diff --git a/CMakeLists.txt b/CMakeLists.txt
index 81051690488af14b1d9aa46d17a7ec2e80f47493..d5937e872731ad0083f1350eddf1804424f3a36d 100644
--- a/CMakeLists.txt
+++ b/CMakeLists.txt
@@ -12,6 +12,7 @@ list (APPEND CMAKE_MODULE_PATH "${PROJECT_SOURCE_DIR}/cmake")
 # Available backend options
 option(ENABLE_EXTRAE "Enable Extrae" OFF)
 option(ENABLE_DLB "Enable DLB" OFF)
+option(ENABLE_NVTX "Enable NVTX" OFF)
 
 # other options options
 option(BUILD_C_FORTRAN "Enable C and Fortran Interfaces" ON)
@@ -86,6 +87,13 @@ if(ENABLE_DLB)
 endif()
 
 
+if(ENABLE_NVTX)
+  find_package(CUDAToolkit REQUIRED COMPONENTS CUDA::nvtx3)
+  target_link_libraries(nesmik PRIVATE CUDA::nvtx3)
+  target_compile_definitions(nesmik PRIVATE "ENABLE_NVTX")
+endif()
+
+
 include(FetchContent)
 
 FetchContent_Declare(json URL https://github.com/nlohmann/json/releases/download/v3.11.3/json.tar.xz)
diff --git a/src/backends/CMakeLists.txt b/src/backends/CMakeLists.txt
index ccb0564a5397f6b7b703b2413df47dfe5f484d72..f8b0022f8c1c241b1256c18fef10d82d481fbc8d 100644
--- a/src/backends/CMakeLists.txt
+++ b/src/backends/CMakeLists.txt
@@ -7,3 +7,7 @@ endif()
 if(ENABLE_EXTRAE)
     add_subdirectory(extrae)
 endif()
+
+if(ENABLE_NVTX)
+    add_subdirectory(nvtx)
+endif()
diff --git a/src/backends/default/default.hpp b/src/backends/default/default.hpp
index 7158c24880387e08a69638d141458b364b3ccaab..824c9099f1da7c2e37b8f2574cc09ab1f92cf4fa 100644
--- a/src/backends/default/default.hpp
+++ b/src/backends/default/default.hpp
@@ -10,6 +10,6 @@ class NPNDefault : public NotProperlyNestedAnnotationStrategy {
                                &info_to_start) noexcept override;
   virtual void RegionStop(
       const NotProperlyNestedRegionInformation &info_to_stop) noexcept override;
-  virtual void Init() noexcept;
-  virtual void Finalize() noexcept;
+  virtual void Init() noexcept override;
+  virtual void Finalize() noexcept override;
 };
diff --git a/src/backends/detection/detection.hpp b/src/backends/detection/detection.hpp
index e1d87582e2d2f52046fa0e987b060145784abef8..f077a6fc99176f76af5c829d09256134f6aed636 100644
--- a/src/backends/detection/detection.hpp
+++ b/src/backends/detection/detection.hpp
@@ -51,7 +51,7 @@ class DetectionStrategy : public ProperlyNestedAnnotationStrategy {
       const ProperlyNestedRegionInformation& region) noexcept override;
   virtual void RegionStopLast(
       const ProperlyNestedRegionInformation& region) noexcept override;
-  virtual void Init() noexcept;
-  virtual void Finalize() noexcept;
+  virtual void Init() noexcept override;
+  virtual void Finalize() noexcept override;
 };
 #endif  // NESMIK_DETECTION_H
diff --git a/src/backends/nvtx/CMakeLists.txt b/src/backends/nvtx/CMakeLists.txt
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..1fe769843c76edb3b04ca615888f65228ac604b1
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/backends/nvtx/CMakeLists.txt
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+target_sources(nesmik PRIVATE nvtx_pushpop.cpp)
diff --git a/src/backends/nvtx/nvtx_pushpop.cpp b/src/backends/nvtx/nvtx_pushpop.cpp
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..91abf328bfbb850bdd0ebdba5cbe80f0c85d7dff
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/backends/nvtx/nvtx_pushpop.cpp
@@ -0,0 +1,32 @@
+#include "nvtx_pushpop.hpp"
+
+#include <iostream>
+extern "C" {
+#include <nvtx3/nvToolsExt.h>
+}
+NVTXPushPopStrategy::NVTXPushPopStrategy() {
+  parallelism_descriptor_ = {
+      .mpi_descriptor_ = MPIDescriptor::DontCare,
+      .thread_descriptor_ = ThreadDescriptor::Unsupported};
+
+  domain_ = nvtxDomainCreateA("neSmiK");
+}
+
+void NVTXPushPopStrategy::RegionStart(
+    const ProperlyNestedRegionInformation &region) noexcept {
+  nvtxEventAttributes_t eventAttrib;
+  eventAttrib.version = NVTX_VERSION;
+  eventAttrib.size = NVTX_EVENT_ATTRIB_STRUCT_SIZE;
+  // Configure the Attributes
+  eventAttrib.messageType = NVTX_MESSAGE_TYPE_ASCII;
+  eventAttrib.category = 0;
+  eventAttrib.message.ascii = std::string(region.name).c_str();
+  nvtxDomainRangePushEx(domain_, &eventAttrib);
+}
+
+void NVTXPushPopStrategy::RegionStopLast(
+    const ProperlyNestedRegionInformation &region) noexcept {
+  nvtxDomainRangePop(domain_);
+}
+void NVTXPushPopStrategy::Init() noexcept { return; }
+void NVTXPushPopStrategy::Finalize() noexcept { return; }
diff --git a/src/backends/nvtx/nvtx_pushpop.hpp b/src/backends/nvtx/nvtx_pushpop.hpp
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..1a6b9abe1c1a7838560a7663d608e2ae69785568
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/backends/nvtx/nvtx_pushpop.hpp
@@ -0,0 +1,23 @@
+#ifndef NESMIK_NVTX_PUSHPOP_H
+#define NESMIK_NVTX_PUSHPOP_H
+
+#include <strategies.hpp>
+extern "C" {
+#include <nvtx3/nvToolsExt.h>
+}
+class NVTXPushPopStrategy : public ProperlyNestedAnnotationStrategy {
+ private:
+  nvtxDomainHandle_t domain_;
+
+ public:
+  NVTXPushPopStrategy();
+  inline static const std::string name = "NVTX";
+  void RegionStart(
+      const ProperlyNestedRegionInformation &region) noexcept override;
+  void RegionStopLast(
+      const ProperlyNestedRegionInformation &region) noexcept override;
+  virtual void Init() noexcept;
+  virtual void Finalize() noexcept;
+};
+
+#endif  // NESMIK_NVTX_PUSHPOP_H
diff --git a/src/delegator.cpp b/src/delegator.cpp
index 60f68f55374260eb8eba5af1cfc61f344c4d57ac..890eb06ed4e33a6cd5d90e35a85bf4a43c60e403 100644
--- a/src/delegator.cpp
+++ b/src/delegator.cpp
@@ -19,6 +19,9 @@
 #include "backends/extrae/extrae_type_stack.hpp"
 #endif
 
+#ifdef ENABLE_NVTX
+#include "backends/nvtx/nvtx_pushpop.hpp"
+#endif
 void Delegator::InitDetectionBackend(const std::string &backend) {
   pn_annotation_strategy_ = std::make_unique<DetectionStrategy>();
 }
@@ -56,6 +59,12 @@ void Delegator::InitProperlyNestedBackends(const std::string &backend) {
     pn_annotation_strategy_ = std::make_unique<DLBTalpTreeStrategy>();
   }
 #endif
+#ifdef ENABLE_NVTX
+  else if (backend.compare(NVTXPushPopStrategy::name) == 0) {
+
+    pn_annotation_strategy_ = std::make_unique<NVTXPushPopStrategy>();
+  }
+#endif
 }
 
 void Delegator::Init(std::string_view nesting_mode,
@@ -140,7 +149,6 @@ void Delegator::Init(std::string_view nesting_mode,
                   << std::endl;
         nesting_mode_ = NestingMode::ProperlyNestedButOtherBackend;
       }
-
       InitNonProperlyNestedBackends(backend);
       break;
   }