Jack Kotovsky

Jack Kotovsky is the Micro and Nanotechnology Section Leader at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL). He has worked at LLNL in the Materials Engineering Division for 23 years. As the section leader, he owns line management responsibility for 250 research staff supporting Micro and Nanotechnologies, biomedical engineering, and additive manufacturing. In his technical roles, he leads efforts to create MEMs sensors to support the Stockpile Stewardship mission and is creating thermal management approaches for future high-power laser systems. He has led a broad variety of technical projects including the fingerprinting and tamper-proofing nuclear weapon inventories for international treaty control, creating thermal safety systems for lithium-ion battery packs and building new methods to study traumatic brain injury.

Jack earned a mechanical engineering Ph.D. from UC Davis in 2005, a business degree from Le Collège des Ingénieurs in Paris in 1993, mechanical engineering B.S. and M.S. degrees from M.I.T. in 1990 and 1992 and a Certificate of National Security Affairs from Texas A&M University. He holds 18 patents and strives to transition his inventions to broad government and commercial use. He and his team recently received the Secretary of Energy Award for his efforts related to pandemic response by creating an FDA-approved ventilator in 5 weeks.

In his spare time, Jack loves inventing, fabricating, dirt biking, comedy, exercising and his family (not necessarily in that order).