Birth: 15th February, 1955, Budapest, Hungary
Citizenship: Hungary
Education: Roland Eötvös University, Budapest, 1974-1979
        Diploma: 1979, physics
        Ph. D. degree: 1982 (summa cum laude).
                Thesis: "Formation and thermal stability of metallic glasses" (1981)
      Candidate of Science degree (given by the Hungarian Academy of Sciences): 1989
                Thesis: "Preparation and thermal stability of amorphous alloys" (1988)
Awards:
        Award for Young Scientists by the Central Research Institute for Physics, 1984
        "Distinguished Young Scientist" title, 1984
        Academic Award for Young Scientists (given by the Hungarian Academy of Sciences), 1989
        Research Award of the Research Institute for Solid State Physics, 1992, 1997, 1999
        Physics Award of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, 2000
        Széchenyi Professorship at Technical University Budapest, 2000-
Languages: English (good); German (basic level); Russian (basic level); Japanese (basic level).
Employer: Research Institute for Solid State Physics and Optics of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences (since 1979)
Position: senior scientist
Address: Research Institute for Solid State Physics and Optics, H-1525 Budapest, POBox 49, Hungary
                Tel.:   (+36) 1 392 2222 Ext.: 3155
                FAX:    (+36) 1 392 2219
                E-mail: grana@szfki.hu
http://www.szfki.hu/expmnt/fields.html#phase
Expertise:
-       Preparation of amorphous alloys by melt-spinning, splat cooling and laser glazing methods.
-       Viscosity measurements on oxide glasses by the parallel plate method.
-       Differential scanning calorimetry for determination of temperatures, heats and kinetics of transformations in metallic glasses (crystallization, relaxation) and C60 derivatives (dimerization, polymerization, phase separation). Theory of transformation kinetics.
-       Modeling of rapid solidification process during melt-spinning, laser glazing and splat-cooling techniques. Theoretical study of microstructure evolution during rapid solidification (planar to dendritic transition, oscillating solidification, compositional changes, etc.).
-       Theory of first-order phase transformations: condensation and crystallization from melt/glasses. Techniques: cluster dynamics and continuum models (Cahn-Hilliard, phase-field, and density functional theory).
Research work abroad:
1985-1986 (15 months): Research Institute of Mineral Dressing and Metallurgy, Tohoku University, Japan. Monbusho scholarship. Viscosity measurements on oxide glasses, modeling of the melt-spinning process.
1989, 1990 (2-2 months): Max-Planck-Intsitut für Eisenforschung, Düsseldorf, Germany. Modeling of rapid solidification and microstructure evolution during rapid solidification (oscillating microstructure).
1992-1993 (14+6 months): Institute for Space Simulation, Deutsche Forschungsanstalt für Luft- und Raumfahrt, Cologne, Germany. Alexander von Humboldt Fellowship. Development of diffuse interface theory of condensation and crystal nucleation.
1997 (3 months): University of Sheffield, British Council Science Fellowship. Nucleation theory (cluster dynamics).
1999 (3 months): The University of Chicago. Description of crystallization (stable and metastable phases) and condensation in the framework of Cahn-Hilliard and density functional techniques.
2002 (1 month): National Institute of Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg, MD, USA. Phase field modeling of particle-dendrite interaction in clay-polymer films.
2003 (3 months): University of Bergen. Phase field modeling of hydrate nucleation.
2003 (1 month): National Institute of Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg, MD, USA. Phase field modeling of crystallization in polymers.
Publications: 116 (see List of Publications); 87 in international scientific journals and 29 in conference proceedings/books.
Independent citations: over 786 (self-citations excluded)
        14 invited talks at international conferences in the past decade. Member of International Advisory Committee at conference on "Physics of Non-Crystalline Solids" (Tucson, Arizona, USA, 1999).
Research Grants:  PI of OTKA grants and of an ESA Prodex project, participant in two ESA MAP projects.
Education activities:  Laboratory practices for undergraduate students/special course on nucleation/crystallization at Technical University Budapest; Special course on nucleation theory at Roland Eötvös Graduate School.
Memberships: ESA Topical Teams "Solidification in Multiphase Multicomponent Systems" and "Solidification of Refractory Metals and Alloys".

Bergen, 27th May, 2003.