Position
2013 - now
Senior Research Scientist @ RIKEN, Japan
2017 - now
visiting ass. Prof.
@ University of Tokyo
Department of Applied Physics, School of Engineering
2012 - 2013
SCIEX fellow @ University of Basel, Switzerland
2011, 2013
postdoc @ Institute of Physics,
2007 - 2009
Slovak Academy of Sciences, Bratislava, Slovakia
2009 - 2011
postdoc @ University of Arizona, Tucson, USA
2005 - 2007
PhD student @ University of Regensburg, Germany
2003 - 2005 PhD student @ Karl Franc University Graz, Austria
sept - dec 2002 Exchange student @ University of Helsinki, Finland
Education
2007 PhD in theoretical physics
defense on 23 March at the University of Regensburg, Germany
committee: C. Strunk (chair), M. Grifoni, J. Fabian, A. Schaefer
2003 Diploma in mathematical physics
Comenius University, Bratislava, Slovakia
1998 Diploma in Corporation Management
University of Economics, Bratislava, Slovakia
1994 Matura
Gymnazium, Partizanske, Slovakia
Teaching
2018 Majorana fermion - what it is and what it is not
lecture series @ University of Tokyo
2017 Quantum information hardware with semiconductors
lecture series @ University of Tokyo
2008 Spin qubits in quantum dots
lecture series @ autumn school, Budmerice
Assistence in teaching (recitation classes)
2008 Mesoscopic transport (RCQI Bratislava)
2007 Electrodynamics (University of Regensburg)
2006 Mesoscopic physics (University of Regensburg)
2006 Monte Carlo methods in physics (University of Regensburg)
Mentoring
PhD student Fabio Baruffa, University of Regensburg
2007 - 2010 theses defended in summer 2010
bachelor student Jorge L. C. Diaz, Komenius University Bratislava
2008 - 2009 bachelors work defended
Publications summary: 63 publications, 2600+ citations, H factor 24 (according to WOS)
4 x Nature family
18 x Physical Review Letters / PRX / PRR
32 x Physical Review B
9 x other
Awards/stipends
2016-2018 Kakenhi C grant (16K05411)
CEMS Award 2016
Awarded by the Center of Emergent Matter Science, RIKEN
Selected among the three most representative projects
conducted at University of Basel during the
SCIEX program (2009-2015)
The best research result of Institute of Physics in
2012 in category "Basic research"
SCIEX Research fellow stipend 2011-2012
The 2nd best research result of Institute of Physics in
2011 in category "International research"
DAAD research visit stipend 2009
(German ministry of education)
1.-2. place in Scientific works of young physicists 2008
(awarded by Slovak Physical Society)
four year Schwarz stipend for a starting postdoc
(awarded by Slovak Academy of Sciences for the years 2007-2011)