Nemanja Jovanovic

Nemanja Jovanovic received the B. Tech. Optoelectronics degree from Macquarie University, Sydney, NSW, Australia, in 2004, the honors degree and Ph.D. degree from the same institute in 2005 and 2010, respectively. From 2010 to 2012, he worked as a Postdoctoral on astrophotonics jointly appointed between Macquarie University and the Australian Astronomical Observatory, where he was involved with the development of integrated photonic components such as spectrographs, Bragg gratings, photonic lanterns and pupil remappers. He worked with Subaru Telescope between 2012 and 2017 as part of the SCExAO instrument where he demonstrated efficient injection into single mode fibers on-sky for the first time. He is currently working with California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, USA as a Senior Instrument Scientist developing advanced instruments for the largest ground based telescopes. His current research interests continue to be the development and implementation of photonic components to astronomical instruments.