Lászlo Pál Csernai#
| Membership Number: | 1924 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | PHYSICS & ENGINEERING SCIENCES |
| Elected: | 1999 |
| Main Country of Residence: | NORWAY |
| Homepage(s): | http://web.ift.uib.no/~csernai |
Present and Previous Positions
- 2008- Adjunct Fellow, Frankfurt Inst. for Advanced Studies, FfM Germany
- 1988- Professor, Physics Department, University of Bergen, Norway - Appointed by Olav V., King of Norway in 1987
- 1974- Sci. Advisor (1988-), Central Research Inst. for Physics, Budapest, Hungary
- 2000-04 Sci. Director, Bergen Computational Physics Lab., EU Researech Infrastucture, Bergen, Norway
- 1987-01 Consultant, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM, USA
- 1986-88 Assoc. Professor, NSCL, Michigan State Univ. E Lansing, MI, USA
- 1984-86 Assistant Professor (part time) and Research Associate, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, USA
- 1973-74 Staff Physicist and Designer (for the Paks Nuclear Power Plant), Power Plant and Network Engineering Company, Budapest, Hungary
Fields of Scholarship
- Theoretical high energy nuclear physics
- Relativistic heavy ion collisions
- Relativistic statistical physics
- Relativistic fluid dynamics
- Shocks, detonations, deflagrations
- Methods from general relativity
- Field theory and neural networks
Honours and Awards
- 1980 Alexander von Humboldt Res. Fellowship (2 years) Bonn, FRG
- 1983 Jánossy Prize of the Cent. Res. Inst. for Phys., Budapest
- 1989, 90, 91, 94, 97, 98, 00, 03, 05, 07, 09 Meltzer Grant of the University of Bergen
- 1997 Alexander von Humboldt Research Prize, Bonn, Germany
- 1999 Elected Member of Academia Europaea, London
- 2003 Appoined as Member of the Section Committee for the Physics and Engineering Section of Academia Europaea
- 2004 Elected External Member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences
- 2004 Dr. honoris causa, Babes-Bolyai University, Cluj, Romania
- 2004 A. v. Humboldt Res. Award Re-invitation, Frankfurt, Germany
- 2005 Elected Ordinary Member of the Norwegian Academy of Sciences
- 2006 Chairman of the Physics Engineering Sect. of Academia Europaea
- 2007 Elected Ordinary Member of the Norwegian Academy of Technological Sciences, NTVA
- 2009 A. v. Humboldt Res. Award Re-invitation, Frankfurt, Germany
