Tomáš Jungwirth#
| Membership Number: | 3870 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | PHYSICS & ENGINEERING SCIENCES |
| Elected: | 2014 |
| Main Country of Residence: | CZECH REPUBLIC |
| Homepage(s): | http://www.fzu.cz/~jungw |
Present and Previous Positions
- 2007 - present Head of the Department of Spintronics and Nanoelectronics, Institute of Physics, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic (ASCR)
- 2004 - present Professor, University of Nottingham, UK
- 2001 - 2007 Senior Research Scientist, Institute of Physics ASCR
- 2000 - 2004 Research Fellow and Adjunct Professor, University of Texas, USA
- 1997 - 1999 Postdoctoral Fellow, Indiana University, USA
- 1997 PhD. degree in condensed matter physics, Charles University, Czech Republic
- 1991 M.S. degree in physics, Charles University, Czech Republic
Fields of Scholarship
- Nanoelectronics
- Materials science
- Collective phenomena
- Solid state physics
- Spintronics
Honours and Awards
- 2011 European Research Council Advanced Grant
- 2009 Member of the Learned Society of the Czech Republic
- 2008 Praemium Academiae
- 2005 Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic Prize
- 2002 Otto Wichterle Prize of the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic
- 2000 NATO-NSF Advanced Fellowship
- 1996 Bolzano Foundation Prize of the European Physical Society
- 1996 Josef Hlavka Prize
