Michel Calame joins the EPJ Scientific Advisory Committee (SAC)

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Published on 23 June 2020

The Scientific Advisory Committee of EPJ is delighted to welcome Professor Michel Calame as the new representative for the Swiss Physical Society.

Michel Calame is head of the Transport at Nanoscale Interfaces Laboratory at the Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology (Empa) and Professor of Nanoscience at the University of Basel in Switzerland.

His expertise is in nano- and molecular scale electronics and in the quantum transport properties of heterogeneous nano-scale devices. He served as a board member of the Maths, Astronomy and Physics Platform at the Swiss Academy of Sciences from 2007 to 2012 and was the head of the Swiss Nanoscience Institute PhD School from 2013 until 2016.

Libor Juha joins the EPJ Scientific Advisory Committee (SAC)

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Published on 08 April 2020

The Scientific Advisory Committee of EPJ is delighted to welcome Dr. Libor Juha as the new representative for the Czech Physical Society.

Libor Juha obtained his Ph.D. degree at the Faculty of Nuclear Sciences and Engineering Physics of the Czech Technical University in Prague in June 1995. He is the head of the Department of Radiation and Chemical Physics of the Institute of Physics of the Czech Academy of Sciences and the scientific director of the PALS (Prague Asterix Laser System) Research Centre, the joint laboratory between the Institute of Physics and the Institute of Plasma Physics of the Czech Academy of Sciences. He performs experimental investigations of various phenomena occurring on the border between the high-energy-density physics and the high-energy chemistry. His main current research activities are associated with a characterization and applications of XUV/x-ray lasers of various kinds. In addition to that, he is lecturing at the Faculty of Nuclear Sciences and Engineering Physics of the Czech Technical University in Prague and the Faculty of Mathematics and Physics of Charles University in Prague. He spent ten years (2008-2017) in the service to communities of Czech and Slovak physicists as the editor-in-chief of the Czecho-Slovak Journal of Physics - Československý časopis pro fyziku, one among several successors to the Journal for Cultivation of Mathematics and Physics - Časopis pro pěstování mathematiky a fysiky founded in Prague in 1872.

Victoria Vitkova joins the EPJ Scientific Advisory Committee (SAC)

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Published on 18 March 2020

The Scientific Advisory Committee of EPJ is delighted to welcome Professor Victoria Vitkova as the new representative for the Bulgarian Physical Society. She is the head of the Soft Matter Department at the G. Nadjakov Institute of Solid State Physics – Bulgarian Academy of Sciences (ISSP-BAS). Graduated from Sofia University in Quantum Electronics and Laser Physics and in Biophysics and Radiobiology, she defended her PhD in the University of Rennes I, France. Her expertise lies in the field of soft matter physics, rheology of complex fluids and membrane biophysics.