dr Slobodan Marković B.

Full Professor

Short biography:

Date and place of birth: November 15, 1970, Novi Sad
Graduated in 1993, completed his Master's in 1996, and defended his doctoral thesis entitled Quaternary Paleogeography of Vojvodina in 2000 at the Department of Geography, Tourism and Hotel Management, Faculty of Sciences, Novi Sad.

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Academic ranks:

  • 1994 – Teaching Assistant – Faculty of Sciences, Novi Sad
  • 2000 – Assistant Professor – Faculty of Sciences, Novi Sad
  • 2005 – Associate Professor – Faculty of Sciences, Novi Sad
  • 2009 – Full Professor – Faculty of Sciences, Novi Sad

Research areas

  • Loess-paleosol sequences
  • Quaternary stratigraphy
  • Climatic and environmental reconstruction of the Quaternary
  • Paleopedology
  • Geomorphology
  • Hydrology

Membership in organizations:

  • International Union for Quaternary Research (INQUA) Serbian National Research Council, President
  • Loess Research Focus Group INQUA, President;
  • European Quaternary Stratigraphy sub-commission (SEQS), Full Member;
  • Past Global Changes (PAGES), National Representative;
  • EGU (European Geosciences Union);
  • Committee for Climate Dynamics and the Work of Milutin Milanković of the Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts;
  • National Geopreservation Council;
  • Laboratory for Paleoenvironmental Reconstruction (LAPER);
  • Serbian Geographical Society;
  • Committee for Natural Sciences of Matica srpska;
  • Editorial board of Quaternary International journal;
  • Editorial board of Acta Geographica Slovenica journal;

Other important information

  • Foreign languages: English and Russian

Teaching engagement

  • Fundamentals of pedology
  • Geotourism
  • Quaternary paleogeography
  • Physical-geographical foundations of tourism

Selected references and projects

  • Marković, S.B., Oches, E., Sümegi, P., Jovanović, M., Gaudenyi, T. 2006. An introduction to the Upper and Middle Pleistocene loess-paleosol sequences of Ruma section (Vojvodina, Serbia). Quaternary International 149, 80-86.
  • Marković, S.B., Oches, E.A., McCoy, W.D., Gaudenyi, T., Frechen, M., 2007: Malacological and sedimentological evidence for "warm" glacial climate from the Irig loess sequence (Vojvodina, Serbia). Geophysics, Geochemistry and Geosystems 8, Q09008, doi:10.1029/2006GC001565.
  • Machalett, B., Oches, E.A., Frechen, M., Zöller, L., Hambach, U., Mavlyanova, N.G., Marković, S.B., Endlicher, W. 2008. Aeolian dust dynamics in Central Asia during the Pleistocene: Driven by the long-term migration, seasonality, and permanency of the Asiatic polar front. Geochemistry, Geophysics & Geosystems 9, Q08Q09, 1-22.
  • Fuchs, M., Rousseau, D.D., Antoine, P., Hatte, C., Gautier, C., Marković, S.B., Zöller, L. 2008. High resolution chronology of the upper Pleistocene loess/paleosol sequence at Surduk, Vojvodina, Serbia. Boreas 37, 66-73.
  • Marković, S.B., Hambach, U., Catto, N., Jovanović, M., Buggle, B., Machalett, B., Zöller, L., Glaser, B., Frechen, M. 2009. The middle and late Pleistocene loess-paleosol sequences at Batajanica, Vojvodina, Serbia. Quaternary International 198, 255-266.
  • Bokhorst, M.P., Beets, C.J., Marković, S.B., Gerasimenko, N.P., Matviishina, Z.N., Frechen, M. 2009. Pedo-chemical climate proxies in Late Pleistocene Serbian-Ukrainian loess sequences. Quaternary International 198, 123-133.
  • Schmidt, E., Machalett, B., Marković, S.B., Tsukamoto, S., Frechen, M. 2010. Luminescence chronology of the upper part of the Stari Slankamen loess sequence (Vojvodina, Serbia). Quaternary Geochronology 5, 137-142.
  • Petrović, A., Marković, S.B. 2010. Annus mirabilis and the end of the geocentric causality: Why celebrate the 130th anniversary of Milutin Milanković? Quaternary International 214, 114-118.
  • Ujvari, G., Kovacs, J., Varga, Gy., Raucsik, B., Marković, S.B. 2010. Dust flux estimates for the Last Glacial Period in East Central Europe based on terrestrial records of loess deposits: a review. Quaternary Science Reviews 29, 3157-3166.
  • Stevens, T., Marković, S.B., Zech, M., Hambach, U., Sümegi, P. 2011. Dust deposition and climate in the Carpathian Basin over an independently dated last glacial-interglacial cycle. Quaternary Science Reviews 30, 662-681.
  • Marković, S.B., Hambach, U., Stevens, T., Kukla, G.J., Heller, F., McCoy, W.D., Oches, E.A., Buggle, B., Zöller, L. 2011. The last million years recorded at the Stari Slankamen loess-palaeosol sequence: revised chronostratigraphy and long-term environmental trends. Quaternary Science Reviews 30, 1142-1154.
  • Smalley, I.J., Marković, S.B., Svirčev, Z. 2011. Loess is [almost totally formed by] the accumulation of dust. Quaternary International 240, 4-11.
  • Marković, S.B., Catto, N., Smalley, I., Zöller, L. 2011. LoessFest II editorial. Quaternary International 240, 1-3.
  • Zech, M., Pedentchouk, N., Buggle, B., Lieber, K., Kalbitz, K., Marković, S., Glaser, B. 2011. Effect of leaf litter degradation and seasonality on D/H isotope ratios of n-alkane biomarkers. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta 75, 4917-4928.
  • Krstić, S., Zech, W., Svirčev, Z., Obreht, I., Marković, S.B. 2012. Late Quaternary environmental changes in Helambu Himal, Central Nepal, recorded in the diatom flora assemblage composition and geochemistry of Lake Panch Pokhari. Journal of Paleolimnology 47, 113–124.
  • Loess-paleosol sequences of Vojvodina – key to understanding paleoclimatic and paleoecological transition on the European continent. Project funded by the Provincial Secretariat for Science and Technological Development, AP Vojvodina. Project duration: 2007–2008. Project leader: Slobodan Marković
  • Loess plateaus of Serbia. Ministry of Science and Technological Development of the Republic of Serbia. Project number: 146019. Project duration: 2006–2010. Project leader: Jovan Romelić
  • Loess Research in Serbia. Federal German Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF). Grant: MOE 04/R01. Project duration: 2004–2005. Coordinators: Ludwig Zöller (Universität Bayreuth, Germany) and Slobodan Marković (Faculty of Sciences, Novi Sad)
  • Climate changes in Vojvodina during the last million years. Project funded by the Provincial Secretariat for Science and Technological Development, AP Vojvodina. Project duration: 2011–2013. Project leader: Slobodan Marković
  • Geotransformations of the territory of Serbia – past, present problems and proposed solutions. Project number: 176020. Project duration: 2011–2014. Project leader: Slobodan Marković