Prof. Dr. Ján MINÁR
NTC, University of West Bohemia, Pilsen, Czech Republic, EU
Areas of Research
- Electronic structure of solids, alloys and low-dimensional systems
- Electron Spectroscopy with main focus on the photoemission
- Ultrafast femtosecond light matter interaction and pump-probe photoemission
- Density functional theory and Green function based methods
- Electronic correlations
- Development of band structure methods
Scientific Career and education
since 2022: Deputy Director R&D, NTC, University of West Bohemia, Pilsen, Czech Republic
since 2020: Full professor at University of West Bohemia, Pilsen, Czech Republic
2019: Honorary Fellow of Munich University of Applied Sciences
since 2017: Head of Advanced Materials Department, NTC, University of West Bohemia, Pilsen, Czech Republic
2018: Habilitation in Applied Physics, UWB, Pilsen, Czech Republic
2012-2017: Lecturer at Ludwig-Maximilians-University, München
2014,2015,2016: Invited guest professor for theoretical solid state chemistry at University CY Cergy Paris,France
2012: Habilitation in Physical Chemistry, LMU, München
2003-2008: Post-doc at LMU München
2002-2003: Post-doc at Forschungszentrum Jülich
2003: PhD in Physical Chemistry, Ludwig-Maximilians-University, München, Germany
1993-1998: Study of Physical Chemistry, Technical University of Bratislava, Slovakia
Fellowships, awards and services to the community
2024-2026: Mercartor fellow of DFG, Germany
since 2023: University of Toyama Liaison Professor
2019: Honorary Fellow of Munich University of Applied Sciences
2024: Member of advisory board: Journal of Nanoscope
since 2015: Extraordinary member of Center for NanoScience CeNS, LMU München
2014, 2015,2016: Invited guest professor for theoretical solid state chemistry at University CY Cergy Paris, France
since 2014: Member of managment comitee and workgroup leader (Correlations) European cooperation in science and technology MP1306: EuSPEC
2013: Invited guest scientist ALS, Berkeley, USA
2012: Invited guest scientist Paul Scherrer Institute, Villigen, Switzerland
2011: Römer Prize, in the category habitation, Ludwig-Maximilians-University, München, Germany
2007: Invited guest scientist Prof. M. Katsnelson, University of Nijmegen, Netherlands
1993: 2-nd place at Czechoslovak Chemistry Olympiad
from 2008 Regular referee for many international journals
among others: Nature, Nature Com., Phys. Rev. Lett., J. Phys Chem.
from 2008 Referee of national and international funding agencies:
ERC, MSCA, DFG, Swiss SFN, Austrian FWF, USA DOE and NSF