Karin Markides | |
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.jpg) Karin Markides in 2025 | |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Analytical Chemistry |
| Institutions | Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology |
| Thesis | Organosiloxanes containing cyano groups for capillary chromatography (1984) |
Karin Markides, born 1951, is a Swedishprofessor inanalytical chemistry and President and CEO ofOkinawa Institute of Science and Technology from 1 June 2023. She was the president ofAmerican University of Armenia from 1 July 2019 to 2 December 2022. She was also the President and CEO ofChalmers University of Technology from 2006 to 2015.[1] From 2004 to 2006 she was vicedirector general forVinnova. She is also board member of theRoyal Swedish Academy of Engineering Sciences since 1992 and a board member of theRoyal Swedish Academy of Sciences since 1999.[2]
Markides completed her doctorate degree atStockholm University 1984 with the thesisOrganosiloxanes containing cyano groups for capillary chromatography.[3] Following this she started her research career atBrigham Young University in Utah, USA, first as a postdoc, and later as research assistant and associate director. In May 1990 she returned to Sweden as a professor atUppsala University. Fourteen years later, in May 2004, she was employed as vice director general of Vinnova, the Swedish innovation agency.
Markides has been chairman of the Scientific Council for Sustainable Development under the Swedish government (vetenskapliga rådet för hållbar utveckling) since 2015.[4] The council's mission is to give evidence-based, concrete suggestions for development of financial, ecological, cultural and social sustainability for the government's longterm sustainability vision.
Markides has received several awards and distinctions, among others:
Professor Markides holds the following patents:
