Instrument scientist at the Ultra-small angle X-ray scattering instrument (USAXS) located at 9ID beamline. 

Few of about 130 publications:

J. Ilavsky, P.R. Jemian, A.J. Allen, F. Zhang, L.E. Levine, and G.G. Long, Ultra-small-angle X-ray scattering at the Advanced Photon Source, J. Appl. Crystallogr., 2009, 42 (3), p. 469-479
J. Ilavsky, and P.R. Jemian, Irena: tool suite for modeling and analysis of small-angle scattering, J. Appl. Crystallogr., 2009, 42 (2)
F. Zhang, J. Ilavsky, G. Long, J. Quintana, A. Allen, and P. Jemian, Glassy Carbon as an Absolute Intensity Calibration Standard for Small-Angle Scattering, Metallurgical and Materials Transactions A, 2010, 41 (5), p. 1151-1158
F. Zhang, and J. Ilavsky, Ultra-Small-Angle X-ray Scattering of Polymers, Journal of Macromolecular Science, Part C: Polymer Reviews, 2010, 50 (1), p. 59-90
J. Ilavsky, Characterization of Complex Thermal Barrier Deposits Pore Microstructures by a Combination of Imaging, Scattering, and Intrusion Techniques, J. Therm. Spray Technol., 2010, 19 (1-2), p. 178-189
P. Akcora, S.K. Kumar, J. Moll, S. Lewis, L.S. Schadler, Y. Li, B.C. Benicewicz, A. Sandy, S. Narayanan, J. Ilavsky, P. Thiyagarajan, R.H. Colby, and J.F. Douglas, "Gel-like" Mechanical Reinforcement in Polymer Nanocomposite Melts, Macromolecules, 2010, 43 (2), p. 1003-1010
T.E. Mares, A.P. Radlinski, T.A. Moore, D. Cookson, P. Thiyagarajan, J. Ilavsky, and J.r. Klepp, Assessing the potential for CO2 adsorption in a subbituminous coal, Huntly Coalfield, New Zealand, using Small Angle Scattering techniques, International Journal of Coal Geology, 2009, 77, p. 54-68
A.J. Allen, J. Ilavsky, and A. Braun, Multi-scale Microstructure Characterization of Solid Oxide Fuel Cell Assemblies with Ultra Small-Angle X-Ray Scattering, Advanced Engineering Materials, 2009, 11 (6), p. 495-501
P. Akcora, H. Liu, S.K. Kumar, J. Moll, Y. Li, B.C. Benicewicz, L.S. Schadler, D. Acehan, A.Z. Panagiotopoulos, V. Pryamitsyn, V. Ganesan, J. Ilavsky, P. Thiyagarajan, R.H. Colby, and J.F. Douglas, Anisotropic self-assembly of spherical polymer-grafted nanoparticles, Nat Mater, 2009, 8 (4), p. 354-359

Ultra-Small-angle X-ray Scattering technique and its applications in materials science, physics, chemistry, and polymer science. 

Small-angle scattering data reduction and analysis. Absolute instensity calibration of small-angle scattering data.

Characterization of complex engineering materials microstructures using imaging, scattering, and other techniques.

Thermally sprayed coatings, thermal barrier coatings, suspension plasma-sprayed coatings,...

Solid oxide fuel cells and other energy related complex microstructures.

1986    Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic, RNDr. (=MS) in Solid State Physics    

1994   SUNY at Stony Brook, New York, USA, Ph.D. in Materials Science and Engineering                      

2004 – present    Staff Scientist, Advanced Photon Source, Argonne National Laboratory, Argonne, IL 60439
2002 – 2004     Visiting Assistant Professor, Department of Chemical Engineering, Purdue University & Guest Researcher, Ceramics Division, NIST, Gaithersburg
1999- 2002    Senior Research Associate, Department of Chemical Engineering, University of Maryland & Guest Researcher, Ceramics Division, NIST, Gaithersburg.
1996-1998      Scientist, Materials Science Laboratory, Institute of Plasma Physics. ASCR, Prague.
1994-1996     Post doc, The Thermal Spray Laboratory,  SUNY at Stony Brook &  Ceramics Division, NIST, Gaithersburg.
 

2004 – present    Staff Scientist, Advanced Photon Source, Argonne National Laboratory, Argonne, IL 60439
2002 – 2004     Visiting Assistant Professor, Department of Chemical Engineering, Purdue University & Guest Researcher, Ceramics Division, NIST, Gaithersburg
1999- 2002    Senior Research Associate, Department of Chemical Engineering, University of Maryland & Guest Researcher, Ceramics Division, NIST, Gaithersburg.
1996-1998      Scientist, Materials Science Laboratory, Institute of Plasma Physics. ASCR, Prague.
1994-1996     Post doc, The Thermal Spray Laboratory,  SUNY at Stony Brook &  Ceramics Division, NIST, Gaithersburg.
 

Author of widely used Irena package for analysis of small-angle scattering data http://usaxs.xray.aps.anl.gov/staff/ilavsky/irena.html and Nika package for area detector data reduction http://usaxs.xray.aps.anl.gov/staff/ilavsky/nika.html. Also author of Indra package for USAXS data reduction http://usaxs.xray.aps.anl.gov/staff/ilavsky/indra_2.html as well as Clementine http://usaxs.xray.aps.anl.gov/staff/ilavsky/Clementine.html, package for analysis of decay kinetics. All of these packages are for Igor Pro (http://wavemetrics.com/).