May 28, 2009
| Address at work: | Research Institute for Solid State Physics and Optics (RISSPO),
Hungarian Academy of Sciences (HAS), H-1525 Budapest, P.O.B. 49, Hungary, (Street address: H-1121 Budapest, Konkoly-Thege út 29-33, Hungary) Phone/Fax: (00)-(36-1)-392-2628/2215; E-mail: bakonyi.imre@wigner.mta.hu, homepage: www.szfki.hu/~bakonyi |
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| Personal data: | ||
| Date and place of birth: | 27 March, 1948, Vál (Hungary) | |
| Married, 2 children. | ||
| Nationality/mother tongue: | Hungary/Hungarian | |
| Education: | Eötvös University, Budapest, Hungary (Physics, 1966-1972) | |
| Degrees: | Diploma in physics: Eötvös University, Budapest, Hungary (1972) | |
| Univ. doctor degree (Ph.D.): Eötvös University, Budapest, Hungary (1976) | ||
| Candidate of Physical Science (C.Sc.), Hungarian Academy of Sciences (1991) | ||
| Doctor of Science (D.Sc.), Physics Division, Hungarian Academy of Sciences (2007) | ||
| Language skills: | English (advanced level write and read) | |
| Germain (advanced level write and read) | ||
| Russian (intermediate level write and read) | ||
| French (basic level write and read) | ||
| Positions: | Central Research Institute for Physics (CRIP), HAS, Budapest: |
1972-1976: junior research fellow; |
| 1977-1991: research fellow | ||
| RISSPO, HAS, Budapest: | 1992-2007: senior scientist | |
| 2007-present: scientific advisor | ||
| 1995-present: Head of Metals Research Department | ||
| On leave: | Univ. L. Pasteur (Strasbourg, Dec. 1980 - June 1981, visiting scientist) | |
| Univ. of Munich (Jan. 1985 - Aug. 1986, Humboldt Fellow) | ||
| Max-Planck-Institut (Stuttgart, April 1990 - June 1991, MPI Fellow) | ||
| University of Bristol (Jan.-Mar. 1999, British Council Science Fellow) | ||
| Tokyo Metropolitan University (Aug.-Oct., 2000, TMU International Research Fellow) | ||
| Memberships: | Roland Eötvös Physical Society of Hungary | |
| European Physical Society | ||
| The Materials Research Society | ||
| Awards: | Institute's Annual Award (CRIP, 1976) | |
| Zoltán Gyulai Award (R. Eötvös Physical Society, 1989) | ||
| Jánossy Award (CRIP, 1989) | ||
| Annual Research Award (RISSPO, 1990) | ||
| Annual Publication Award (RISSPO, 2003 and 2006) | ||
| Grants (Hungarian Scientific Research Fund): | ||
| Compositionally modulated alloys (1991-1994) | ||
| Giant magnetotransport phenomena in nanophase metals (1995-1998) | ||
| Preparation and properties of single-phase nanocrystalline metals (1997-2000) | ||
| Tunnelling magnetoresistance in ferromagnetic/insulator nanostructures (2002-2005) | ||
| Giant magnetoresistance in electrodeposited multilayers (2009-2011) | ||
| Hungarian principal investigator of international bilateral projects: | ||
| Hydrogen in amorphous metals (College of William and Mary, Williamsburg, U.S.A., 1985-1987, NSF) | ||
| Electrodeposited thin films (University of Bristol, UK, 1994-1996, British Council | ||
| Magnetic properties of metallic multilayers (Inst. de Physique et Chimie des Materiaux de Strasbourg, France, 1996-1997, CNRS) | ||
| Magnetic domain imaging in nanocrystalline materials (Instituto Nacional de Investigaciones Nucleares, Mexico, 1998-2000) | ||
| Layered magnetic materials (Indian Association for the Cultivation of Science, Calcutta, India, 1998-1999, Ministry of Scienee and Technology of India) | ||
| Magnetic and transport properties of metastable phases and low-dimensional systems (University of Hyderabad, India, 1998-2000, INSA) | ||
| Microstructure, magnetic properties and magnetoresistance of metallic multilayers (Inst. de Physique et Chimie des Materiaux de Strasbourg, France, 1998, CNRS) | ||
| Electrodeposition of nanostructured magnetic materials and their magnetic and magnetotransport characterization (Univ. Uludag, Bursa, Turkey, 2004-2005, TUBITAK) | ||
| GMR multilayer structures (National Institute of Research and Development for Technical Physics, Iasi, Romania, 2006-2007) | ||
| Scientific activity: | A total of 173 research papers in English (139 papers in peer-reviewed international journals with a cumulative impact factor of 204 and 34 papers in conference proceedings) and 2 book chapters, 1 patent; above 1200 citations to published papers; regular refereeing for international journals, for conference proceedings and research grant boards; regular participation in thesis defence committees and acting as thesis evaluator both in Hungary and abroad; 19 invited talks delivered at conferences and co-author of 8 similar invited talks; one-semester lecture course on nanophase metals at Eötvös University, Budapest since 1997; (co-)supervising 1 Ph.D. student in physics, 6 diploma works in physics and 1 in engineering/materials science; hosting 2 NATO and 2 other foreign post-doc fellows as well as 2 Ph.D. students. | |
| Main research topics: | preparation, thermal stability, atomic and electronic structure, electrical transport and magnetic properties of amorphous, nanocrystalline, multilayered and other metastable metallic phases, metal hydrides | |
| Role in scientific community: | 1972 - | member, Roland Eötvös Physical Society, Hungary |
| 1980 | member of Local Executive Board of the Organizing Committee, Conf. on Metallic Glasses: Sci. and Technol. (Budapest, Hungary, 1980); co-editor of the conference proceedings | |
| 1983 | member of the Programme Committee and the Local Organizing Committee, EPS Conf. Soft Magnetic Materials 6 (SMM-6, Eger, Hungary, 1983) [see: J. Magn. Magn. Mater., vol. 41, p. viii (1984)] | |
| 1983 - | member, European Physical Society; www.eps.org | |
| 1988 - 1989 | Secretary, Metals Physics Division, Eötvös Physical Society of Hungary | |
| 1991 - | member, Materials Research Society; www.mrs.org | |
| 1999 | member of Program Committee and Local Organizing Committee, 14th Int. Symp. on Soft Magnetic Materials (SMM-14, Balatonfüred, Hungary, 1999) [see: J. Magn. Magn. Mater., vol. 215-216, pp. xiii-xiv (2000)] | |
| 1999 - 2005 | member, Solid Sate Physics Committee of HAS | |
| 2001 | co-organizer, 1st Int. Workshop on Electrodeposited Nanostructures (EDNANO-1, Budapest, Hungary, 2001) [see: www.szfki.hu/ednano/] | |
| 2002 | Chairman, Organizing Committee, 2nd Int. Workshop on Electrodeposited Nanostructures (EDNANO-2, Budapest, Hungary, 2002) [see: www.szfki.hu/ednano/] | |
| 2004 | Member of Scientific Committee and Organizing Committee, 7th Int. Conf. on Physics of Advanced Materials (Iasi, Romania, 2004) [see: J. Optoel. Adv. Mater., vol. 7, no. 2 (2005)] | |
| 2005 - | Member of Editorial Advisory Board, Journal of Mater. Sci. Technol. (Bulgaria) [see: http://jmst.ims.bas.bg/] | |
| 2005 - 2008 | consortium member, EU FP6 Marie Curie Training Course 'Micro and Nano Deposition'' (MINDE) [see: http://www.east-site.net/] |
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| 2006 - | national representative member, European Academy of Surface Technology (EAST) [see: http://www.east-site.net/] |
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| 2006 - | founding member, EDNANO board, Int. Workshop on Electrodeposited Nanostructures (EDNANO) [see: www.szfki.hu/ednano/] |
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| 2006 | Hungarian Coordinator: INSA-HAS Workshop on Condensed Matter Research: Magnetic Materials (Hyderabad, India, 2006) | |
| 2007 | member, Scientific Committee, Int. Conf. EURO-INTERFINISH 2007: Nanotechnology and Innovative coatings (Athens, Greece) [see: http://www.euro-interfinish2007.gr/] | |
| 2008 | Member of Scientific Committee, 8th Int. Conf. on Physics of Advanced Materials (Iasi, Romania, 2008) [see: https://mail.uaic.ro/~icpam/committees.htm] |
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| 2008 | member, Local Scientific Committee, Int. Conf. on Magnetic Measurements 2008 (Budapest, Hungary) | |
| 2009 | member, Scientific Committee and Advisory Board, 2nd Int. Conf. on Functional Nanocoatings (Dresden, Germany, March 28-31, 2010); www.nanocoatings2010.de | |