CURRICULUM VITAE

• Full name: Tamás Sándor Biró

Biographical data

• Birth Date/Place: March 22, 1956 in Budapest/Hungary
• Nationality: Hungarian

Publications

Scientific Qualification

• Dr.Sci.: Physics, March 1994, Hungarian Academy of Science (MTA)
• Dr.habil.: Theoretical Physics, February 1991, Justus Liebig Univ. Giessen, Germany
• Ph.D.(rer.nat.): Nuclear Physics, February 1982, Eotvos Roland Univ. Budapest, Hungary
• M.S.(diploma): Physics + Biophysics, May 1980, Eotvos Roland Univ. Budapest, Hungary

Employment

• Deputy Director for the Institute for Particle and Nuclear Physics, Wigner RCP, Budapest, Hungary (2013-)
• Head of the Heavy Ion Research Group, RMKI Budapest, Hungary (2006-2013)
• Széchenyi Professor, BME Budapest, Hungary (2000-2003)
• Associate Professor, MTA KFKI RMKI Budapest, Hungary (since 1994)
• Assistant Professor (C2), Giessen University, Germany (1993-94)
• Assistant Professor (C1), Giessen University, Germany (1987-93)
• Research Associate, Giessen University, Germany (1985-87)
• Research Associate, GSI Darmstadt, Germany (1983-85)
• Research Fellow, MTA KFKI Budapest, Hungary (1982-83)
• Stipendiate, MTA KFKI Budapest, Hungary (1980-82)

Visiting positions

• DFG Merkator Professor, Giessen University, Germany (acad. year 2004/2005)
• Duke University, Durham, NC, USA (3 months in 2003)
• CERN, Theory Division, Geneve, Switzerland (3 months in 2000)
• University of Bergen, Norway (3 months in 1996)
• Duke University, Durham, NC, USA (3 months in 1995)
• Duke University, Durham, NC, USA (2 months in 1990)
• Niels Bohr Institute, Copenhagen, Denmark (3 months in 1983)

Research Fields

• Intense fields and particles
• Non-extensive thermodynamics: additivity restoring condition for entropy formulas.
• Statistical models: multiplicative noise, generalized kinetics.
• Lattice: chaos, monopoles, non-extensive Monte Carlo.
• Quark -- gluon plasma: strangeness, magnetic mass.
• Confinement phenomenology: color ropes, GEP, EOS.
• Hadrochemistry: strangeness, kinetic and transport models.
• Multifragmentation: percolation models, scaling.
• Neural networks: spontaneous pattern formation.
• Lipid membranes: phase transitions.

Awards

• Hungarian Order of Merit, Officer's Cross, August 21. 2012
• Charles Simonyi Research Scholarship, 2007
• Merkator Professorship (DFG), 2004-2005
• Széchenyi Professorship, 2000 - 2003
• Hungarian Academy Award, 1997

  

Memberships and Editorships

• Ordinary Member of Academia Scientiarum et Artium Europaea / Class IV - Natural Sciences (2018 - )
• Member of Academia Europaea (2016 - )
• Secretary of the Professor's Batthyany Circle (2016-)
• Member of the Natural Science Committee of the Hungarian Academy of Science (2015-)
• Member of the Presidential Committee on Publication at the Hungarian Academy of Science (2015-)
• Editor-in-Chief at the European Physics Journal A (Hadrons and Nuclei) (2013-2018)
• External Member of the Science PhD Advisory Board for the Eotvos University (2013- )
• Co-Editor of the European Physics Journal A: Hadrons and Nuclei (2006-2013, 2018-)
• Chairman of Physics Section Jury of National Scientific Research Fund, Hungary (OTKA) (2008 - 2010)
• President of the Scientific Advisory Board at RMKI (2007 - 2012)
• Editor-in-Chief of Acta Physica Hungarica: A (Heavy Ion Physics), B(Quantum Electronics) (2003 - 2006)
• Member of the Science Board of OTKA (2002-2004)
• Member of Physics Section Jury of National Scientific Research Fund, Hungary (OTKA) (1999 - 2002)
• Secretary of Nuclear Physics Committe of Hungarian Academy of Science (MTA) (1999 - 2005)
• Editor of Acta Physica Hungarica New Series: Heavy Ion Physics (1999 - 2002)
• Member of Nuclear Physics Committee of Hungarian Academy of Science (1996- )
• Member of the Eotvos Roland Physics Society, ELFT (1996- )
• Member of the Professor's Batthyany Circle (1996- )

International Cooperation Projects

• Hungarian - Ukrainian bilateral academy cooperation (Kiev; L. Jenkovszky)
• Chinese - Hungarian bilateral governmental cooperation (Wuhan; X.N. Wang)
• South-African - Hungarian bilateral governmental cooperation (Cape Town; J. Cleymans, Johannesburg; A. Muronga)
• Babes-Bolyai University - Wigner Research Centre (UBB Cluj; Z. Néda)
• Helmholtz International Centre for FAIR (Frankfurt; C. Greiner, M. Bleicher)
• National Scientific Research Fund (OTKA; several projects), Hungary
• Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) - Hungarian Academy (MTA) (with University of Giessen; U. Mosel, University of Frankfurt; C. Greiner)
• Österreich - Ungarn Aktion Foundation (TU-Wien; H. Markum)
• US-Hungarian Joint Fund (Duke University; B. Muller)