Studies
/ Qualifications:
- 2006: PhD degree in Physics,
Budapest University of Technology and Economics, Budapest, Hungary
"Investigation and
modification of carbon nanotubes by scanning probe and ion-beam methods"
- 2000: MSc in Atomic Physics,
Babes-Bolyai University, Cluj Napoca, Romania
"Double differential cross
sections for the simultaneous ionization and excitation of the helium
atom"
- 1999: BSc in Physics,
Babes-Bolyai University, Cluj Napoca, Romania
"Double differential cross
sections for the ionization of helium by fast proton and antiproton
impact"
Employment:
- 2016 - : Institute of Technical Physics and Materials Science (MFA), Centre for Energy Research, Hungary - senior researcher
- 2015 - 2016 : Institute of Technical Physics and Materials Science (MFA), Centre for
Energy Research, Hungary - research fellow
- 2012 - 2014 : Institute
of Technical Physics and Materials Science (MFA), Research Centre for
Natural Sciences, Hungary - research fellow
- 2010 - 2012 :
Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Institute
NEEL, Grenoble, France - postdoc
- 2008 - 2010 :
Commissariat à l'Energie Atomique et aux Energies Alternatives (CEA),
Grenoble, France - postdoc
- 2001
- 2008 : Research
Institute for Technical Physics and Materials Science (MFA), Budapest,
Hungary - research assistant
Research
experience:
- 2012 -
: Scanning probe
microscopy on graphene/nanoparticle hybrid systems.
- 2010 - 2012: Elaboration and
characterization of superconducting graphene; charge transport
measurements in superconductor-graphene-superconductor (SGS) Josephson
junctions performed in dilution refrigerator (base temperature of 30
mK); experimental realization of a graphene Andreev billiard.
- 2008 -
2010:
Elaboration and characterization of metal-graphene contacts; study of
superconducting proximity effect at niobium-graphene interfaces by
low-temperature (1.5 K) scanning tunneling microscopy (STM) and
tunneling
spectroscopy (STS).
- 2004 -
2007: STM and
STS investigation of carbon nanotube point defects created by ion
irradiation.
- 2000 -
2003: Investigation of carbon nanotubes and other carbon nanostructures
by scanning
probe methods (STM, STS, AFM).
- 1998 - 2000: Numerical
calculation of double differential cross sections for the ionization and
for the simultaneous ionization and excitation of the helium atom by
fast proton and antiproton impact.
Awards:
- 2019: János Bolyai Research Fellowship (Hungarian Academy of Sciences)
- 2016: MFA (postdoctoral) Prize
- 2013: Marie Curie Career
Integration Grant (EU FP7)
- 2013: János Bolyai Research
Fellowship (Hungarian Academy of Sciences)
- 2006: György Ferenczi Award offered by the Dr. György Ferenczi Foundation