Ferenc Kun
professor, Department of Theoretical Physics, University of Debrecen

Curriculum Vitae

Personal Data

• Place and Date of birth: Fehérgyarmat (Hungary), 13.11.1966
• Education: diploma in physics
• Scientific degree: DSc
• Family status: married

Studies

• 1991: Diploma in physics (Kossuth Lajos University)
• 1998: PhD in Physics (Kossuth Lajos University)
• 2006: Habilitation (University of Debrecen)
• 2010: Doctor of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, DSc (HAS)

Positions held

• Assistant professor at the Department of Theoretical Physics, University of Debrecen, 1999-2007.
• Associate professor at the Department of Theoretical Physics, University of Debrecen, 2007-2014.
• Professor at the Department of Theoretical Physics, University of Debrecen, 2014. September 1-.

Fellowships

• János Bólyai postdoctoral fellowship 2008-2011 (three years), closed with excellent qualification
• Fellowship of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation (3 months), Institute for Computer Applications, University of Stuttgart, Germany, 2007
• György Békésy postdoctoral fellowship, 2002-2005 (three years)
• Zoltán Magyary postdoctoral fellowship
• János Bólyai postdoctoral fellowship 1999-2001 (three years), closed with excellent qualification
• Roman Herzog postdoctoral fellowship of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation at the Institute for Computer Applications, University of Stuttgart, Germany, 1998-1999
• Fellowship at the Laboratoire de Physique et Mechanique des Millieux Heterogenes (ESPCI), Paris, France, 1995-1996 (two years)
• Fellowship at the Department of Theoretical Physics, University of Frankfurt, Germany (7 months during 1992-1994)
• Ph.D. fellowship (TMB) of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences 1992-1994 (three years)
• Fellowship of the Republic 1990-1991 (two years)

Honors

• Outstanding referee of the American Physics Society, 2015.
• Associate Editor of the journal Frontiers in Interdisciplinary Physics, 2013-.
• Prize of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, 2013.
• Physics Prize of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, 2010.
• Janossy Lajos Prize of the Hungarian Physical Society, 2008.
• Golden Medal of the “Scientific publication of the year”, University of Debrecen, 2007.
• Prize of Young Researchers of the Universitas Foundation, 1993, 1994 (two times)
• Medal of the Faculty of Natural Sciences, University of Debrecen, 1991.
• 2nd prize in theoretical physics at the Conference of Student’s Research and the special price of the Central Research Institute for Physics, 1991.

Memberships

• A Bólyai János posztdoktori ösztöndíj szakértői kollégiuma (fizika, csillagászat) tagja, 2013 -
• OTKA Természettudományi Kollégium tagja, 2013-
• Member of the Public Body of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences (HAS), 1998-
• From 2005 for 4 years member of the Physics Jury of OTKA
• Since 2006 member of the Statistical Physics Committee of HAS
• Since 2008 secretary of the Statistical Physics Committee of HAS

Professionals

• 97 papers published in refereed journals, 5 book chapter and 18 conference proceedings papers. Three papers selected by Physical Review Focus. Two papers were presented on the cover page of Physical Review Letters
• Cumulative impact: 230, Number of independent citations: ~1700.
• Invitation for conference section chairman and invited speaker: AGU 2013, Avalanches and intermittency in out-of-equilibrium systems 2014, 11th International Conference on Fracture, 2005; 11th International Conference on Fracture, Torino 2005, General Conference of the European Physical Society (EPS12) 2002; AutoSim2005 conference, Toulouse, France 2005, Workshop on Eartquake Dynamics 2005, Calcutta, India; MMM2006 Freiburg, Germany, CFRAC2007 Nantes, France.
• Invited researcher: Institute for Computer Applications, University of Stuttgart, 1 month a year since 2000; Condensed Matter Group of ICTP, Trieste, 1 month in 2001, 2002, 2003; Department of Physics, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, 1 month in 2000; Department of Applied Physics, University of Tokyo, 2 month in 2004; 1month in 2005.
• Principal investigator of 8 research projects during the last 7 years.
• Referee of several OTKA and TéT proposals
• Referee of several PhD thesis in Hungary and abroad
• Principal investigator of several OTKA, NKFP, FKFP, and TéT projects
• Referee of professional journals (Physical Review Letters, Physical Review E, Eurphysics Letters, European Physical Journal B, International Journal of Fracture, Journal of Statistical Mechanics: Theory and Experiment... ) in the field of the statistical physics of fracture.