Karin Markides

Karin Markides
Karin Markides (2023)
Scientific career
FieldsAnalytical Chemistry
InstitutionsOkinawa Institute of Science and Technology
Thesis Organosiloxanes containing cyano groups for capillary chromatography  (1984)

Karin Markides, born 1951, is a Swedish professor in analytical chemistry and President and CEO of Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology from 1 June 2023. She was the president of American University of Armenia from 1 July 2019 to 31 May 2023. She was also the President and CEO of Chalmers University of Technology from 2006 to 2015.[1] From 2004 to 2006 she was vice director general for Vinnova. She is also board member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Engineering Sciences since 1992 and a board member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences since 1999.[2]

Markides completed her doctorate degree at Stockholm University 1984 with the thesis Organosiloxanes containing cyano groups for capillary chromatography.[3] Following this she started her research career at Brigham 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 at Uppsala 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.

  1. ^ Karin Markides ny rektor för Chalmers Archived 2006-10-03 at the Wayback Machine
  2. ^ Chalmers: Karin Markides, rektor Archived 2017-09-03 at the Wayback Machine, läst 18 april 2009
  3. ^ LIBRIS 7608368
  4. ^ Regeringskansliet, Regeringen och (2015-08-12). "Vetenskapligt råd för hållbar utveckling - tilläggsdirektiv till Miljövårdsberedningen (Jo 1968:A)". Regeringskansliet (in Swedish). Retrieved 2018-08-29.