Personal data:

Place of birth: Galvács, Hungary

Date of birth: September 18, 1952

Occupation: Physicist, Professor

Marital status: married, father of three children

Home: 4028 Debrecen, Bekecs u. 2/B, Hungary

Phone: +36 30 984-6920

Position: Professor of Physics, Institute of Physics, University of Debrecen, 4032 Debrecen, Bem tér 18/C.

Phone: +36 70 436 3706

E-mail: jozsef.palinkas.mail@gmail.com

Scientific degree: ordinary member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, PhD in physics

Language skill: fluent in English

Professional experience/Academic History/Education:

President: 2015 – 2018 National Research, Development and Innovation Office

Government Commissioner for Research, Development and Innovation: 2014 Prime Minister’s Office

President: 2008–2014 Hungarian Academy of Sciences

President: 2007–2008 Centre of Arts, Humanities and Sciences, University of Debrecen

Director of Institute: 2006–2013 Institute of Physics, Faculty of Science, University of Debrecen

Head of Department 1996–2013 Department of Experimental Physics, Faculty of Science, University of Debrecen

Minister of Education: 2001–2002

State Secretary of Education: 1998–2001

President: 1996–1997 University of Debrecen

Professor of Physics 1995– Department of Experimental Physics, Faculty of Science, University of Debrecen

Director: 1991–1996 Institute for Nuclear Physics of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences

Research Professor: 1995– Institute for Nuclear Physics of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences

Senior Scientist: 1989–1990 Institute for Nuclear Physics of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences

Visiting Scientist: 1988–1989 Manne Siegbahn Institute, Stockholm, Sweden Postdoctoral fellow: 1983–1985 Cyclotron Institute, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas, USA Staff scientist: 1981–1989 PhD student: 1977–1981 Institute for Nuclear Physics of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences

Scientific degrees: Ordinary member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences: 2004 Corresponding member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences: 1995 Habilitation (Kossuth University, Debrecen) 1994 Doctor of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences in Physics: 1989 PhD: (Kossuth University) 1981 MSc: (József Attila University, Szeged) 1977

Publications: Authored or coauthored more than 1 100 scientific publications. These have been cited by more than 32 281 times in the literature, his Hirsch-index is: 74. The details of his scientific work can be found in the MTMT data base www.mtmt.hu of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, and other scientific data bases (e.g. Google Scholar). Topics of research interest: Search for the Higgs bosons at LHC with the CMS experiment 2006– Interaction of ions with free atoms and with atoms in solids 2002– Investigation of high temperature plasma 2002 – Search for Higgs-bosons at LEP with the OPAL detector 1995–2000 Investigation of the electronic structure of atoms and molecules in solids 1996– Investigation of the dynamics of ion-atom collisions using electron spectroscopy 1985– Investigation of the dynamics of ion-atom collisions using x-ray spectroscopy 1981– Investigation of electron-atom collisions using x-ray spectroscopy 1977–

Membership in international and Hungarian professional organizations:

Science Europe 2011–2014 Member of the Governing Board 2011–2013

European Academy of Arts and Sciences: 2010 ‒

European Academies Science Advisory Council (EASAC) 2008–2015 Vice-president 2010 – 2015

IUPAP Commission on Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics: 1995–1998

Academia Europaea: 2009–

World Science Forum, President: 2008 – 2015

Hungarian Accreditation Committee: 1994–1998 Vice-president: 1997–1998

Hungarian Atomic Energy Committee: 1994–1997

European Committee on Future Accelerators, 1993–1998

General Committee of the Int. Conf. on Electronic and Atomic Collisions, 1993–1997

Committee on Atomic and Molecular Physics, Hungarian Academy of Sciences: 1991 – President: 1994–1998

Eötvös Loránd Physical Society: 1977 –