Vesna F. Mitrović

Vesna F. Mitrović (born 1973) is a Serbian-American physicist, academic, and researcher. She is the L. Herbert Ballou University Professor of Physics at Brown University, where she also serves as Chair of the Department of Physics. Her work focuses on experimental condensed matter physics, particularly the quantum properties of strongly correlated materials studied using spin resonance techniques under extreme conditions of high magnetic fields and ultra low temperatures. She is a Fellow of the American Physical Society.

Early life and education Mitrović was born in Šabac, Serbia (formerly Yugoslavia) in 1973. She moved to the United States for her university education and earned her undergraduate degree from the Illinois Institute of Technology (IIT) in Chicago and completed her Ph.D. in Physics at Northwestern University in 2001

Following her doctorate, she conducted postdoctoral research at the Grenoble National High Magnetic Field Laboratory in France in the group of Claude Berthier, where she gained experience in high-field, ultra low-temperature experimental techniques.

Academic career Mitrović joined the faculty of Brown University in 2003. She was appointed Assistant Professor in 2004 and named Manning Assistant Professor of Physics in 2007. She was promoted to Associate Professor in 2007 and to Professor of Physics in 2018. In 2022 she was appointed to L. Herbert Ballou University Professor of Physics. In 2024, she was appointed Chair of the Department of Physics.

Mitrović is a Fellow of the American Physical Society (APS).

She was an Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Fellow and the recipient of the NSF CAREER award. and the Journal of Low Temperature Physics. Materials Today, ''IOP Physics World

Research Mitrović employs spin resonance techniques, particularly nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR), to probe quantum properties of materials. Her work encompasses unconventional superconductors (e.g. identification of the microscopic nature of the FFLO state), strongly correlated systems, spin–orbit entangled materials, quantum magnets, and topological and frustrated quantum systems. In recent years, her research has increasingly intersected with quantum information science (QIS),

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