Ivan Marusic (born 1965) is an Australian engineer and physicist. He is known for his work on

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at high

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, using both theoretical and experimental approaches. Marusic was born to Croatian parents in

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. He emigrated to Australia when he was three years old along with his parents and older sister. He grew up in Melbourne. He received his PhD in 1992 and a bachelor's degree in mechanical engineering in 1987 from the

University of Melbourne The University of Melbourne (colloquially known as Melbourne University) is a public university, public research university located in Melbourne, Australia. Founded in 1853, it is Australia's second oldest university and the oldest in the state ...

. From 1998 to 2002 he was a faculty member at the

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, USA, where he was a recipient of an

NSF Career Award The National Science Foundation CAREER award is the most prestigious award presented by the National Science Foundation (NSF) of the United States Federal Government to support junior faculty who exemplify the role of teacher-scholars through rese ...

, Packard Fellowship in Science and Engineering and Taylor Career Development Award. He received an ARC

Federation Fellowship Federation Fellowships are Australian professorial research fellowships that were instigated by the Australian Government as part of its Backing Australia's Ability initiative. They were initially designed to compete with prestigious overseas grant ...

in 2006, ARC Laureate Fellowship in 2012 and since 2014 is an elected

Fellow of the Australian Academy of Science The Fellowship of the Australian Academy of Science is made up of about 500 Australian scientists. Scientists judged by their peers to have made an exceptional contribution to knowledge in their field may be elected to Fellowship of the Academy ...

. In 2010 Marusic was elected a Fellow of the

American Physical Society The American Physical Society (APS) is a not-for-profit membership organization of professionals in physics and related disciplines, comprising nearly fifty divisions, sections, and other units. Its mission is the advancement and diffusion of ...

. He was awarded a 2016 APS Stanley Corrsin Award for fluid dynamics research. He was elected a Fellow of the

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in 2021 and of the

Royal Society The Royal Society, formally The Royal Society of London for Improving Natural Knowledge, is a learned society and the United Kingdom's national academy of sciences. The society fulfils a number of roles: promoting science and its benefits, re ...

in 2024.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Marusic, Ivan Living people 1965 births Australian physicists Australian mechanical engineers Fellows of the Australian Academy of Science Fellows of the American Physical Society Fellows of the Australian Academy of Technological Sciences and Engineering Fellows of the Royal Society Fluid dynamicists Australian people of Croatian descent University of Melbourne alumni