Cedomir Petrovic Receives Tenure
March 12, 2009
Brookhaven Science Associates (BSA) granted tenure effective December 1, 2008, to eight Brookhaven scientists. They are Elaine DiMasi, National Synchrotron Light Source; Rita Goldstein, Medical Department; Yangang Liu, Environmental Sciences Department; Hong Ma, Physics Department; Cedomir Petrovic, Condensed Matter Physics and Materials Science Department (CMPMS); Triveni Rao, Instrumentation Division; Tonica Valla, CMPMS; and Paul Vaska, Medical. Tenure appointments are granted by action of the BSA Board after a rigorous selection procedure overseen by the BSA Science & Technology Steering Committee. In making tenure decisions, the BSA Board is advised by members of the Brookhaven Council, an elected body that advises the Director on matters affecting the scientific staff. This is the fifth in a series of profiles.
Cedomir Petrovic
Cedomir Petrovic, a physicist in the Condensed Matter Physics & Materials Science Department (CMPMS), was awarded tenure for his world-class research in materials synthesis.
Said CMPMS Department Chair Peter Johnson, "Cedomir has established an international reputation for the synthesis of new materials, an activity of critical importance for both BNL and for condensed matter physics research in the U.S. One of his most important achievements has been his synthesis and characterization of the heavy-fermion system cerium-cobalt-indium (CeCoIn5), a superconductor with the highest known superconducting temperature in this class of materials. His two papers reporting this discovery had outstanding impact and have been cited more than 253 and 245 times each."
Petrovic has co-authored 62 journal articles, averaging over 10 publications per year in 2004-07. These include two articles in Science, 14 in Physical Review Letters, three in Europhysics Letters, and 20 in Physical Review B.
At BNL, Petrovic has built his own lab for exploratory syntheisis of new superconducting materials. In addition, the quality and size of the crystals he makes have been said to hold the absolute record for the purest and best single crystals of a heavy fermion compound or any other correlated electron material. He produced the world's largest crystals of compounds of ytterbium-rhodium-silicon (YbRh2Si2) and cerium-cobalt-indium (CeCoIn5), enabling a series of inelastic magnetic neutron scattering experiments to be done for the first time, and he has contributed to the synthesis and characterization of many other materials of interest.
Petrovic received his Ph.D. in physics from Florida State University in 2000, and he joined the BNL Physics Department as an assistant physicist in 2002. He was promoted to associate physicist in 2004 and physicist in 2006. He moved to the new CMPMS department and is currently in the molecular beam epitaxy group.
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