Jasmina Vujic

Jasmina Vujic Ph.D. is an American professor of nuclear engineering at University of California, Berkeley and the first woman to serve as chair of a collegiate nuclear engineering department in the United States.[1][2]

Jasmina Vujic
Born
Loznica, Serbia
NationalitySerbian-American
Alma materUniversity of Michigan (M.Sc.) (Ph.D.) University of Belgrade (B.Sc) (M.Sc.)
OccupationNuclear Engineering Professor at Berkeley
Known forFirst female head of a nuclear engineering department in the United States.

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.[3] 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.[3] She then worked at the Argonne National Laboratory before starting her career at Berkeley.[3] She has also been involved in educational initiatives in Serbia, like giving a speech at a summer math camp for children.[4]

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.[5] From 2005 to 2009, she was chair of Berkeley's nuclear engineering school, making her the first American woman to head such a department.[6]

Her current research interests include reactor core design and biomedical applications of radiation, as well as neutron and photon transport.[7] Vujic has published over 240 papers, with about one quarter of them appearing in top archival journals.[8] She has given numerous presentations and lectures abroad and in the United States.

Vujic is a member of RadWatch, a Berkeley project that provides data on radiation to the public.[9] She is a leading specialist on nuclear reactors and has been quoted in the news media on such issues.[10][8] From 2010 to 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.[3]

Awards

Vujic has received numerous professional and charitable awards throughout her career, including Berkeley's 1996 Prytanean Faculty Award and the 1991 American Nuclear Society best paper award.[8][3]

Politics

In 2015, during an interview on Our Story, a Serbian television news program hosted by journalist Marina Dabic, Vujic stated that she opposed the Serbian government's sale of Telekom Srbija because the sale would eliminate thousands of jobs and enrich corrupt Serbian government officials.[11][12]

Vukic is a member of the far-right Dveri party in Serbia, and has served their vice-president.[13]

References
  1. "Nobelova nagrada je ispolitizovana". www.novosti.rs. Retrieved 26 April 2018.
  2. "Department History". nuc.berkeley.edu. Retrieved 2020-07-30.
  3. http://hpschapters.org/ncchps/BIO_-_Jasmina_Vujic.doc
  4. "Mladi matematičari kao nastavnici". 20 August 2017. Retrieved 26 April 2018.
  5. "Jasmina Vujic - Berkeley Nuclear Engineering". www.nuc.berkeley.edu. Retrieved 26 April 2018.
  6. "Department History". nuc.berkeley.edu. Retrieved 2020-07-30.
  7. "Jasmina L. Vujic - Research UC Berkeley". vcresearch.berkeley.edu. Retrieved 26 April 2018.
  8. 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.
  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.
  11. "Telecom is Ours (translation)". YouTube.
  12. "Our Story: Jasmina Vujic, the Woman Who Saved Telekom (translation)". YouTube.
  13. "Berkeley Nuke Prof's Side Gig: Far-Right Serbian Activist". Retrieved 26 July 2020.
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