Gary Navrotski has been involved in numerous aspects of synchrotron radiation research, X-ray facility instrumentation and beamline operations since 1986. He received his Ph.D. from the Cornell University under the mentorship of Professors Jack Blakely and Boris (Bob) Batterman. His personal areas of research interest include semiconductor surface adlayer 2D phase transformations as well as thin film and materials science investigations. He is currently engaged in facility and instrumentation design for the operation of the Advanced Photon Source (APS).

• Fabrication And Testing Of Corrugated Waveguides For A Collinear Wakefield Accelerator,  IPAC (2023)
• Testing Of A Fan-Out Kicker To Protect Collimators From Low-Emittance Whole-Beam Aborts in the APS Storage Ring,  IPAC (2023)
• Collimator Irradiation Studies At the APS 12th IBIC(2023).
• Collimator Irradiation Studies in the APS at Energy Densities Expected in Next-Generation Storage Ring Light Sources, Phys Rev Accel Beam 25 (2022) 25-043001.
• Collimation And Machine Protection For Low Emittance Rings, IBIC (2022)
• Hydrodynamic And Beam Dynamic Simulations Of Ultra-Low Emittance Whole Beam Dumps in the APS Storage Ring,  NAPAC (2022).
• Study Of Copper Microstructure Produced by Electroforming For The 180-Ghz Frequency Corrugated Waveguide, MEDSI (2020).
• Diagnostics For Collimator Irradiation Studies In Tthe APS Storage Ring, IBIC (2020).
• Simulations Of Beam Strikes On APS Upgrade Collimators Using Flash, Mars, And Elegant, IPAC (2020)
• Lead Shielded Enclosures for CHESS-U, 13^th SRI (2019) APT 15637
• Establishment of new design criteria for GlidCop^® X-ray absorbers, JSR 24 (2017) 402
• Metallurgical Evaluation of Dissimilar Metal Joints…, Proc.(MEDSI2016), 220
• Research & Development on the Storage Ring Vacuum System… Proc.(NAPAC2016)
• Influence of monochromator thermal deformations on X-ray focusing, Nucl.Instrum.Methods A 820 (2016) 164
• High Energy X-ray Micro-tomography … thermally fatigued GlidCop, J.Phys.425(2013)212015
• Hockey-Puck Si Crystal Monochromator (SRI2013)
• High-Heat-Load Rocking Curve Studies of Cryo Contact-Cooled Si DCM (SRI2013)
• X-ray Topography … High-Quality Concave Optics, Denver X-ray Conference (2013)
• High-Heat-Load Studies of Cryogenically Internally Cooled Si DCM…, J.Phys.(SRI2012)
• Thermal fatigue and X-ray Micro-tomography for the analysis of cracks in metals, J.Phys.(SRI2012)
• The Effect of Surface Residual Stress on Performance of High Quality X-Ray Mirrors, San Diego (SPIE 2011)
• Silver on Si(111): Surface Structural Transformations and Trace Contaminant Effects at Submonolayer Coverage, Cornell University (2007)
• A Synchrotron Radiation Primer, A Vacuum Primer, A Comparison of World Synchrotron Radiation Sources, ADC Catalog (2005)
• Goniometer with Nanoradian Accuracy, (MEDSI2002)
• BioCARS 14-ID Diamond Monochromator Retrofit, CARS Tech Note CTN-11 (2002)
• Optical Ray Tracings for the BioCARS Wiggler and Undulator ID Beamline, CTN-10 (2001)

• Scientific Instrumentation Design
• Beamline Engineering & Operation
• X-ray Optics
• Advanced Materials
• Surface / Interface Science

• Ph.D. Cornell University
•    Materials Science          
• P.E. Registered Professional Engineer
•    Illinois and Virginia Licensures
• M.S. The George Washington University
•    Materials Engineering
• B.S. Case Institute of Technology
•    Physics

• Advanced Photon Source
• Moraine Valley Community College (Adj. Faculty)
• Northwestern University (ORD)
• Waubonsee Community College (Adj. Faculty)
• The University of Chicago (CARS)
• Cornell High Energy Synchrotron (CHESS)
• Reynolds Metals Company (R&D Center)
• John Tyler College (Adj. Faculty)
• NASA Langley Research Center  (Mat. Sci. Division)
• Case Institute of Technology (Γ-ray astronomy)

• Advanced Photon Source
• Moraine Valley Community College (Adj. Faculty)
• Northwestern University (ORD)
• Waubonsee Community College (Adj. Faculty)
• The University of Chicago (CARS)
• Cornell High Energy Synchrotron (CHESS)
• Reynolds Metals Company (R&D Center)
• John Tyler College (Adj. Faculty)
• NASA Langley Research Center  (Mat. Sci. Division)
• Case Institute of Technology (Γ-ray astronomy)

Memberships:

• Sigma Xi, The Honorary Scientific Research Society (ΣX)
• American Society for Materials International (ASM)
• American Physical Society (APS)  
• American Vacuum Society (AVS)

Committees:

• Technical Journal SME Reviewer:
•          ASME, JSR
• Canadian Light Source MAC
• ANL Review Committees:
•          LDRD, PRDC-DNH, Chair APS GUP (Instrumentation.) & Engineering Design Review Pannels