Predrag Ujić biography

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Predrag Ujić

Personal Information
	Name and surname:	Predrag Ujić
	Birth date:	13.7.1977
	Place of birth:	Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina

Education

• 1996 – 2002 University of Belgrade , Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Department of Nuclear and Medicine Techniques, Diploma thesis “Ultrasound visualization in medicine”

• 2006 Faculty of Physics, University of Belgrade , Magister thesis degree “Kinematics of radon exhalation from different materials”

• 2011  l'Université de Caen, France, PhD thesis „La réaction ⁷⁸Kr(alpha,gamma) d'intérêt astrophysique en cinématique inverse et l'effet d'écrantage électronique dans la décroissance bêta ”,

Employment

• (2003- ) Vinča Institute of Nuclear Sciences, Laboratory for Nuclear and Plasma Physics, Belgrade

• (2008-2011) Grand Accélérateur National d'Ions Lourds — GANIL, Caen, France
  

Professional experience :

• Participation in the Project Nuclear Physics, Methods and Instruments (2003- )
• Participation in bilateral Slovenian-Serbian project "Population exposure to radon and thoron in living and working environment in Slovenia and Serbia and Montenegro"
• Participation in EC FP6 project: INTAILRISK (Assessment Of Environmental Risk Of Radioactively Contaminated Industrial Tailings), Contract No INCO-CT-2004-509214
• Participation in EC FP6 project: INDUWASTE (Management and Remediation of Hazardous Industrial Wastes in the Western Balkan Countries), Contract N° 515919
• Participation in bilateral French-Serbian CNRS/MSCI collaboration agreement (No 20505 “Towards SPIRAL 2 and EURISOL”)
• Participation in bilateral French-Serbian CNRS/MSCI collaboration agreement “Nuclear structure around doubly magic nuclei. The astrophysical p-process and the alpha capture cross section”
• Participation in bilateral German-Serbian (DAAD/MES) collaboration agreement “Ion-optical development for nuclear structure and reaction experiments in storage rings”

Research interests:

• Nuclear astrophysics (p-process, reactions relevant to CNO cycle, Novae and X-ray bursts)
  
• Nuclear reactions and spectroscopy in Nuclear physics with Radioactive Beams
• Electron screening
  
• Ion optics
• Gas-filled magnetic separators
• Natural radioactivity

Language: English – fluent, French - fluent

Selected Publications

1. Search for Superscreening Effects in a Superconductor, P Ujić, F de Oliveira Santos, M Lewitowicz, NL Achouri, M Assié, B Bastin, C Borcea, R Borcea, A Buta, A Coc, G De France, O Kamalou, J Kiener, A Lepailleur, V Meot, A Pautrat, MG Saint Laurent, O Sorlin, M Stanoiu, V Tatischeff, Physical Review Letters 110 (3), 032501
2. Spectroscopy of 18Na: Bridging the two-proton radioactivity of 19Mg, M Assié, F de Oliveira Santos, T Davinson, F De Grancey, L Achouri, J Alcántara-Núñez, T Al Kalanee, J-C Angélique, C Borcea, R Borcea, L Caceres, I Celikovic, V Chudoba, DY Pang, C Ducoin, M Fallot, O Kamalou, J Kiener, Y Lam, A Lefebvre-Schuhl, G Lotay, J Mrazek, L Perrot, AM Sánchez-Benítez, F Rotaru, M-G Saint-Laurent, Yu Sobolev, N Smirnova, M Stanoiu, I Stefan, K Subotic, P Ujic, R Wolski, PJ Woods, Physics Letters B, Volume 712, Issue 3, 6 June 2012, Pages 198–202
3. Resonances in 19Ne with relevance to the astrophysically important 18F(p, α)15O reaction, DJ Mountford, A St J Murphy, NL Achouri, C Angulo, JR Brown, T Davinson, F de Oliveira Santos, N De Séréville, P Descouvemont, O Kamalou, AM Laird, ST Pittman, P Ujic, PJ Woods, Physical Review C 85 (2), 022801
4. Alpha‐particle capture reactions in inverse kinematics relevant to p‐process nucleosynthesis,Predrag Ujić, Anastasios Lagoyannis, Theo J Mertzimekis, François de Oliveira Santos, S Harissopulos, P Demetriou, L Perrot, Ch Stodel, M‐G Saint‐Laurent, O Kamalou, A Lefebvre‐Schuhl, A Spyrou, MA Amthor, S Grevy, L Caceres, H Koivisto, M Laitinen, J Uusitalo, R Julin, AIP Conference Proceedings 1377, 321
5. First direct lifetime measurement of the 2_ {1}^{+} state in ^{72, 74}Zn: New evidence for a shape transition between N= 40 and N= 42 close to Z= 28, M Niikura, B Mouginot, S Franchoo, I Matea, I Stefan, D Verney, F Azaiez, M Assie, P Bednarczyk, C Borcea, A Burger, G Burgunder, A Buta, L Cáceres, E Clément, L Coquard, G de Angelis, G de France, F de Oliveira Santos, A Dewald, A Dijon, Z Dombradi, E Fiori, C Fransen, G Friessner, L Gaudefroy, G Georgiev, S Grévy, M Hackstein, MN Harakeh, F Ibrahim, O Kamalou, M Kmiecik, R Lozeva, A Maj, C Mihai, O Möller, S Myalski, F Negoita, D Pantelica, L Perrot, Th Pissulla, F Rotaru, W Rother, JA Scarpaci, C Stodel, JC Thomas, P Ujic, Physical Review C 85 (5), 054321
6. Production of neutron-rich fragments with neutron number N> Nprojectile in the reaction 48Ca (60 MeV/nucleon)+ Ta, S Lukyanov, F de Oliveira Santos, C Borcea, G Adamyan, M Assie, R Astabatyan, R Borcea, A Buta, L Caceres, G Georgiev, S Grevy, MN Harakeh, O Kamalou, M Lewitowicz, V Maslov, M Mocko, Yu Penionzhkevich, L Perrot, R Revenko, F Rotaru, MG Saint-Laurent, M Stanoiu, C Stodel, JC Thomas, BM Tsang, P Ujic, Journal of Physics G: Nuclear and Particle Physics 37 (10), 105111
7. ANAMARI Code for Gas-Filled Separators as Tool for Super Separator Spectrometer Design Study, P.Ujić, K. Subotić, I. Čeliković, D. Dragosavac, Journal of Research in Physics, Volume 31 Number 2 December 2007, page 137-140
8. Production of super heavy elements by inverse fission, I.Čeliković, P.Ujić, K. Subotić, D. Dragosavac, Journal of Research in Physics, Volume 31 Number 2 December 2007, page 141-144
9. INES (INtermediate Energy Spallation) code for Simulation of Intermediate Energy Spallation, D.Jordanov, K. Subotić, D. Dragosavac, P. Ujić, I. Čeliković, Journal of Research in Physics, Volume 31 Number 2 December 2007, page 133-136
10. PRISMA Spectrometer EVR Spectra and Collection Efficiencies in Gas-Filled Mode, Dragosavac, D. R.; Ujić, P. N.; Scarlassara, F.; Subotić, K. M., SIXTH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE OF THE BALKAN PHYSICAL UNION . AIP Conference Proceedings, Volume 899, pp. 532-532 (2007). DOI: 10.1063/1.2733273
11. Internal exposure from building materials exhaling 222Rn and 220Rn as compared to external exposure due to their natural radioactivity content, P Ujić, I Čeliković, A Kandić, I Vukanac, M Đurašević, D Dragosavac, ZS Žunić, Applied Radiation and Isotopes 68 (1), 201-206
12. Standardization and difficulties of the thoron exhalation rate measurements using an accumulation chamber, P Ujić, I Čeliković, A Kandić, Z Žunić, Radiation Measurements 43 (8), 1396-1401
13. Comparison of retrospective and contemporary indoor radon measurements in a high-radon area of Serbia, Z.S. Žunić, I.V. Yarmoshenko, K. Kelleher, J. Paridaens, J.P. Mc Laughlin, I. Čeliković, P. Ujić, A.D. Onischenko, S. Jovanović, A. Demajo, A. Birovljev and F. Bochicchio, Science of The Total Environment,  Volume 387, Issues 1-3,  15 November 2007, Pages 269-275
14. A campaign of discrete radon concentration measurements in soil of Niška Banja town, Serbia, Z.S. Žunić, K. Kozak, G. Ciotoli, R.C. Ramola, E. Kochowska, P. Ujić, I. Čeliković, J. Mazur, M. Janik, A. Demajo, A. Birovljev, F. Bochicchio, I.V. Yarmoshenko, D. Kryeziu and P. Olko, Radiation Measurements,  Volume 42, Issue 10,  November 2007, Pages 1696-1702
15. Radon survey in the high natural radiation region of Niška Banja, Serbia, Z.S. Žunic, I.V. Yarmoshenko, A. Birovljev, F. Bochicchio, M. Quarto, B. Obryk, M. Paszkowski, I. Čeliković, A. Demajo, P. Ujić, M. Budzanowski, P. Olko, J.P. McLaughlin and M.P.R. Waligorski, Journal of Environmental Radioactivity,  Volume 92, Issue 3,  2007, Pages 165-174
16. High natural radiation exposure in radon spa areas: a detailed field investigation in Niška Banja (Balkan region), Z.S. Žunić, I. Kobal, J. Vaupotič, K. Kozak, J. Mazur, A. Birovljev, M. Janik, I. Čeliković, P. Ujić, A. Demajo, G. Krstić, B. Jakupi, M. Quarto and F. Bochicchio, Journal of Environmental Radioactivity,  Volume 89, Issue 3,  2006, Pages 249-260