!!Katalin Kamarás - Curriculum Vitae
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__Education and promotion:__
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*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
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__Employment:__
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*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
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__Professional travel:__
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*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
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__Research activity:__
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*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