Professor of Nuclear Engineering and Radiological Sciences, Professor of Physics, and Professor of Applied Physics
About
Professor Jovanovic is the Director of the Neutron Science Laboratory (NSL) and the Applied Nuclear Science Instrumentation Laboratory (ANSIL), and the leader of the Applied Nuclear Science Group. He is a member of the management team of ZEUS, the most powerful laser in the United States. His expertise is in radiation detection and measurement for scientific discovery, nuclear energy, and nuclear security; intense laser science and technology; and laser-matter interactions. His group has developed novel radiation detectors based on heterogeneous composites, opaque scintillators, segmented scintillators, and two-dimensional materials. In the field of ultrafast optics, he advanced remote detection of nuclear and chemical threats using laser-produced plasmas and advanced the high-power laser technology based on optical parametric chirped-pulse amplification.
Before arriving at Michigan, Professor Jovanovic was a staff physicist at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory and a professor at Purdue University and Penn State University. He is a recipient of the DARPA Young Faculty Award and the DHS Nuclear Forensics Junior Faculty Award, and he is a Fellow of the American Nuclear Society and a Fellow of Optica.
Selected Publications
A.R.L. Kavner and I. Jovanovic, “Measurement of Ionization Produced by 254 eVnr Nuclear Recoils in Germanium,” Physical Review D 110, 083043 (2024)
A. Bernstein, N. Bowden, B. L. Goldblum, P. Huber, I. Jovanovic, and J. Mattingly, “Colloquium: Neutrino Detectors as Tools for Nuclear Security,” Reviews of Modern Physics 92, 011003 (2020).
B. K. Sarker, E. Cazalas, T.-F. Chung, I. Childres, I. Jovanovic, and Y. P. Chen, “Position dependent and millimeter-range photodetection in phototransistors with micron-scale graphene on SiC”, Nature Nanotechnology 12, 668-674 (2017)
K. C. Hartig, I. Ghebregziabher, and I. Jovanovic, “Standoff Detection of Uranium and its Isotopes by Femtosecond Filament Laser Ablation Molecular Isotopic Spectrometry,” Scientific Reports 7, 43852 (2017).
T.H. Joshi, S. Sangiorgio, A. Bernstein, M. Foxe, C. Hagmann, I. Jovanovic, K. Kazkaz, V. Mozin, E.B. Norman, S.V. Pereverzev, F. Rebassoo, and P. Sorensen, “First measurement of the ionization yield of Ar-40 recoils in liquid argon”, Physical Review Letters 112, 171303 (2014).
I. Jovanovic, B. J. Comaskey, C. A. Ebbers, R. A. Bonner, D. M. Pennington, and E. C. Morse, “Optical parametric chirped pulse amplifier as an alternative to Ti:sapphire regenerative amplifiers”, Applied Optics 41, 2923 (2002).
