Dr. Vladivoj (Vlado) Valkovic, a retired professor of physics, is a fellow of the American

Physical Society and Institute of Physics (London). He has authored 22 books (from Trace

Elements (Taylor & Francis, Ltd., 1975) to Radioactivity in the Environment (Elsevier, 1st

Edition 2001, 2nd Edition, 2019)) and more than 400 scientific and technical papers in the

research areas of nuclear physics and applications of nuclear techniques to trace element

analysis in biology, medicine and environmental research. He has lifelong experience in

the study of nuclear reactions induced by 14 MeV neutrons. This research has been done

through coordination and works on many national and international projects, including

US-Croatia bilateral, NATO, IAEA, EU-FP5, EU-FP6 and EU-FP7 projects.

He had worked as a professor of physics at Rice University, Houston, Texas; as a Head

of Physics-Chemistry-Instrumentation Laboratory at IAEA, Vienna, Austria; and as

Laboratory head and scientific advisor at the Rüer Boskovi¿ Institute, Zagreb, Croatia.