Curriculum vitae: László Pusztai
Born: 07 June 1963 (Szeged, Hungary)
Marital status: married (3 children)
Academic qualifications
Doctor of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences (D.Sc.), April 2000: Title of Theses: "Inverse methods for the interpretation of (liquid- and amorphous-) diffraction data"
Candidate of Sciences, January 1992 (Ph.D. issued by the Hungarian Academy of Sciences; closest equivalent is Ph.D.): Title of Thesis: 'Investigation of disordered structures by Reverse Monte Carlo simulation'.
Diploma in Chemistry, July 1987: Awarded first class diploma in Chemistry by L. Eötvös Univ., Budapest, Hungary. (Closest equivalent is M. Sc.)
Research experience
1 February 1999 -
Head, Neutron Physics Laboratory, Research Institute for Solid State Physics and Optics (of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences). Neutron scattering investigation of disordered phases (mostly molecular liquids and solids). Further development of the Reverse Monte Carlo technique.
September 1991 - January 1999
Research fellow at the Laboratory of Theoretical Chemistry, L. Eötvös University. Research on the methodology of the Reverse Monte Carlo simulation and its applications, mainly for glassy materials and molecular liquids, including water.
September 1995 - January 1998
Post doctoral fellow at Studsvik NFL (University of Uppsala, Sweden). Research on MCGR ('Monte Carlo analysis for obtaining G of R') and Reverse Monte Carlo (RMC) for neutron diffraction data analysis. Neutron diffraction experiments on liquid and solid CX4 (X=Cl, Br, I) compounds.
June 1992 - November 1992
Research fellow at the Laboratory of Materials Science, Delft University of Technology (funded by: TU Delft). Research work on the structure of metallic glasses.
July 1990-November 1990
Visitor at Clarendon Laboratory, University of Oxford, funded by 'Széchenyi István Scholarship Foundation', Budapest. Studies of different disordered structures, such as metallic glasses and liquid and amorphous monatomic systems.
September 1988-September 1991
Research student at the Laboratory of Theoretical Chemistry, Loránd Eötvös University, Budapest, funded by the Hungarian Academy of Sciences. Title of project: 'Studies of liquid structures by computer simulation methods'.
October 1987-July 1988
Visiting graduate student at Keble College, University of Oxford. Research at the Clarendon Laboratory; development of the Reverse Monte Carlo method and inelastic neutron scattering measurements on molten alkali chlorides (under the supervision of Prof. R.L. McGreevy).
Publications
About 125 research papers and book chapters in international scientific journals. One book titled "Disorder in condensed phases" (in Hungarian; Akadémiai Kiadó, 1995, Budapest). About 1600 independent citations (as of 23 September 2011).