Research Interests

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

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

• Award for Outstanding Young Scientist of the Central Research Institute for Physics, 1985
• Medal of Higher Education, 1982