is a senior member of the State University System of Florida and a preeminent university in the s ...

and research faculty in the

National High Magnetic Field Laboratory The National High Magnetic Field Laboratory (MagLab) is a facility at Florida State University, the University of Florida, and Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico, that performs magnetic field research in physics, biology, bioengineeri ...

. Her research is in experimental

condensed matter physics Condensed matter physics is the field of physics that deals with the macroscopic and microscopic physical properties of matter, especially the solid and liquid State of matter, phases, that arise from electromagnetic forces between atoms and elec ...

, and especially the use of electric transport and of resistance noise

spectroscopy Spectroscopy is the field of study that measures and interprets electromagnetic spectra. In narrower contexts, spectroscopy is the precise study of color as generalized from visible light to all bands of the electromagnetic spectrum. Spectro ...

to study electromagnetic behavior on the

mesoscopic scale Mesoscopic physics is a subdiscipline of condensed matter physics that deals with materials of an intermediate size. These materials range in size between the nanoscale for a quantity of atoms (such as a molecule) and of materials measuring mic ...

at the interfaces between insulators and

semiconductor A semiconductor is a material with electrical conductivity between that of a conductor and an insulator. Its conductivity can be modified by adding impurities (" doping") to its crystal structure. When two regions with different doping level ...

s, metals, and superconductors.

Education and career

Popović graduated from the

University of Belgrade The University of Belgrade () is a public university, public research university in Belgrade, Serbia. It is the oldest and largest modern university in Serbia. Founded in 1808 as the Belgrade Higher School in revolutionary Serbia, by 1838 it me ...

in 1983, with a bachelor's degree in physics. She continued her studies at

Brown University Brown University is a Private university, private Ivy League research university in Providence, Rhode Island, United States. It is the List of colonial colleges, seventh-oldest institution of higher education in the US, founded in 1764 as the ' ...

, receiving a master's degree in 1985 and completing her Ph.D. in 1989. After postdoctoral research at Brown University and the IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, Popović joined the

City College of New York The City College of the City University of New York (also known as the City College of New York, or simply City College or CCNY) is a Public university, public research university within the City University of New York (CUNY) system in New York ...

as an assistant professor of physics in 1993. After visiting the National High Magnetic Field Laboratory from 1995 to 1997, she moved from City College to the laboratory in 1997; she has been a senior scientist there since 2004, and a research professor at Florida State University since 2017.

Recognition

Popović was named as a

Fellow of the American Physical Society The American Physical Society honors members with the designation ''Fellow'' for having made significant accomplishments to the field of physics. The following lists are divided chronologically by the year of designation. * List of fellows of the ...

(APS) in 2012, after a nomination from the APS Division of Condensed Matter Physics, "for experimental studies of glassy behavior in strongly correlated systems near the metal-insulator transition".

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Popović, Dragana Year of birth missing (living people) Living people Yugoslav emigrants to the United States Yugoslav physicists Yugoslav women scientists American condensed matter physicists American women physicists University of Belgrade alumni Brown University alumni City College of New York faculty Florida State University faculty Fellows of the American Physical Society