CURRICULUM VITAE

• Full name: Tamás Sándor Biró

Biographical data

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

Scientific Qualification

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

Employment

• Head of the Heavy Ion Group, RMKI Budapest, Hungary (2006-)
• 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

• 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.

Publications

Awards

• Hungarian Academy Award, 1997
• Széchenyi Professorship, 2000 - 2003
• Charles Simonyi Research Scholarship, 2007

Memberships

• Chairman of Physics Section Jury of National Scientific Research Fund, Hungary (OTKA) (2008 - 2010)
• Member of Physics Section Jury of National Scientific Research Fund, Hungary (OTKA) (1999 - 2002)
• Member of the Science Board of OTKA (2002-2004)
• 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), Editor-in-Chief (2003 - 2006)
• Co-Editor of The European Physical Journal A: Hadrons and Nuclei (2006-)
• President of the Scientific Advisory Board at RMKI (2007 - )

Supporting Agencies

• National Scientific Research Fund (OTKA), Hungary.
• Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) - Hungarian Academy (MTA) (with University of Giessen, University of Frankfurt)
• Österreich - Ungarn Aktion Foundation (with TU-Wien)
• US-Hungarian Joint Fund (with Duke University)