| Professor of Physics |
Telephone: |
+1-517-355-9702 |
| Physics and Astronomy Department |
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+1-517-884-5637 |
| 4231 Biomedical & Physical Sci. Bldg. |
FAX: |
+1-517-353-4500 |
| Michigan State University |
E-mail: |
tomanek [at] pa.msu.edu |
| East Lansing, MI 48824-2320, USA |
URL: |
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http://www.pa.msu.edu/people/tomanek/ |
Personal Data
| Date of Birth: |
July 10, 1954 |
| Birth Place: |
Prague (Czech Republic) |
| Gender: |
male |
| Marital Status: |
single |
| Citizenship: |
Swiss, U.S. |
| Languages: |
German, English, French, Czech, (Russian) |
Education
| 1983 |
Ph.D. (Dr. rer. nat.) |
Theoretical Physics, Freie Universität Berlin, Germany |
| 1979 |
M.S. (Diploma) |
Theoretical Physics, University of Basel, Switzerland |
Employment and Professional Experience
| 1987–present |
Professor of Physics, Departments of Physics and Astronomy,
Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI |
| 1985-1987 |
Assistant Professor of Physics on leave, Freie Universität Berlin, and
Post-Doctoral Fellow, University of California, Berkeley, CA |
|
1985 |
Post-Doctoral Fellow, AT&T Bell Labs. |
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1979–1985 |
Research Assistant at the Freie Universität Berlin |
Honors
| 2005 |
Fellow of the American Physical Society |
| 2005 |
Alexander-von-Humboldt Foundation Distinguished Senior Scientist Award |
| 2008 |
American Physical Society Outstanding Referee Award |
| 2008 |
Japan Carbon Award for Life-Time Achievement |
Visiting Positions
| 1983 |
Solid State Theory Group at the Centro Atomico Bariloche, Argentina |
| 1985 |
AT&T Bell Labs, Murray Hill, New Jersey |
| 1994 |
Laboratoire Aime Cotton of the CNRS, Universite Paris-Sud, Orsay, France |
| 1994 |
Department of Physics, National University of Singapore |
| 1994 |
Rice Quantum Institute, Rice University, Houston, USA |
| 1995 |
Universita di Roma "La Sapienza", Rome, Italy |
| 1995 |
Fritz–Haber Institut der Max–Planck Gesellschaft, Berlin, Germany |
| 1995 |
Physics Institute of Chalmers University, Gothenburg, Sweden |
| 1999 |
Physics Institute of the University of Coimbra, Portugal |
| 2000 |
Department of Physics, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Tokyo, Japan
(Invited Interdisciplinary Foreign Professor) |
| 2001-2002 |
School of Physics, Seoul National University, Seoul, Korea
(Distinguished Visiting Professor of Physics) |
| 2002 |
Visiting Professor, NEC Tsukuba Fundamental Research Labs. |
| 2005 |
Vielberth Visiting Professor, University of Regensburg, Germany |
| 2005 |
VTT Professor of Physics, Helsinki University of Technology, Finland |
| 2006-2007 |
Humboldt Professor of Physics, University of Regensburg, Germany |
| 2009 |
International Scholar, Kyung Hee University, Korea |
| 2010 |
Senior research fellow, CECAM, EPFL, Switzerland |
Professional Activities
- Author or co-author, 204 scholarly publications in
Theoretical Condensed Matter Physics.
- Member, Editorial Advisory Board of the Materials Science forum.
Member, Editorial Advisory Board of Materials Express.
Executive Committee member, Fullerenes Group of the Electrochemical Society.
Member, American Physical Society.
- Organizer and initiator,
International Cluster Workshops (ICW'91, ICW'92, ICW'93),
International Conferences on the Science and Application of Nanotubes
(NT'99, NT'01, NT'02, NT'04, NT'05, NT'06, NT'07, NT'08, NT'09),
Quantum Transport conferences (QTSM'02/QFS'02).
- Coordinator,
The Nanotube Site at
http://www.pa.msu.edu/cmp/csc/nanotube.html.
- Holds three patents related to nanotechnology.
Research Experience
Development and application of numerical techniques for structural,
electronic, transport and optical properties of surfaces, low-dimensional
systems and nanostructures. Computer simulations of self-assembly processes
and physical properties of fullerenes, nanotubes, nanowires, polymers,
layered systems, ferrofluids, metallic and magnetic clusters.
List of Publications (204 publications; h-index 50)
See complete list of publications at
http://www.pa.msu.edu/people/tomanek/publications.html
List of Invited and Contributed Presentations
See complete list of presentations at
http://www.pa.msu.edu/people/tomanek/presentations.html
Patent Applications
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"Procedure and Container for a Planned Delivery of an
Active Substance". German Patent Application of
Peter Borrmann, David Tománek,
Philippe Jund, and Seong Gon Kim.
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"Micro-Fastening System and Method of
Manufacture". U.S. Patent 7,181,811 of David Tománek,
Richard J. Enbody, and Young-Kyun Kwon, issued February 27, 2007.
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"Nanocapsules containing charged particles, their
uses and methods of forming the same". U.S. Patent
6,473,351 of D. Tománek, Richard J. Enbody,
Young-Kyun Kwon, Mark Brehob, issued October 29, 2002.
Link to a
Narrative Curriculum Vitae
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