Gyula
Faigel curriculum vitae
ADDRESS:
Research Institute for Solid State Physics Budapest, 114 POB
49.
H-1525 Hungary
PERSONAL DATA:
Born September 17, 1954 in Ormosbánya, Hungary. Married,with
one child.
EDUCATION:
1974-1979: Undergraduate at the Natural Science Faculty of
the Loránd Eötvös University Budapest in the Physics Faculty. M.Sc. Thesis
title: "The study of the local order in As-Te calcogenid glasses"
M.Sc. degree excellent".
1979-1981: Graduate student, Central Research Institute for
Physics. Ph.D. Thesis title: "Setting up of an EXAFS spectrometer".
Ph.D. degree "summa cum laude".
1988: Academic degree: "The Candidate of Physical
Sciences", Hungarian Academy of Sciences. Thesis title: Investigation of
Nuclear Bragg Scattering".
1998 Academic degree: „ Doctor of the Hungarian Academy of
Sciences” Title: Nuclear Resonant Scattering in Solid State Physics”
2001 Member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences
PROFESSIONAL POSITIONS:
1981-1985: Scientific coworker, Central Research Institute
for Physics
1985-1987: Visiting Scientist at Brookhaven National
Laboratory
1987-1989: Scientific worker, Central Research Institute for
Physics
1989-present: Research Professor, leader of X-ray Laboratory
in Research Institute for Solid State Physics and Optics
HONORS & AWARDS:
1981: Award for Young Scientists founded by Central Research
Institute for Physics
1984: Award for Young Scientists founded by Central Research
Institute for Physics
1994 Gyulai
Zoltán honor of the Physical Society of
Eotvos Roland
1996 Award for Senior Scientists founded by Hungarian
Academy of Sciences
1999 Széchenyi Prize of the
Hungarian Republic
MEMBERSHIPS:
Rorland Eötvös Physical Society
European Synchrotron Radiation Society
IUPAP
MAIN RESEARCH TOPICS:
X-ray
and g-ray spectroscopy
of condensed rnatter. Powder and single crystal diffraction and structure
analysis. Nuclear resonance scattering and X-ray holography. Fullerenes, low
dimensional systems, amorphous materials, artificial structures, single
molecule imaging.