Mira Maric
Professor of Physics · Group Leader in Quantum & Condensed Matter · at ISTA since 2021. I study whether the materials around us can carry a faint memory of what just happened to them.
A physicist chasing memory in matter.
Mira Maric leads a group at the intersection of condensed-matter physics and quantum information, where the question is deceptively simple: can a material carry a trace of its own past?
Her lab combines low-temperature transport measurements with theory to look for hysteresis — a kind of physical memory — in topological materials. The work sits between two fields that rarely speak to each other, and that is exactly where she likes to be. Before joining ISTA in 2021, she held positions at the Max Planck Institute for Solid State Research and completed her PhD at ETH Zürich.
Maric is a recipient of an ERC Starting Grant (2023) and teaches the graduate course Quantum Matter I in the ISTA PhD program. She supervises PhD students and postdocs from six countries and is an advocate for open-access publishing and reproducible measurement pipelines.
"The materials we call inert may be quietly keeping records. I want to learn to read them."
What the Maric Group works on.
Maric Group
Can a material remember what just happened to it? 11 members, 3 open positions.
Quantum & Condensed Matter
14 groups · 312 publications working on the physics of quantum states.
Nanofabrication Facility
Shared cleanroom and cryogenics used across the group's experiments.
Recent work.
- 2026 Hysteresis as a memory substrate in topological insulators M. Maric, A. Lindqvist, T. Okonkwo · Nature Physics · Open access Open access
- 2025 Anomalous transport signatures near a nanoscale phase transition M. Maric, R. Devi · Physical Review Letters Open access
- 2024 A reproducible pipeline for low-temperature transport measurements A. Lindqvist, M. Maric et al. · Review of Scientific Instruments Preprint
- 2023 Topological protection and its limits: a review M. Maric · Reviews of Modern Physics Open access
A path across three countries.
ISTA · Klosterneuburg
Max Planck Institute for Solid State Research
Institute for Quantum Electronics · ETH Zürich
ETH Zürich
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Mira Maric can comment for media in English and German. For interviews, contact the ISTA Communications team.
Contact the press officeGet in touch.
- mira.maric@ista.ac.at
- Phone
- +43 (0)2243 9000 3211
- Office
- Central Building, Office 2.14
- Office hours
- Tue 14:00–16:00, or by appointment
- ORCID
- 0000-0002-1825-0097