Dragana Popovic

1989 Ph.D., Physics, Brown University
1985 M.Sc., Physics, Brown University
1983 B.Sc., Physics, University of Belgrade, Serbia, Yugoslavia

Experimental condensed matter physics with focus on quantum materials, especially at the intersection with quantum statistical physics and quantum information science; effects of disorder and strong electronic correlations in two-dimensional (2D) and quasi-2D systems, primarily using electrical transport and resistance noise spectroscopy techniques.

Topics: quantum and thermal phase transitions (metal-insulator, superconductor-insulator, structural, and Berezinskii-Kosterlitz-Thouless transitions); far-from-equilibrium phenomena (charge dynamics, including glassy freezing, thermalization, and many-body localization); interplay of charge and spin orders with superconductivity; superconducting fluctuations and vortex dynamics; failed superconductivity; mesoscopic effects.

Materials include semiconductor heterostructures, layered transition-metal dichalcogenides, copper-oxide high-temperature superconductors, and quasi-2D organic materials.

My research has been supported by the National Science Foundation since 1995 (see "Grants").

2017-present Research Professor, Department of Physics, Florida State University
2004-present Senior Scientist, NHMFL
2000-2004 Associate Scholar/Scientist, NHMFL
1997-2000 Assistant Scholar/Scientist, NHMFL
1995-1997 Visiting Scientist, NHMFL
1993-1997 Assistant Professor of Physics, City College of the City University of New York
April 1990-1993 Postdoctoral Research Associate, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center
1989-March 1990 Postdoctoral Research Associate, Brown University

European Physical Society: EPL Co-Editor (2025-2028)

NHMFL, Condensed Matter Science Development Lead (2025-present)

American Physical Society (APS): Councilor, Executive Committee of the Division of Condensed Matter Physics and the APS Council of Representatives (2024-2027)

AAAS, Member of the Steering Committee of the Section on Physics (2023-2024)

AAAS, Membership Engagement Chair of the Section on Physics (2023-2024)

American Physical Society, Member-at-Large on the Executive Committee of the Division of Condensed Matter Physics (2021-2024)

AAAS, Member of the Electorate Nominating Committee of the Section on Physics (2020-2023)

Full Member, Sigma Xi, The Scientific Research Honor Society (2020)

NSF Committee of Visitors for the Division of Materials Research (2019)

Outstanding Referee, American Physical Society (2017)

Research Professor, Department of Physics, Florida State University (2017)

Distinguished University Scholar, Florida State University (2013)

Fellow, American Physical Society (2012)