| Professor of Physics |
Telephone: |
+1-517-355-9702 |
| Physics and Astronomy Department |
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+1-517-884-5637 |
| 4231 Biomedical & Physical Sci. Bldg. |
FAX: |
+1-517-353-4500 |
| Michigan State University |
E-mail: |
tomanek [at] pa.msu.edu |
| East Lansing, MI 48824, USA |
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Personal Data
| Date of Birth: |
July 10, 1954 |
| Birth Place: |
Prague (Czech Republic) |
| Gender: |
male |
| Citizenship: |
Switzerland, USA |
| Languages: |
Mundart (Swiss German), German, English, French, Latin,
Czech, Russian |
Education
| 1983 |
Ph.D. (Dr. rer. nat.) |
Theoretical Physics, Freie Universität Berlin, Germany |
| 1979 |
M.S. (Diploma) |
Theoretical Physics, University of Basel, Switzerland |
Employment and Professional Experience
| 1987–present |
Professor of Physics, Departments of Physics and Astronomy,
Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI |
| 1985-1987 |
Assistant Professor of Physics on leave, Freie Universität Berlin, and
Post-Doctoral Fellow, University of California, Berkeley, CA |
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1985 |
Post-Doctoral Fellow, AT&T Bell Labs. |
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1979–1985 |
Research Assistant at the Freie Universität Berlin |
Research Interests
Development and application of numerical techniques for structural,
electronic, transport and optical properties of surfaces, low-dimensional
systems and nanostructures. Computer simulations of self-assembly processes
and physical properties of fullerenes, nanotubes, nanowires, polymers,
layered systems, ferrofluids, metallic and magnetic clusters.
Honors
Visiting Positions
| 1983 |
Solid State Theory Group at the Centro Atomico Bariloche, Argentina |
| 1985 |
AT&T Bell Labs, Murray Hill, New Jersey |
| 1994 |
Laboratoire Aime Cotton of the CNRS, Universite Paris-Sud, Orsay, France |
| 1994 |
Department of Physics, National University of Singapore |
| 1994 |
Rice Quantum Institute, Rice University, Houston, USA |
| 1995 |
Universita di Roma "La Sapienza", Rome, Italy |
| 1995 |
Fritz–Haber Institut der Max–Planck Gesellschaft, Berlin, Germany |
| 1995 |
Physics Institute of Chalmers University, Gothenburg, Sweden |
| 1999 |
Physics Institute of the University of Coimbra, Portugal |
| 2000 |
Department of Physics, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Tokyo, Japan
(Invited Interdisciplinary Foreign Professor) |
| 2001-2002 |
School of Physics, Seoul National University, Seoul, Korea
(Distinguished Visiting Professor of Physics) |
| 2002 |
Visiting Professor, NEC Tsukuba Fundamental Research Labs. |
| 2005 |
Vielberth Visiting Professor, University of Regensburg, Germany |
| 2005 |
VTT Professor of Physics, Helsinki University of Technology, Finland |
| 2006-2007 |
Humboldt Professor of Physics, University of Regensburg, Germany |
| 2009 |
International Scholar, Kyung Hee University, Korea |
| 2010 |
Senior research fellow, CECAM, EPFL, Switzerland |
| 2015 |
Lee Hsun Research Fellow, Institute of Metal Research (IMR)
of the Chinese Academy of Sciences in Shenyang, P. R. China |
| 2015 |
Visiting Professor, Fudan University, Shanghai, P. R. China |
| 2017 |
Distinguished Visiting Professor, Shinshu University, Nagano,
Japan |
| 2018 |
Distinguished Visiting Professor, Shinshu University, Nagano,
Japan |
| 2023 |
Distinguished Visiting Professor, University of Johannesburg,
Johannesburg, South Africa |
Professional Activities
Author or co-author
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Over 290 scholarly publications in Theoretical Condensed Matter Physics,
with over 40,000
citations.
h-index 84.
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Editor
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European Physical Journal B
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Editor
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2D Materials: Focus on Phosphorene and related 2D Materials
for Electronics and Optics
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Member
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Editorial Advisory Board of the Materials Science forum
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Member
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Editorial Advisory Board of
Materials Express
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Executive Committee
member
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Fullerenes Group of the Electrochemical Society
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Member
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American Physical Society.
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Organizer and
initiator
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International Cluster Workshops (ICW'91, ICW'92, ICW'93),
International Conferences on the Science and Application of Nanotubes
(NT'99, NT'01, NT'02, NT'04, NT'05, NT'06, NT'07, NT'08, NT'09, NT'13, NT'14, NT'15),
Quantum Transport conferences (QTSM'02/QFS'02), 2016 Gordon Research Conference on
"Two Dimensional Electronics Beyond Graphene".
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Coordinator
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The Nanotube Site at
https://www.pa.msu.edu/cmp/csc/nanotube.html.
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Inventor
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Holds four patents related to nanotechnology.
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List of Publications (over 290 publications;
h-index 87)
See complete list of publications at
publications.html
List of Invited and Contributed Presentations
See complete list of presentations at
presentations.html
Patents and Patent Applications
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"Procedure and Container for a Planned Delivery of an
Active Substance". German Patent Application of
Peter Borrmann, David Tománek,
Philippe Jund, and Seong Gon Kim.
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"Micro-Fastening System and Method of
Manufacture". U.S. Patent 7,181,811 of David Tománek,
Richard J. Enbody, and Young-Kyun Kwon, issued February 27, 2007.
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"Nanocapsules containing charged particles, their
uses and methods of forming the same". U.S. Patent
6,473,351 of D. Tománek, Richard J. Enbody,
Young-Kyun Kwon, Mark Brehob, issued October 29, 2002.
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"Assembly of Vertically Aligned Nanotube Arrays Containing
Particles and Application Thereof". U.S. Patent
20160126482 of David Tomanek and Wei Han, processed by Huawei Company,
issued May 5, 2016.
Link to a
Narrative Curriculum Vitae
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