Michael Pravica
University of Nevada, USA
Biography
Michael Pravica is an associate professor of physics at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas (UNLV) and a member of the High Pressure Science and Engineering Center (HiPSEC) there. He obtained his B.Sc. degrees in physics and applied mathematics (with honors) from Caltech in 1988. Prof. Pravica then went on to earn his A.M. and Ph.D. degrees from Harvard University performing high pressure NMR experiments of molecular hydrogen. Prof. Pravica’s research interests involve the study of organic materials (including explosives) and inorganic materials under extreme conditions of pressure, temperature, and ionizing radiation. He has also enabled a new field of science that he terms useful hard x-ray induced chemistry wherein the highly penetrating, highly ionizing, and highly focused properties of hard x-rays are harnessed to perform in situ and highly controllable chemistry.
Abstract
Abstract : Synthesis of novel materials via hard x-ray photochemistry