Olivera S. Marković, Ph.D.

Institute of Chemistry, Technology and Metallurgy, Njegoševa 12, Beograd
Department of Chemistry

Phone:   011-3336788

Phone (local):   788

Laboratory:   529

E-mail:   olja@chem.bg.ac.rs

Personal data

Speaks Serbian, English and Spanish language.

Education and qualifications

2009-2013: Basic academic (BSc) studies - Chemistry / University of Belgrade - Faculty of Chemistry (Belgrade, Serbia)

2013-2014: Master academic (MSc) studies - Chemistry / University of Belgrade - Faculty of Chemistry (Belgrade, Serbia)

2014-2022: Doctoral academic (PhD) studies - Chemistry / University of Belgrade - Faculty of Chemistry (Belgrade, Serbia)

History of employment

2016-2019: Junior research assistant / Institute of Chemistry, Technology and Metallurgy (Belgrade, Serbia)

2019-2022: Research assistant / Institute of Chemistry, Technology and Metallurgy (Belgrade, Serbia)

2022: Research associate / Institute of Chemistry, Technology and Metallurgy (Belgrade, Serbia)

Scientific interest

Physicochemical profiling

Protein-drug interactions

Ionic equilibrium

ADMET

Graphene quantum dots

Other activities

Member of Serbian Chemical Society from 2014.

Member of International Association of Physical Chemists from 2015.

Member of Club of Young Chemists of Serbia from 2022.

Author identification numbers:

• Scopus Author ID: 57205699266
• ORCID: 0000-0001-5830-1445

Project researcher:

• Rational Design and Synthesis of Bioactive and Coordination Compounds and Functional Materials Relevant for (bio)Nanotechnology (172035), Ministry of Education, Science and Technological Development of the Republic of Serbia, 2015-2019.

• Synthesis and application of new chemotherapeutics based on natural products and metal complexes, Serbian Academy of Science and Arts, 2020-2022.

• 10^th IAPC Meeting: 10^th World Conference on Physico-Chemical Methods in Drug Discovery & 6^th World Conference on ADMET and DMPK, September 4-6, 2023, Belgrade, Serbia (organized by: University of Belgrade – Faculty of Chemistry and International Association of Physical Chemists)

• 6^th European Summer School on Drug Development, September 2-3, 2023, Belgrade, Serbia (organized by: University of Belgrade – Faculty of Chemistry and International Association of Physical Chemists)

• Volunteer at exhibition "Laboratory of the outstanding – the heritage of Serbian chemistry", November 5 - December 3, 2013, Belgrade, Serbia (organized by: University of Belgrade – Faculty of Chemistry and Serbian Chemical Society)

• Lecturer at promotion "Where science begins", March 28-29, 2015, Belgrade, Serbia (organized by: University of Belgrade – Faculty of Chemistry and "Open Laboratories")

Representative references

Patents

• Registered patent (65266 B1): Supstituted thiophene quinoline derivativies and use thereof. Number and date of decision to grant the right: 2024/2301, March 11, 2024. Name of the owner of patent: Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts. Inventors: Bogdan Šolaja, Tatjana Srdić-Rajić, Milica Selaković, Aleksandar Pavić, Tatjana Verbić, Grahovac Jelena, Života Selaković, Olivera Marković

Papers

• Miloš Jović, Olivera Marković, Timothy R. Newhouse, Igor M. Opsenica, Života Selaković, A highly selective ESIPT-mechanism-based, ratiometric fluorescent sensor for zinc ions, Dyes and Pigments, 2025, 234, 112547. 

• Igor A. Topalović, Olivera S. Marković, Miloš P. Pešić, Mufaddal H. Kathawala, Martin Kuentz, Alex Avdeef, Abu T. M. Serajuddin, Tatjana Ž. Verbić, Effects of different weak small organic acids on clofazimine solubility in aqueous media, Pharmaceutics, 2024, 16, 1545.

• Sladjana Dorontic, Svetlana Jovanovic, Andjela Stefanovic, Dejan Kepic, Michelangelo Scopelliti, Gabriele Ciasca, Riccardo Di Santo, Danica Bajuk Bogdanovic, Olivera Marković, Biljana Todorovic Markovic, Zoran Markovic, Graphene quantum dots with covalently bonded gold nanoparticles winning the battle against methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus under blue light, Synthetic Metals, 2024, 309, 117753.

• Slađana Dorontić, Aurelio Bonasera, Michelangelo Scopelliti, Olivera Marković, Tatjana Verbić, Dušan Sredojević, Gabriele Ciasca, Riccardo Di Santo, James L Mead, Milica Budimir, Danica Bajuk-Bogdanović, Marija Mojsin, Jelena Pejić, Milena Stevanović, Svetlana Jovanović, High-performing structural optimization of graphene quantum dots as glyphosate herbicide photoluminescent probes: real case studies and mechanism insights, Journal of Environmental Chemical Engineering, 2024, 12, 113193.

• Mila Milenković, Gabriele Ciasca, Aurelio Bonasera, Michelangelo Scopelliti, Olivera Marković, Tatjana Verbić, Biljana Todorović Marković, Svetlana Jovanović, Blue-light-driven photoactivity of L-cysteine-modified graphene quantum dots and their antibacterial effects, Journal of Photochemistry and Photobiology B: Biology, 2024, 250, 112818.

• Sladjana Dorontic, Aurelio Bonasera, Michelangelo Scopelliti, Marija Mojsin, Milena Stevanovic, Olivera Marković, Svetlana Jovanović, Blue luminescent amino-functionalized graphene quantum dots as a responsive material for potential detection of metal ions and malathion, Journal of Luminescence, 2022, 252, 119311.

• Sladjana Dorontic, Aurelio Bonasera, Michelangelo Scopelliti, Olivera Marković, Danica Bajuk Bogdanović, Gabriele Ciasca, Sabrina Romano, Ivica Dimkić, Milica Budimir, Dragana Marinković, Svetlana Jovanovic, Gamma-ray-induced structural transformation of GQDs towards the improvement of their optical properties, monitoring of selected toxic compounds and photo-induced effect on bacterial strains, Nanomaterials, 2022, 12, 2714.

• Olivera S. Marković, Nirali G. Patel, Abu T. M. Serajuddin, Alex Avdeef, Tatjana Ž. Verbić, Nortriptyline hydrochloride solubility-pH profiles in a saline phosphate buffer: drug-phosphate complexes and multiple pH_max domains with a Gibbs phase rule "soft" constraints, Molecular Pharmaceutics, 2022, 19, 710-719.

• Matija Krunić, Biljana Ristić, Mihajlo Bošnjak, Verica Paunović, Gordana Tovilović-Kovačević, Nevena Zagović, Aleksandar Mirčić, Zoran Marković, Biljana Todorović-Marković, Svetlana Jovanović, Duška Kleut, Miloš Mojović, Đura Nakarada, Olivera Marković, Irena Vuković, Ljubica Harhaji-Trajković, Vladimir Trajković, Graphene quantum dot antioxidant and proautophagic actions protect SH-SY5Y neuroblastoma cells from oxidative stress-mediated apoptotic death, Free Radical Biology and Medicine, 2021, 177, 167-180.

• Gorana S. Mrđan, Gyöngyi Gy Vastag, Dušan Đ. Škorić, Mirjana M. Radanović, Tatjana Ž. Verbić, Miloš K. Milčić, Ivana N. Stojiljković, Olivera S. Marković, Borko M. Matijević, Synthesis, physicochemical characterization, and TD–DFT calculations of monothiocarbohydrazone derivatives, Structural Chemistry, 2021, 32, 1231-1245.

• Svetlana Jovanović, Slađana Dorontić, Dragana Jovanović, Gabriele Ciasca, Milica Budimir, Aurelio Bonasera, Michelangelo Scopelliti, Olivera Marković, Biljana Todorović Marković, Gamma irradiation of graphene quantum dots with ethylenediamine: Antioxidant for ion sensing, Ceramics International, 2020, 46, 23611-23622.

• Olivera S. Marković, Miloš P. Pešić, Ankita V. Shah, Abu T.M. Serajuddin, Tatjana Ž. Verbić, Alex Avdeef, Solubility-pH profile of desipramine hydrochoride in saline phosphate buffer: Enhanced Solubility due to drug-buffer aggregates, European Journal of Pharmaceutical Sciences, 2019, 133, 264-274.

• Olivera S. Marković, Ilija N. Cvijetić, Mario V. Zlatović, Igor M. Opsenica, Jelena M. Konstantinović, Nataša V. Terzić Jovanović, Bogdan A. Šolaja, Tatjana Ž. Verbić, Human serum albumin binding of certain antimalarials, Spectrochimica Acta Part A: Molecular and Biomolecular Spectroscopy, 2018, 192, 128-139.