Prof. RNDr. Václav Janiš, DrSc.

Born: March 17, 1954, in Čeladná, Czechoslovakia

Marital status: married, wife Dana, son Ondřej

Citizenship: Czech Republic

Domicile: Mátová 179, CZ-104 00 Praha-Křeslice, Czech Republic

Affiliation: Institute of Physics, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, Na Slovance 2,

CZ-182 21 Prague

Present position: Senior Scientist / Principal Researcher

Tel/Fax/E-mail: +420-26605 2153/+420-286 588 605/janis@fzu.cz

Research and Teaching Experience / Affiliation

2008 --- Head of Condensed Matter Division/Deputy director

2000 --- Head of Condensed Matter Theory Department

1994 --- Senior Scientist

Research orientation: Theory of strongly correlated electrons, statistical mechanics of quantum many-body systems,

thermodynamic and dynamical effects due to electron-electron interactions and disorder, itinerant magnetism,

x-ray problem, quantum phase transitions, non-Fermi-liquid behavior, Hubbard and Kondo systems,

development of diagrammatic methods for strongly correlated systems, theory of Anderson localization,

mean-filed theory of spin glasses

1994 --- Associate Lecturer at the Faculty of Mathematics and Physics, Charles University, Prague

Courses: Statistical Mechanics, Quantum Many-Body Physics, Path Integral Method, Renormalized Theory of Phase Transitions

1990 - 1994 Research Associate at the Technical University Aachen (RWTH), FRG

Research project: Mean-field theory for strongly correlated systems (Prof. D.Vollhardt)

1983 -- 1990 Research Associate at the Institute of Physics of the Czech. Acad. Sci., Prague

Research area: Application of field--theoretical and functional-integral methods in statistical mechanics

and condensed-matter physics

Educational Background and Degrees

2003 Prof. (Full Professor of Theoretical Physics), Charles University

2001 Doc. (Associate Professor of Theoretical Physics), Charles University

1996 DrSc (DSc) Degree, Charles University, Prague

1984 CSc (PhD) Degree, Charles University, Prague,

1982 RNDr. (MSc.) Charles University

1979 -- 1982 Graduate studies at the Mathematical Institute of the Czech. Acad. Sci., Prague

Specialization: Mathematical Methods in Physics

1973 -- 1978 Study of theoretical physics at Charles University, Prague

Scientific output

66 original publications in refereed international research journals

12 contributions to published international conference proceedings

Long-term visits

11/2002 University of California, Santa Barbara, USA

11/1999 University of Augsburg, FRG (D. Vollhardt)

05/1999 - 08/1999 Visiting professor, University of Bremen, FRG (G. Czycholl)

10/1996 - 12/1996 Humboldt Fellow, University of Augsburg, FRG (D. Vollhardt)

03/1996 - 06/1996 Visiting scientist, ISSP, University of Tokyo, Japan (K. Ueda)

11/1991 Visiting scienist, Florida University, Gainesville, USA (D. Vollhardt)

05/1990 - 10/1990 Humboldt Fellow, University of Dortmund, FRG (H. Keiter)

01/1990 - 04/1990 Research Associate, RWTH Aachen, FRG (G. Czycholl)