Distinguished Achievement Award in Energy Engineering and Fuel Science
Ljubisa R. Radovic retired as a professor of energy and mineral engineering from the John and Willie Leone Family Department of Energy and Mineral Engineering in 2022. He served Penn State for thirty-seven years, beginning as an assistant professor of fuel science in 1986.
Radovic‘s research focused on kinetics, catalysis and molecular modeling of carbon reactions; physical, chemical and electrochemical properties of graphene-based materials; air and water pollution control using carbonaceous adsorbents and reactants; gas/solid reactions and heterogeneous catalysis; and coal and biomass pyrolysis and gasification methodology.
Throughout his career, Rodavic consulted with numerous international companies and was a member of many professional societies and committees. In the American Carbon Society, he was a member of the advisory committee (1989 - 95, 2007 - 2010), executive committee (1996 - 1999, 2010 - 2016), and served as secretary-treasurer from 1996 - 1999.
Radovic has written over 120 publications in peer-reviewed journals and has both authored, and co-authored, a book. In 1990, he received the Pergamon Press Award for the best paper published in the journal Carbon. Additionally, Radovic served as editor-in-chief at Carbon from 1998 - 2003 and editor for Chemistry and Physics of Carbon, a series of advances published from 1998 - 2018.
Prior to Penn State, Rodavic worked at several institutions including the Boris Kidric Institute of Nuclear Sciences in Belgrade, the department of chemical engineering at the University of Concepción in Chile, and the department of chemical engineering at Polytechnic University (formerly Polytechnic Institute of New York).
He earned a Ph.D. in fuel science from Penn State and a B.S. in chemical engineering from the University of Belgrada.