MAGDALENA ĐORĐEVIĆ

Corresponding member

Department of Mathematics, Physics and Geosciences

 

Membership of SASA
Corresponding member since 7 November 2024

Field of study
Theoretical high energy physics and theoretic nuclear physics, study of quark-gluon plasma (QGP)
Theoretical biology, modelling of epidemic spread in a population and bacterial regulatory systems

Education
BSc (2000);  Faculty of Physics, University of Belgrade:  PhD studies (2000–2005) Columbia University, Department of Physics, New York, USA: postdoctoral studies (2005–2008)  Ohio State University, Department of Physics, USA

Career
Department of Physics, Arkansas State University, USA: Assistant Professor–tenure track,  2008−2010); Institute of Physics: research associate (2010), senior research associate (2011), principal research fellow (since 2016)

Project leadership
Project Leader: Horizon2020 European Research Council (ERC) 2016 Consolidator Grant, ERC-2016-COG:725741, “A novel Quark-Gluon Plasma tomography tool: from jet quenching to exploring the extreme medium properties”, 2017-2023, EUR 1.356.000
IFB coordinator: Swiss National Science Foundation SCOPES project, IZ73Z0_152297, “Bioinformatics and Modelling of Bacterial Immune Systems – Understanding Control of CRISPR/Cas”, 2014-2017, 193.500 CHF (75.000 CHF to IFB)
Project Leader: FP7 Marie Curie International Reintegration grant, PIRG08-GA-2010-276913, “Theoretical Predictions of Jet Observables in QCD Matter”, European Commission (Research Executive Agency), 2011-2015, EUR 100.000

Membership of editorial boards
Member of the editorial board of the journal PMC Physics A (PhysMath Central) (2007−2010);  journal reviewer: Physical Review Letters (American Physical Society), Physical Review C (American Physical Society), Physical Review D (American Physical Society), Journal of Physics G (Institute of Physics), Physics Letters B (Elsevier), Nuclear Physics A (Elsevier) 

Membership of scientific boards of international conferences
Member of the International Advisory Committee of the Hard Probes -International Conference on Hard and Electromagnetic Probes of High-Energy Nuclear Collisions, the most influential conference in the sub-field of jet – QGP interaction.
2019−2024 Member of the Advisory Committee of the conference Quark Matter (International Conference on Ultra-Relativistic Nucleus-Nucleus Collisions), the largest and the most influential conference in the field.
Member of the Programme Committee of the International Conference LHCP 2025 (The 13th Annual Conference on Large Hadron Collider Physics), May 2023, Taipei, Taiwan.
Member of the Programme Committee of the International Conference LHCP 2023, May 2023, Belgrade, Serbia.
Member of the Scientific Committee of BPU Congress, August 2022, Belgrade, Serbia.
Member of the Organizing and Scientific Committee of COST-THOR Winter School, January 2020, Jahorina, Bosnia and Herzegovina.
Member of the International Advisory Committee of HEPFT2013 conference (XXIXth International Workshop on High Energy Physics), June 2013, Protvino, Russia.

Organization of conferences and programmes
August 2024: INT Theory Program: Heavy ion physics in the EIC era, funded by the National Advisory Committee for the Institute for Nuclear Theory, Washington University, Seattle, USA.
May 2023: Workshop Exploring Quark-Gluon Plasma through Soft and Hard Probes, SASA, Belgrade, Serbia

Membership of international scientific collaborations
As a leading expert in energy loss of heavy quarks in QGP, Dr Đorđević was a member of the following collaborations:  JET (DoE), SaporeGravis (FP7),
COST-THOR and EMMI RRTF, Horizon 2020 STRONG2020 and Honexcomb.
These collaborations bring together researchers in modern nuclear physics, intending to understand QGP. They invite her on a regular basis to provide theoretical predictions for the collaborations: ALICE, ATLAS and CMS at LHC (CERN), as well as for STAR and PHENIX at RHIC (BNL), which are used for comparisons with the results of experiments with heavy ions collisions. As a high-energy physics recognized researcher, she became a member of the JINR Programme and Advisory Committee for particle physics in Dubna, Russia.

Recognitions and Awards
Dissertation Award in Nuclear Physics by the American Physical Society. (For her dissertation presenting a theoretical treatment of heavy quark energy loss in a strongly interacting quark-gluon plasma in which the gluon radiative energy loss was solved to all orders in opacity, 2007)
J. Robert Oppenheimer Fellowship  (2008) offered by the Los Alamos National Laboratory to ‘candidates displaying extraordinary ability in scientific research and promise of becoming outstanding leaders in the research they pursue’.
Ralph E. Powe Jr. Faculty Enhancement Award (2010) awarded by Oak Ridge Associated Universities to young professors in the competition of 120 universities
L’Orèal – UNESCO  ‘For Women in Science’ Award in Serbia (2012)
Annual Prize of the Institute of Physics Belgrade (2016)
AmChamHero Award for science development and promotion (2017)
Member of the Young Academy of  Europe (2019)

Bibliography
Bibliography