Gergely Zimanyi

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Research Professor
Office: 405 Physics Building
Phone: +1 (530) 400-3936
Fax: +1 (530) 752-4717
Email: gtzimanyi@ucdavis.edu

Personal Professional Website: http://zimanyi.ucdavis.edu/

Research Interests:

Theoretical condensed matter physics; collective phenomena, strongly interacting systems, the physics of disorder, the vortex matter, magnetic recording.

Research Areas

Career History

  • Ph.D., Eotvos Lorand University, 1985
  • IBM Postdoctoral Fellow, SUNY, Stony Brook, 1986-1987
  • Postdoctoral Fellow, SUNY, Stony Brook, 1987-1988
  • Postdoctoral Fellow, Rutgers University, 1988-1989
  • Assistant Professor, University of California, Davis, 1989-1993
  • Associate Professor, University of California, Davis, 1993-1997
  • Professor, University of California, Davis, 1997-Present

Honors

  • Fellow of the American Physical Society, 2012
  • UC Davis Distinguished Teaching Award: Undergraduate, 2011
  • Award for Outstanding Young Scientist of the Central Research Institute for Physics, 1985
  • Medal of Higher Education, 1982