Lab director, Advanced Technology and Systems Division
Brian Slovick, Ph.D., leads ATSD’s Space and Survivability Lab, which conducts research and development in optics, materials, and atmospheric physics to support the U.S. Government’s science and national security missions. Dr. Slovick is also a principal investigator developing novel optical and photonic materials and technologies. He is the principal inventor of the metamaterial perfect reflector, a standard nanophotonic component, and the author of SRI’s 4Flux radiative transfer software currently in use at several DoD labs. Dr. Slovick has received 30 contract awards and published more than 30 papers, including highlights in Nature Photonics, Nature Materials, and ACS. He holds a B.S. and M.S. in Physics from San Diego State University and a Ph.D. in Optics and Photonics from CREOL, the College of Optics and Photonics at the University of Central Florida.