Curriculum Vitae
(29/06/2007)
NAME: 		Dr. Ferenc SIMON (Phd)
Present:	Associate professor at the TU Budapest, Hungary (since 07/2007)
Born:		Budapest, 8th June, 1974
Age:		31 yrs.
Nationality:	Hungarian
Civil status:	Married (to Dr. Krisztina Nagy)
Studies:	Technical University of Budapest, physicist-engineer 1992-1997
		The University of Manchester 1995-1996	
		1997 June MSc in physics
		2002 March PhD in Physics entitled: "Magnetic resonance studies of strongly correlated systems"

Postdoctoral positions:
2002 march-2003 december, Research Associate, Budapest University of Technology and Economics-Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Hungary
		2003 januar-2003 october, Postdoctoral research fellow at University of Vienna, Austria
2003 november- Postdoctoral fellow with Marie Curie Individual Research Fellowship at the University of Vienna, Austria


Knowledge of languages:
 	Hungarian, mother tongue
English, fluent (Cambridge Proficiency)
French, fluent (Hungarian State exam) 
German, fluent
Spanish, conversational (Hungarian State exam)

Awards:
	Scholarship of the President of the Republic 1994, 1995, 1996.
	Award from the 'For the Promotion of Science in Hungary Committee', 1995.
	National competition for physics students, 1st 1995. 
	Award of youth scientist, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, 2002.
	Scholarship of the Soros private foundation, 2000-2001.
	Best publication during PhD in Hungary, 2002.

Teaching Experience:
Solid State Physics Tutorial for 3rd year students 1997-1998, 1998-1999, 2001-2002.
Physics lectures for engineer-economy students

Research supervision:
2000-2002, 1 PhD Student at the Budapest University of Technology and Economics, Hungary
2002 during short visits, 1 PhD student at the Ecole Polytechnique federal de Lausanne, Switzerland
2003-2005: 1 PhD, 1 Diploma student at the University of Vienna, Austria
2005-: 1 PhD, TU Budapest
2006-: 1 Diploma student, TU Budapest

Scientific interest:
Strongly correlated systems, superconductors, doped fulllerides , nanostructured materials, molecular nanomagnets, quantum computing, quantum cryptography..

Referee at:	
					European Physical Journal B
					Chemical Physics Letters 
					Physica Status Solidi
					Carbon
					Physical Review B
					Physical Review Letters
					Journal of Nanoscience and Nanotechnology
					Journal of Magnetic Resonance
					Nanotechnology

Bibliographic Record

Published papers:				64
Number of independent citations: 		180
Accummulated Impact factors: 			116.04
Book chapters					2
Peer Reviewed Journal Papers 			44
	Of which First authored Journal Papers	19
	Of which Physical Review Letters	9
Peer Reviewed Conference proceedings		18
Conference lectures				17
	Of which invited			6

Over 20 invited lectures