Katalin Kamarás - Curriculum Vitae#
Education and promotion:
- 1976 - Diploma in Chemistry, Loránd Eötvös University, Budapest
- 1979 - Ph.D. in Physical Chemistry, Loránd Eötvös University, Budapest. Title of thesis: "Physicochemical investigations on electrically conducting donor-acceptor salts". Adviser: Dr. George Grüner
- 1991 - Candidate of Science in Physics, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest. Title of thesis: "Optical spectroscopy of mixed-valent solids"
- 1996 - Doctor of Science in Physics, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest. Title of thesis: "Electron and phonon contributions in the infrared spectra of novel superconductors"
- 2000 - Habilitation in Physics, Budapest University of Technology and Economics, Budapest
- 2010 - Corresponding Member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences
Employment:
- 1976-79: Research Assistant, Central Research Institute for Physics, Budapest
- 1979-91: Research Scientist, Central Research Institute for Physics, Budapest
- 1992- : Senior Research Scientist (tenured), Research Institute for Solid State Physics, Budapest
- 1996-2010 : Senior Research Advisor, Research Institute for Solid State Physics, Budapest
- 2010- : Research Professor, Research Institute for Solid State Physics, Budapest
Professional travel:
- 1981-82: Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Chemistry, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD
- 1987-89: Senior Research Associate, Department of Physics, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL
- 1992-93: Alexander-von-Humboldt Foundation Fellow, Max-Planck-Institut fur Festkörperforschung, Stuttgart, Germany
- 1993-94: Visiting Scientist, Solid State Physics Laboratory, University of Groningen, Groningen, The Netherlands
- 1994-95: Visiting Adjunct Professor, Department of Physics, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA
- 1996-97: Visiting Research Scientist, Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland
- 2003: Visiting Research Scientist, Center for Nanoscale Science and Engineering, University of California, Riverside, CA
- 2004: Returning Alexander-von-Humboldt Foundation Fellow, 1. Physikalisches Institut, Universität Stuttgart, Stuttgart, Germany
Research activity:
- 1976-82: synthesis and physical chemistry of organic conductors
- 1983-86: synthesis and investigation by optical spectroscopy of charge-density-wave materials
- 1987- : infrared and optical spectroscopy of high temperature superconductors
- 1992- : far-infrared spectroscopic ellipsometry, optical spectroscopy of fullerenes
- 1994-95: infrared photoluminescence of rare earth ions in SiC
- 1996-97: optical properties of organic light-emitting diodes
- 1997-: infrared, optical and Raman spectra of carbon nanotubes
- 2005-: infrared spectra of self-assembled supramolecular structures and surfaces
