Jasmina Vujic

Jasmina Vujic (born 1953) is an American professor of nuclear engineering at UC Berkeley in California. She is also the first woman to serve as chair of a university nuclear engineering department in the United States.[1]

Jasmina Vujic
Born
Loznica, Serbia
NationalityAmerican
OccupationNuclear engineering professor and former chair at Berkeley
Known for1st female head of a nuclear engineering department in the US

Background

Born in Loznica, Serbia, Vujic grew up in the town of Šabac. She studied at Belgrade University's School of Electrical Engineering, graduating in 1977. From 1977 until 1985, she worked at the Vinča Nuclear Institute near Belgrade.[2] After moving to the United States in 1985, Vujic obtained her Masters in 1987 and her Ph.D. in 1989, both from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.[2] She then worked at the Argonne National Laboratory before starting her career at Berkeley.[2] She has also been involved in educational initiatives in Serbia, like giving a speech at a summer math camp for children.[3]

Career

Since 1992, Vujic has taught undergraduate and graduate courses in nuclear engineering at Berkeley. She is co-director of the Berkeley Nuclear Research Center, which she also co-founded.[4] From 2005 to 2009, she was chair of Berkeley's nuclear engineering school, making her the first American woman to head such a department.

Her current research interests include reactor core design and biomedical applications of radiation, as well as neutron and photon transport.[5] Vujic has published over 240 papers, with about one quarter of them appearing in top archival journals.[6] She has been the recipient of several awards, including Berkeley's 1996 Prytanean Faculty Award and the 1991 American Nuclear Society best paper award.[6][2] She has given numerous presentations and lectures abroad and in the United States.

In 2016, she became the program director of a 25 million dollar research grant focused on nuclear science and national security.[7] The grant benefits a coalition of eight universities headed by a Berkeley.[8] Vujic is a member of RadWatch, a Berkeley project that provides data on radiation to the public.[9] She is also considered to be a leading specialist on nuclear reactors and has been quoted in the news media on such issues.[10][6] From 2010-2012, she led the "Nuclear Engineering Department Heads Organization " in the USA. Vujic has also worked as a consultant for companies like General Electric, Transware, and VeriTainer.[2]

References
  1. "Nobelova nagrada je ispolitizovana". www.novosti.rs. Retrieved 26 April 2018.
  2. http://hpschapters.org/ncchps/BIO_-_Jasmina_Vujic.doc
  3. "Mladi matematičari kao nastavnici". 20 August 2017. Retrieved 26 April 2018.
  4. "Jasmina Vujic - Berkeley Nuclear Engineering". www.nuc.berkeley.edu. Retrieved 26 April 2018.
  5. "Jasmina L. Vujic - Research UC Berkeley". vcresearch.berkeley.edu. Retrieved 26 April 2018.
  6. Council, National Research; Studies, Division on Earth and Life; Board, Nuclear and Radiation Studies; Uranium, Committee on Medical Isotope Production Without Highly Enriched (27 May 2009). Medical Isotope Production Without Highly Enriched Uranium. National Academies Press. ISBN 9780309141093. Retrieved 26 April 2018 – via Google Books.
  7. "UC Berkeley to lead new $25M nuclear science and security consortium". 5 February 2016. Retrieved 26 April 2018.
  8. "UC Berkeley-led consortium receives grant to research nuclear energy, security - The Daily Californian". 31 January 2016. Retrieved 26 April 2018.
  9. "RadWatch project brings near real-time radiation data to the public". Retrieved 26 April 2018.
  10. Black, Richard (16 March 2011). "Surprise 'critical' warning raises nuclear fears". Retrieved 26 April 2018 – via www.bbc.com.
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