Last updated: 2008. máj. 15.

Curriculum vitae

I. Personal data

Born: September 19, 1970, Arad, Romania
Marital status: married, mother of one child
Home Address: 400171 Cluj-Napoca, Gruia 58, C2/15, Romania
Telephone: +40-744-606023
Employment: Lecturer, Babeş-Bolyai University, Faculty of Physics, Department of Condensed Matter Physics
Office address: RO-400084, Cluj-Napoca, str. Kogălniceanu 1, Romania
Office phone: +40-264-405300/5156, fax: +40-264-591906
E-mail: [email protected]

II. Studies

• 1985–1989: Industrial Highschool No. 11 (nowadays Csiky Gergely Highschool), Arad, Romania
• 1989–1994: B.Sc., Physics, Babeş-Bolyai University, Faculty of Physics, specialization in condensed matter physics, Cluj-Napoca, Romania
• 1994–1995: M.Sc. in Condensed Matter Physics, Babeş-Bolyai University, Faculty of Physics, Cluj-Napoca, Romania – laboratory work at CNRS Laboratoire de magnetisme “Louis Néel”, Grenoble, France
• 1995–2005: Ph.D., Babeş-Bolyai University, Faculty of Physics. The thesis was defended in September 2005. The title of the thesis: Proprietăţi fizice ale unor aliaje pământ rar – metal de tranziţie (Physical properties of some rare-earth–transition metal alloys). Scientific supervisor: Prof. Dr. Emil Burzo.

III. Scientific career

• 1995–1997: trainee, Babeş-Bolyai University, Faculty of Physics, Department of Mechanics, Thermodynamics and Solid State Physics (nowadays Department of Condensed Matter Physics) (Cluj-Napoca, Romania)
• 1997–2003: assistant lecturer, Babeş-Bolyai University, Faculty of Physics, Department of Mechanics, Thermodynamics and Solid State Physics (nowadays Department of Condensed Matter Physics) (Cluj-Napoca, Romania)
• 2003–...: lecturer, Babeş-Bolyai University, Faculty of Physics, Department of Condensed Matter Physics (Cluj-Napoca, Romania)
• 2005–...: invited lecturer, Babeş-Bolyai University, Faculty of Environmental Sciences, Department of Physics, Chemistry and Technology of the Environment (Cluj-Napoca, Romania)

IV. Scientific area: magnetic and magnetostrictive materials, carbon nanostructures

 

V. Scientific activity

• 2001–2002: member of Synthesis of carbon nanotubes by spray-pyrolysis method and investigation of their properties research programme financed by Sapientia Fund’s Research Institute (Cluj-Napoca, Romania), project leader: Dr. Sándor Darabont;
• 2003–2004: member of Synthesis of carbon nanotubes by spray-pyrolysis method and investigation of their properties research programme financed by Sapientia Fund’s Research Institute (Cluj-Napoca, Romania), project leader: Dr. Sándor Darabont;
• 2004–2005: member of Synthesis of carbon nanotubes by spray-pyrolysis method by using liquid hydrocarbons and metallic catalyst-mixtures, formation of oriented layers and patterns research programme financed by Sapientia Fund’s Research Institute (Cluj-Napoca, Romania), project leader: Dr. Sándor Darabont;
• 2005–2006: member of The effect of the number of carbon atoms and their character on the quantity and quality of obtained carbon nanotubes, and modelling of pattern-formation in nanotubes systems research programme financed by Sapientia Fund’s Research Institute (Cluj-Napoca, Romania), project leader: Dr. Sándor Darabont;
• 2005–2007: member of Elaboration and study of rare-earth and zirconium-based nanostructures research programme financed by the Romanian National University Research Council (C.N.C.S.I.S.) at the Faculty of Physics, Babeş-Bolyai University, project leader: Prof. Dr. Emil Burzo (Cluj-Napoca, RO);
• 2006–2007: member of Synthesis and analysis of single walled and multi-walled carbon nanotubes obtained by spray-pyrolysis of single and mixed carbon sources research programme financed by Sapientia Fund’s Research Institute (Cluj-Napoca, Romania), project leader: Dr. Sándor Darabont.

VI. Teaching activity

 

at the Babeş-Bolyai University, Faculty of Physics:

• Mechanics lab course (B.Sc., compulsory, 2^nd semester)
• Thermodynamics lab course (B.Sc., compulsory, 3^rd semester)
• Environmental Physics course and lab course (B.Sc., compulsory, 7^th semester)
• Physics of fluids course and lab course (B.Sc., compulsory, 8^th semester)

at the Babeş-Bolyai University, Faculty of Environmental Science:

• Introduction in the Physics of the Environment course and lab course (B.Sc., compulsory, 1^st and 2^nd semesters)
• Atmospherical Physics course (B.Sc., compulsory, 3^rd semester)

VII. Scientific honours

• 1995: TEMPUS scholarship at CNRS “Louis Néel” Laboratory of Magnetisme, Grenoble, France;
• 1998: research grant at CNRS “Louis Néel” Laboratory of Magnetisme, Grenoble, France;
• 1999: research grant at CNRS “Louis Néel” Laboratory of Magnetisme, Grenoble, France;
• 2001: research grant of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences and of the Transylvanian Museum Association at Laboratory of Nanostructures of HAS/KFKI.

 

VIII. Other Academic Activities

• 2005–...: talent-care – coordinator of the extracurricular Physics College in the frame of the Hungarian University Institute - Federation from Cluj (Cluj-Napoca, Romania)
• 2005–...: science popularisation – participation with interesting experiments at the annual exhibition Science on Stage held in the Central Park, Cluj-Napoca

IX. Language skills

• Hungarian – mother tongue
• Romanian – fluent
• French – advanced
• English – advanced

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