Krisztián Palotás
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Name: Krisztián Palotás
Born: 1977

Academic degrees:
2007 MSc Finance, University of Liverpool, UK
2004 Dr. Techn. (PhD), Vienna University of Technology, Austria
2001 MSc Engineering Physics, Budapest University of Technology and Economics, Hungary

Academic positions:
2021- Senior Researcher, Department of Theoretical Solid State Physics, Institute for Solid State Physics and Optics, Wigner Research Center for Physics, Budapest, Hungary
2017- Senior Research Fellow (part-time), HUN-REN(ELKH,MTA)-SZTE Reaction Kinetics and Surface Chemistry Research Group, University of Szeged, Hungary
2018-2022 Senior Research Fellow (part-time), Department of Theoretical Physics, Budapest University of Technology and Economics, Hungary
2018-2020 Senior Research Fellow, Department of Theoretical Solid State Physics, Institute for Solid State Physics and Optics, Wigner Research Center for Physics, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest, Hungary
2016-2018 SASPRO-Marie Curie Research Fellow, Department of Complex Physical Systems, Institute of Physics, Slovak Academy of Sciences, Bratislava, Slovakia
2017 Hungarian State Eötvös Fellow, Institute of Applied Physics, Vienna University of Technology, Austria
2016 Hungarian State Eötvös Fellow, Institute of Physics, CNRS UMR 6251 - University of Rennes 1, France
2015 Hungarian State Eötvös Fellow, CNR-SPIN, L'Aquila/Chieti, Italy
2014-2015 Senior Research Fellow, Department of Theoretical Physics, Budapest University of Technology and Economics, Hungary
2011-2014 Research Fellow, Department of Theoretical Physics, Budapest University of Technology and Economics, Hungary
2009-2011 Zoltán Magyary Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Theoretical Physics, Budapest University of Technology and Economics, Hungary
2008-2009 Marie Curie Postdoctoral Fellow, Institute of Electronic Structure and Laser, Foundation for Research and Technology Hellas, Heraklion, Greece
2004-2007 Senior Research Assistant, Surface Science Research Centre, University of Liverpool, UK
2001-2004 Research Assistant, Center for Computational Materials Science, Vienna University of Technology, Austria

Roles in the scientific community:
Invited journal reviewer for Nature Nanotechnology, Nature Communications, Physical Review Letters, Physical Review B, Journal of Magnetism and Magnetic Materials, Journal of Physics: Condensed Matter, Computational Materials Science, Journal of Molecular Structure, Thin Solid Films, EPL, Physica Status Solidi B
Invited project reviewer for EU EIC PATHFINDER
2021- Advisory Editorial Board Member at Computational Condensed Matter (Elsevier). Elsevier link to the Editorial Board of the journal
2020-2021 Guest Editor of Special Issue "Atomic-Scale Properties of Magnetic Surfaces, Interfaces, and Nanostructures" in Nanomaterials (MDPI, IF=5.076). MDPI link to the Special Issue
2018- Member of the Hungarian Physical Society
2018-2023 Member of the Management Committee of the EU COST project CA17123: MAGNETOFON: Ultrafast opto-magneto-electronics for non-dissipative information technology
2014-2018 Member of the Management Committee of the EU COST project MP1306: EUSpec: Modern Tools for Spectroscopy on Advanced Materials
2012- Member of the Professional Body of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences: 2012- Member of the Section Solid State Physics, 2018- Member of the Section Surface Chemistry and Nanostructures. Link to Hungarian website

Awards, Research Grants:
2023 The Most Outstanding Publication of the Budapest University of Technology and Economics 2018-2022 Prize (co-author of article published in Science Advances 2018), Pro Progressio Foundation, Hungary
2023- ÚNKP-BME Bolyai+ Research Fellowship within the New National Excellence Program of the Ministry for Culture and Innovation and the National Research, Development, and Innovation Office of Hungary
Principal Investigator (PI) of project "Magnetic properties of surface atomic clusters"
2021- János Bolyai Research Scholarship of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences
PI of project "Scanning tunneling microscopy and spectroscopy calculations of novel material surfaces"
2017- Young Resercher Grant of the National Research, Development, and Innovation Office of Hungary
PI of project "Theoretical studies of novel material surfaces"
2022-2023 ÚNKP-BME Bolyai+ Research Fellowship within the New National Excellence Program of the Ministry for Culture and Innovation and the National Research, Development, and Innovation Office of Hungary
PI of project "Theoretical studies of surface atomic structures"
2021-2022 ÚNKP-BME Bolyai+ Research Fellowship within the New National Excellence Program of the Ministry for Innovation and Technology and the National Research, Development, and Innovation Office of Hungary
PI of project "Theoretical studies of magnetic surfaces and atomic structures"
2021 Publication Prize of the Institute for Solid State Physics and Optics, Wigner Research Center for Physics, Hungary
2021 Pál Gombás Prize of the Hungarian Physical Society for the exceptional achievements in the field of applied quantum theory
2019 The Most Important Publication of the Budapest University of Technology and Economics 2018 Prize (co-author of article published in Nature Communications), Pro Progressio Foundation, Hungary
2016-2018 SASPRO-Marie Curie Fellowship of the Slovak Academy of Sciences
PI of project "Development of scanning tunneling microscopy simulation tools for spin transport"
2017 Hungarian State Eötvös Fellowship of the Tempus Public Foundation
PI of project "Donor and acceptor centers in graphene imaged by scanning tunneling microscopy"
2016 Hungarian State Eötvös Fellowship of the Tempus Public Foundation
PI of project "Position dependent damping in spin dynamics from first principles"
2015 Hungarian State Eötvös Fellowship of the Hungarian Scholarship Board
PI of project "Spin transport simulations at the nanoscale"
2011-2014 János Bolyai Research Scholarship of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences
PI of project "Electron transport simulation in magnetic nanostructures"
2011-2014 Hungarian Scientific Research Fund (OTKA) Postdoctoral Fellowship
PI of project "Theoretical studies on magnetic nanostructures"
2009-2011 Zoltán Magyary Postdoctoral Fellowship, Hungary
PI of project "Theoretical study of electric transport properties of magnetic hybrid nanomaterials"
2007 MSc Finance Student of the Year, University of Liverpool
2006-2007 University of Liverpool Alumni Scholarship
2004 EU Descartes Research Prize finalist (member of the CSNM-team in Vienna)
2001 Joint scholarship of Budapest University of Technology and Economics & Vienna University of Technology

Scientific output:
ResearcherID: C-5338-2009
ORCID profile
Scopus profile
Google Scholar profile
Researchgate profile
MTMT Publications Database
52 invited talks at scientific events:
2024 March  Physics Colloquium at the Nicolaus Copernicus University, Toruń, Poland
2024 February  International Meeting: Vienna Ab-initio Simulation Package (VASP) and Applications, Évora, Portugal (ONLINE)
2024 January  Joint Colloquium of Physics and Chemistry at the Technical University of Ilmenau, Ilmenau, Germany
2023 September  2023 IEEE 13th International Conference Nanomaterials: Applications & Properties, Bratislava, Slovakia
2023 July  2 seminars at the School of Physics and Information Technology, Shaanxi Normal University, Xi'an, China
2023 May  Joint Meeting of the Surface Chemistry and Nanostructures, Catalysis, and Colloid Chemistry Committees of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest, Hungary
2022 January  Surface Science Discussions 2022, Poznań, Poland (ONLINE)
2020 November  Condensed Matter Physics Meeting, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest, Hungary (ONLINE)
2019 December  Korea + Europe Early/Mid-career Workshop, Seoul, Republic of Korea
2019 December  Seminar at the Center for Quantum Nanoscience, Ewha Womans University, Seoul, Republic of Korea
2019 December  1 seminar + 1 tutorial at the Asia Pacific Center for Theoretical Physics, Pohang, Republic of Korea
2019 May  Joint Workshop on the Preparation, Structure, Magnetic and Transport Properties of Advanced Materials and Nanostructures, Visegrád, Hungary
2019 March  Seminar of the Surface Chemistry and Nanostructures Committee of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Szeged, Hungary
2018 November  Seminar at the Surface Science Research Centre, University of Liverpool, Liverpool, UK
2018 November  Theoretical Chemistry Colloquium at the Center for Theoretical Chemistry, Ruhr-University Bochum, Bochum, Germany
2018 July  Seminar at the Institute of Functional Nano and Soft Materials (FUNSOM), Soochow University, Suzhou, China
2018 July  Seminar at the International Centre for Quantum and Molecular Structures (ICQMS), Shanghai University, Shanghai, China
2018 July  Lecture for New Graduate Students at the International Centre for Quantum and Molecular Structures (ICQMS), Shanghai University, Shanghai, China
2018 July  NANO KOREA Symposium 2018, Seoul, Republic of Korea
2018 July  Theory of Heterointerfaces and Surfaces (THIS) 2018 Workshop, Seoul, Republic of Korea
2018 February  Final Whole Action Meeting, EU COST Action MP1306, Lisbon, Portugal
2018 February  Seminar at the Department of Theoretical Physics, Budapest University of Technology and Economics, Budapest, Hungary
2017 November  Seminar at the Vienna University of Technology, Vienna, Austria
2017 June  IFIMAC-Seminar at the Department of Theoretical Condensed Matter Physics, Autonomous University, Madrid, Spain
2017 April  Seminar at the Department of Experimental Physics, Comenius University, Bratislava, Slovakia
2017 February  Work Group Meeting Spectroscopy, EU COST Action MP1306, Athens, Greece
2016 November  Seminar of the Surface Chemistry and Nanostructures Committee of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest, Hungary
2016 November  Theory of Heterointerfaces and Surfaces (THIS) 2016 Winter School, Seoul, Republic of Korea
2016 September  Seminar at the CEA Saclay, Saclay, France
2016 July  4th MSNano Conference on recent advances in the multiple scattering approach to spectroscopies, Rennes, France
2016 April  Seminar at the Institute of Physics, Marie Curie-Skłodowska University, Lublin, Poland
2015 November  Seminar at the Institute of Physics, University of Rennes 1, Rennes, France
2015 July  Seminar at the CNR-SPIN L'Aquila-Chieti, Chieti, Italy
2015 May  IAP-Seminar at the Vienna University of Technology, Vienna, Austria
2015 February  International High-resolution AFM/STM Imaging Workshop, Prague, Czech Republic
2014 November  Seminar at the Institute of Electronics, Microelectronics and Nanotechnology (IEMN), University of Lille 1, Lille, France
2014 November  Seminar at the Institute of Physics, University of Rennes 1, Rennes, France
2014 September  1st Whole Action Meeting, EU COST Action MP1306, Louvain la Neuve, Belgium
2014 May  Seminar at the Institute of Physics, Czech Academy of Sciences, Prague, Czech Republic
2014 March  Seminar at the Surface Science Research Centre, University of Liverpool, Liverpool, UK
2013 October  Seminar at the CNR-SPIN L'Aquila-Chieti, Chieti, Italy
2013 May  New Results in Condensed Matter Physics Workshop, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest, Hungary
2012 June  Seminar at the Christian Albrechts University, Kiel, Germany
2012 January  ViCoM-Seminar at the Vienna University of Technology, Vienna, Austria
2011 September  Seminar at the Surface Science Research Centre, University of Liverpool, Liverpool, UK
2010 September  Seminar at the Surface Science Research Centre, University of Liverpool, Liverpool, UK
2009 July  Seminar at the Research Institute for Technical Physics and Materials Science of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest, Hungary
2007 October  Seminar at the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest, Hungary
2007 October  Seminar at the Chemical Research Center of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest, Hungary
2005 October  Connex II: Computational Materials Science of Nanostructures Workshop, Vienna, Austria
79 contributed talks
18 contributed posters
81 co-authored conference contributions

Last modified: 22 Mar 2024