Carolina A. Marques is a postdoctoral researcher at the Department of Physics of the University of Zurich. She has studied Physics and obtained her bachelor’s and master’s degree from the University of Lisbon, where she worked with Prof Olinda Conde on chemical vapour deposition of few-layer MoSe₂. After finishing her undergraduate studies, she worked as a researcher with Prof Mário Rodrigues to study the mechanical properties of biological systems using scanning probe microscopy. Subsequently, she joined the Scottish Doctoral Training Centre in Condensed Matter Physics (CM-CDT) in St Andrews in 2017 to pursue a PhD. She joined the group of Prof Peter Wahl focusing on the study of the strongly correlated electronic states stabilized at the surface of the members of the Ruddlesden-Popper series of the strontium ruthenates using scanning tunneling microscopy. She used quasi-particle interference imaging at ultra-low temperatures and in high magnetic fields to image the correlated electronic states in these. She graduated in 2022 and was awarded the thesis prize of the IoP superconductivity group for her PhD thesis. She continued as a postdoctoral researcher in St Andrews for a year before joining the group of Prof Fabian Natterer at the University of Zurich in October 2022 to explore faster approaches to performing quasiparticle interference measurements. She received a Swiss Government Excellence postdoctoral scholarship in 2023.

Carolina’s research interests focus on using atomic scale imaging and spectroscopy to establish a microscopic understanding of the mechanisms behind strongly correlated electron phenomena such as superconductivity, density waves, magnetic orders and quantum criticality.