Ing. Alexander B. Shick, CSc., DSc (in passport: Aleksandr Šik)
Year of birth	1963
Employer	Institute of Physics of the Czech Academy of Sciences
E-mail	shick@fzu.cz
Phone	+420266052912
Researcher ID	C-1420-2013

PROFESSIONAL INTERESTS / RESEARCH EXPERTISE

Quantum Theory of Materials: electronic, magnetic, superconducting, and structural properties of complex materials

EDUCATION

1987 – MSc in Physics, Department of Physics and Technology, Urals Polytechnical Institute, Sverdlovsk, USSR

1993 – CSc in Physics and Mathematics, Institute of Solid State

Chemistry, Russian Academy of Sciences, Ekaterinburg, Russia,

2015 – DSc in Physics and Mathematics (Research Professor),

Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic

PROFESIONAL EXPERIENCE (including INTERNATIONAL EXPERIENCE)

2022 – 2023 Visiting senior scientist at Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel

2011 – 2013 Visiting senior scientist at Institute for Transuaranium Elements, Joint Research Center, European Comission, Karlsruhe, Germany

2001 – to date Scientist, from 2008 senior scientist, FZU- Institute of Physics ASCR, Prague, CZ

1998 – 2001 Postdoctoral research associate, University of California - Davis, Davis, USA

1996 – 1998 Postdoctoral research associate, Northwestern University, Evanston, USA

1995 – 1996 Posdoctoral fellow, FZ-Juelich, Juelich, Germany

1994 – 1995 Junior researcher, FZU- Institute of Physics ASCR, Prague, CZ

1987 – 1994 Research associate, Institute of Solid State Chemistry, Russian Academy of Sciences, Ekaterinburg, Russian Federation

PUBLICATIONS

Author or co-author of 136 publications with 4024 (WOS) citations as of 01/2024

H-index 33/37 (WoS / GoogleScholar)

Selected 5 most important papers (since 2017):

A. B. Shick, U.D. Wdowik, I. Halevy, D. Legut, Spin and orbital magnetic moments of UTe2 induced by external magnetic field, , Scientific Reports 14, 25337 (2024).

A. B. Shick, S.-I. Fujimori, W. E. Pickett, UTe2: a nearly insulating half-filled 5f³ metal, Phys. Rev. B 103, 125136 (2021).

A. B. Shick and W. E. Pickett,, Spin-orbit coupling induced degeneracy in the anisotropic unconventional superconductor UTe2, Phys. Rev. B 100, 134502 (2019).

D. Krieger et al., Magnetic anisotropy in antiferromagnetic hexagonal MnTe, Phys. Rev. B 96, 214418 (2017).

A. B. Shick, D. L. Shapiro, J. Kolorens, A. I. Lichtenstein, Magnetic character of Ho adatom on Platinum surface, Scientific Reports 7, 2751 (2017).

APPLICATION RESULTS

2011 US patent No. 7939870 – Magnetoresistive devise

RESEARCH GRANTS

2018-2021 Principal investigator GAČR18-06240S

Spin and Orbital Magnetism of the rare-earth adatoms

2015-2017 Principal investigator GAČR15-07172S

Charge and spin doping of graphene by substitutional impurities: theory and experiment

INVITED TALKS AT INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCES

1. 2022 8^th International workshop on the Dual Nature of f-electrons,

Max-Plank-Institute for Chemical Physics of Solids, Dresden, July 2022.

2. 2021 Symposium “Physics and Chemistry of Actinides seen by X-rays”, European Synchrotron Radiation Facility, Grenoble, Grenoble, February 2021 (online)

3. 2019 The SPICE international workshop “Novel Electronic and Magnetic Phases in Correlated Spin-Orbit Coupled Oxides”, Johannes Gutenberg Universitet, Mainz, November 2019, Germany

4. 2018 Cecam international workshop “Strongly Correlated Materials”, Tel Aviv University, April 2018, Israel

5. 2018 21^st International Conference on Solid Compounds of Transition Elements, Vienna, March 2018, Austria

AWARDS and MEMBERSHIPS

2011 Research fellowship of the European Commission,

Institute for Transuranium elements (ITU), Karlsruhe, Germany

2002 Otto Wichterle Award, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic

1996 FZ-Juelich Postdoctoral fellowship, FZ – Juelich, Germany

TEACHING ACTIVITIES AND SUPERVISION OF STUDENTS

2020 - Supervisor of the PhD thesis, MFFUK, Prague: E. Belsch

2018 - 2023 Supervisor of the PhD thesis, MFFUK, Prague: M. Tchaplianka

2013 - 2018 Supervisor of the PhD thesis, MFFUK, Prague: A. Kozub