1968-73 R. Eötvös University, Budapest, Hungary in Physics 1970 Scholarship of the Hungarian People's Republic 1971 A. Zhdanov State University, Leningrad (St. Petersburg), USSRDegrees:
1973 Masters (Dipl. Phys.) of the R. Eötvös University,
Budapest, Hungary, "With Honours"
1976 Ph.D. (Dr.Rer.Nat.) of the R. Eötvös University,
Budapest, Hungary, "summa cum laude"
1982 Habilitation (C.Sc.) of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences
1988 Habilitation (Dr.Sc.) Higher degree of the Hungarian Acad. Sci.
2004 Dr. honoris causa, of the Babes-Bolyai University, Cluj, Romania
Scientific Career and Employment:
2008- Adjunct Fellow, Frankfurt Inst. for Advanced Studies, FfM Germany
1988- Professor, Physics Department, University of Bergen, Norway
- Appointed by Olav V., King of Norway in 1987
1974- Sci. Advisor (1988-)
Central Research Inst. for Physics, Budapest, Hungary
2000-04 Sci. Director, Bergen Computational Physics Lab.,
EU Researech Infrastucture, Bergen, Norway
1987-01 Consultant, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM, USA
1986-88 Assoc. Professor, NSCL, Michigan State Univ. E Lansing, MI, USA
1984-86 Assistant Professor (part time) and
Research Associate, Univ. of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, USA
1973-74 Staff Physicist and Designer (for the Paks Nuclear Power Plant)
Power Plant and Network Engineering Company, Budapest, Hungary
Honours, Awards:
1968 Prize IX on the National Competition in Mathematics, Hungary
1978 Junior Prize of the Central Res. Inst. for Phys., Budapest
1978 Niveau Prize of the Hungarian Physical Review, (Fiz. Szemle)
1979 Junior Prize of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences
1980 Prize of the Zentralinst. für Kernforsch., Dresden, GDR
1980 Alexander von Humboldt Res. Fellowship (2 years) Bonn, FRG
1983 Jánossy Prize of the Cent. Res. Inst. for Phys., Budapest
1989, 90, 91, 94, 97, 98, 00, 03, 05, 07, 09
Meltzer Grant of the University of Bergen
1988 Invited NATO-ASI Lecturer, Dronten, The Netherlands
1989 Invited NATO-ASI Lecturer, Peniscola, Spain
1992 Invited NATO-ASI Lecturer, Il Ciocco, Italy
1993 Invited NATO-ASI Lecturer, Bodrum, Turkey
2003 Invited NATO-ASI Lecturer, Antalya, Turkey
1997 Alexander von Humboldt Research Prize, Bonn, Germany
1999 Elected Member of Academia Europaea, London
2003 Appoined as Member of the Section Committee for the Physics and
Engineering Section of Academia Europaea
2004 Elected External Member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences
2004 Dr. honoris causa, Babes-Bolyai University, Cluj, Romania
2004 A. v. Humboldt Res. Award Re-invitation, Frankfurt, Germany
2005 Elected Ordinary Member of the Norwegian Academy of Sciences
2006 Chairman of the Physics Engineering Sect. of Academia Europaea
2007 Elected Ordinary Member of the Norwegian Academy of
Technological Sciences, NTVA
2009 A. v. Humboldt Res. Award Re-invitation, Frankfurt, Germany
2010 Honorary Member of the Hungarian Academy of Engineering
Scientific Organizing Activities - Long term assignments:
| 2009- | Member of Nuclear Physics Division Board of European Physical Society |
| 2008- | Member of Council of Academia Europaea |
| 2007- | Member of ERC Evaluation Panel, PE2 - StG for Physics |
| 2006- | Chairman of the Physics & Engineering Section of Academia Europaea |
| 2001-05 | Member of EU FP5 and FP6 Evaluation Panels for Physics of the European Commission |
| 1999-04 | Sci. Director of the Bergen Computational Physics Laboratory |
| 1999-04 | Chairman of the Section for Theoretical and Computational Physics, SENTEF |
| 2004-06 | Honorary editor of Acta Physica Hungarica A - Heavy Ion Physics |
| 1995-03 | Associate editor of Acta Physica Hungarica NS - Heavy Ion Physics |
| 1998-00 | Sci. Project Leader of the NFR CERN Theoretical Physics project |
| 1995-98 | Associate Coordinator of the Nordic Project on Relativistic Heavy Ion Physics, NORDITA, Copenhagen |
| 1994-96 | Member of the NORDITA subcommittee for Nuclear and Hadron Physics Copenhagen |
| 1996-97 | Member of the NuPECC Panel preparing the report "Nuclear Physics in Europe: Higlights and Opportunities" (Europe, 1997) |
| 1996-98 | Deputy Chairman of the Section for Theoretical Physics (SENTEF) |
| 1994-95 | Chairman of the Section for Theoretical Physics (SENTEF) |
| 1991-93 | Co-chairman of the Center for Theoretical Physics - Bergen |
| 1988-94 | Co-director of the Bergen-Oslo Nuclear Theory Team(BONTT) |
TEACHING - Graduate students in the last years:
Espen Fr. Staubo, (1991) Ph.D. degree (dr. scient.) Bergen
Atilla E. Gunhan, (1994) Ph.D. degree (dr. polit.) Bergen
Eugeni Zabrodin, (1994) Ph.D. degree (dr. Philos.) Bergen
Zsolt I. Lazar , (1999) Ph.D. degree (dr. scient.) Bergen
Csaba Anderlik , (2001) Ph.D. degree (dr. scient.) Bergen
Volodymyr Magas , (2001) Ph.D. degree (dr. scient.) Bergen
Agnes Nyiri , (2005) Ph.D. degree, Bergen
Karolis Tamosiunas, (2005) Ph.D. degree, Bergen
Etele Molnar , (2006) Ph.D. degree, Bergen
Jaakko Manninen, (2007) Ph.D. degree, Oulu, Finland
Yun Cheng, (2010) Ph.D. degree, Bergen
Szabolcs Horvat, (2010) Ph.D. degree, Bergen
Atilla E. Gunhan, (1991) Masters degree (cand. polit.) Bergen
Rune Lende, (1994) M.Sc. degree (cand. scient.) Bergen
Agnes Mocsy, (1996) M.Sc. degree (cand. scient.) Bergen
Zong H. Feng, (1996) M.Sc. degree (cand. scient.) Bergen
Zsolt Lazar, (1996) M.Sc. degree (cand. scient.) Bergen
Denes Molnar, (1997) M.Sc. degree (cand. scient.) Bergen
Volodymyr Magas, (1998) M.Sc. degree (cand. scient.) Bergen
Agnes Nyiri, (2001) M.Sc. degree (cand. scient.) Bergen
Karolis Tamosiunas, (2001) M.Sc. degree (cand. scient.) Bergen
Ann C. Gulbrandsen, (2003) M.Sc. degree (cand. scient.) Bergen
Oyvind H. Hansen, (2003) M.Sc. degree (cand. scient.) Bergen
Etele Molnar, (2003) M.Sc. degree (cand. scient.) Bergen
Andrea Anderlik, (2005) M.Sc. degree, Bergen
Hermod Nitter, (2007) M.Sc. degree, Bergen
Szabolcs Horvat, (2007) M.Sc. degree, Bergen
Yun Cheng, (2007) M.Sc. degree, Bergen
Bjoern Baeuchle, (2007) M.Sc. degree Frankfurt/ Main, Germany
Astrid Marie Skålvik, active student for M.Sc. degree, Bergen (2010- )
RESEARCH PUBLICATIONS and CONFERENCES [pdf]
Number of books written: 2
1: Introduction to Relativistic Kinetic Theory, L.P. Csernai and D.Strottman, Chapter 1 in: Relativistic Heavy Ion Physics, ed. by L.P. Csernai and D.D. Strottman, (World Scientific, 1991) Vol I, pp. 1-37.
Number of books edited: 3
Number of invited talks and lectures at int. conferences and schools: 239
BIBLIOMETRIC DATA from ISI on Feb. 15, 2011:
Publications in ISI Basic Source database: 137
Citations in ISI Basic Source database: 2738
Publications in ISI Cited Reference database: 307
Citations in ISI Cited Reference database: 3155
H-index in ISI Basic Source database: 30