!! Lászlo Pál Csernai - Curriculum Vitae
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__Education__
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*1968-73 R. Eötvös University, Budapest, Hungary in Physics
*1970    Scholarship of the Hungarian People's Republic
*1971    A. Zhdanov State University, Leningrad (St. Petersburg), USSR
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__Degrees __
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*1973 Masters (Dipl. Phys.) of the R. Eötvös University, Budapest, Hungary,  "With Honours" 1976 Ph.D. (Dr.Rer.Nat.) of the R. Eötvös University, Budapest, Hungary, "summa cum laude" 
*1982 Habilitation (C.Sc.) of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences 
*1988 Habilitation (Dr.Sc.) Higher degree of the Hungarian Acad. Sci. 
*2004 Dr. honoris causa, of the Babes-Bolyai University, Cluj, Romania
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__Scientific Career and Employment__
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*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,    Univ. 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
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__Honours, Awards__
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*1968  Prize IX on the National Competition in Mathematics, Hungary
*1978  Junior Prize of the Central Res. Inst. for Phys., Budapest 
*1978  Niveau Prize of the Hungarian Physical Review, (Fiz. Szemle)
*1979  Junior Prize of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences
*1980  Prize of the Zentralinst. für Kernforsch., Dresden, GDR
*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
*1988  Invited NATO-ASI Lecturer, Dronten, The Netherlands
*1989  Invited NATO-ASI Lecturer, Peniscola, Spain
*1992  Invited NATO-ASI Lecturer, Il Ciocco, Italy
*1993  Invited NATO-ASI Lecturer, Bodrum, Turkey
*2003  Invited NATO-ASI Lecturer, Antalya, Turkey
*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
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__Scientific Organizing Activities - Long term assignments__
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*2009- Member of Nuclear Physics Division Board of European Physical Society  
*2008-  Member of Council of Academia Europaea  
*2007-  Member of ERC Evaluation Panel, PE2 - StG for Physics  
*2006-  Chairman of the Physics & Engineering Section of Academia Europaea  
*2001-05 Member of EU FP5 and FP6 Evaluation Panels for Physics of the European Commission  
*1999-04 Sci. Director of the Bergen Computational Physics Laboratory  
*1999-04 Chairman of the Section for Theoretical and Computational Physics, SENTEF  
*2004-06 Honorary editor of Acta Physica Hungarica A - Heavy Ion Physics  
*1995-03 Associate editor of Acta Physica Hungarica NS - Heavy Ion Physics  
*1998-00 Sci. Project Leader of the NFR CERN Theoretical Physics project  
*1995-98 Associate Coordinator of the Nordic Project on Relativistic Heavy Ion Physics, NORDITA, Copenhagen  
*1994-96 Member of the NORDITA subcommittee for Nuclear and Hadron Physics Copenhagen  
*1996-97 Member of the NuPECC Panel preparing the report "Nuclear Physics in Europe: Higlights and Opportunities" (Europe, 1997)  
*1996-98 Deputy Chairman of the Section for Theoretical Physics (SENTEF)  
*1994-95 Chairman of the Section for Theoretical Physics (SENTEF)  
*1991-93 Co-chairman of the Center for Theoretical Physics - Bergen  
*1988-94 Co-director of the Bergen-Oslo Nuclear Theory Team(BONTT)  
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__RESEARCH PUBLICATIONS and CONFERENCES__
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Number of books written: 2 
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1: Introduction to Relativistic Kinetic Theory, L.P. Csernai and D.Strottman, Chapter 1 in: Relativistic Heavy Ion Physics, ed. by L.P. Csernai and D.D. Strottman, (World Scientific, 1991) Vol I, pp. 1-37. 
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2: Introduction to Relativistic Heavy Ion Collisions, L. Csernai, (John Wiley &Sons, 1994) ISBN-471-93420-8. 
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Number of books edited: 3 
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Number of invited talks and lectures at int. conferences and schools: 239 
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__BIBLIOMETRIC DATA from ISI on Dec. 11, 2009: __
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*Publications in ISI Basic Source database: 131 
*Citations in ISI Basic Source database: 2581 
*Publications in ISI Cited Reference database: 301 
*Citations in ISI Cited Reference database: 2993 
*H-index in ISI Basic Source database: 29