Jungwirth Tomáš

prof., PhD.
Born October 23, 1967 in Prague

• condensed matter physics; materials science; many-body phenomena; electronic properties of semiconductor heterostructures, low-dimensional systems, and nanostructures; quantum Hall eects; carrier-mediated ferromagnetism in diluted magnetic semiconductors; magnetic, magneto-transport and magneto-optical properties of ferromagnetic semiconductors; spin-orbit coupling phenomena; anisotropic magnetoresistace in magnetic bulk and nano-devices, anomalous and spin Hall efects, metal and semiconductor spintronics
• Member of Learned Society since 2009

Educational and professional preparation:

• M.S. degree in physics, Charles University Praha, 1991.
• PhD. degree in condensed matter physics, Charles University Praha 1997
• Postdoctoral Fellow, Indiana University 1997-1999
• Research Fellow, University of Texas 2000-2002

Employment and academic positions:

• Head of Dept. of Spintronics and Nanoelectronics, Institute of Physics ASCR
• Professor, University of Nottingham
• Adjunct Professor, University of Texas

Membership and positions in international organizations and societies:

• Member of the International Advisory Committee of the ICMFS (International Colloquium on Magnetic Thin Films and Surfaces)
• Panel Member for the ERC Advanced Grant evaluation
• Member of the Advisory Committee of the EU Program EUROCORES
• External panel member and referee for the UK EPSRC Grant Agency, US Department
  of Energy and National Science Foundation
• Member of the Scientic Council of the Grant Agency of the Czech Republic
• External Advisor of Hitachi Cambridge Laboratory
• Member of the American Physical Society

Notable awards:

• Milan Odehnal Prize of the Union of Czech Mathematicians and Physisists, 1996
• Josef Hlávka Prize, 1996
• Bolzano Foundation Prize of the European Physical Society, 1996
• NATO-NSF Advanced Fellowship, 2000
• Otto Wichterle Prize of the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, 2002
• Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic Prize, 2005
• Otto Wichterle Prize of the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic (2002).

Selected publications:

• T. Jungwirth, P. Horodyska, N. Tesařová, P. Němec, J. Šubrt, P. Malý, P. Kužel, C. Kadlec, J. Mašek, I. Němec, M.Orlita,V. Novák, K. Olejník, Z. Šobáň, P. Vašek, P. Svoboda, Jairo Sinova 
  Systematic study of Mn-doping trends in optical properties of (Ga,Mn)As 
  Phys. Rev. Lett. 105 (2010) 227201(1) - 227201(4).
• J. Mašek, F. Máca, J. Kudrnovský, O. Makarovský, L. Eaves, R. P. Campion, K. W. Edmonds, A. W. Rushforth, C. T. Foxon, B. L. Gallagher, V. Novák, Jairo Sinova, T. Jungwirth 
  Microscopic analysis of the valence band and impurity band theories of (Ga,Mn)As 
  Phys. Rev. Lett. 105 (2010) 227202(1) - 227202(4). 
• J. Wunderlich, B. G. Park, A. C. Irvine, L. P. Zarbo, E. Rozkotová, P. Němec, V. Novák, Jairo Sinova, T. Jungwirth 
  Spin Hall effect transistor 
  Science 330 (2010) 1801 - 1804. 
• J. Wunderlich, A. C. Irvine, Jairo Sinova, B. G. Park, L. P. Zarbo, X. L. Xu, B. Kaestner, V. Novák, T. Jungwirth 
  Spin-injection Hall effect in a planar photovoltaic cell 
  Nature Physics 5 (2009) 675 - 681. 
• T. Jungwirth, B. L. Gallagher, J. Wunderlich 
  Transport properties of ferromagnetic semiconductors 
  Spintronics, Semiconductors and Semimetals vol. 82, p. 135-205 (Elsevier, 2008) 
• V. Novák, K. Olejník, J. Wunderlich, M. Cukr, K. Výborný, A. W. Rushforth, K. V. Edmonds, R. P. Campion, B. L. Gallagher, Jairo Sinova, T. Jungwirth 
  Curie point singularity in the temperature derivative of resistivity in (Ga,Mn)As 
  Phys. Rev. Lett. 101 (2008) 077201-1 - 077201-4. 
• I. Stolichnov, S. W. E. Riester, H. J. Trodahl, N. Setter, A. W. Rushforth, K. W. Edmonds, R. P. Campion, C. T. Foxon, B. L. Gallagher, T. Jungwirth 
  Non-volatile ferroelectric control of ferromagnetism in (Ga,Mn)As 
  Nature Materials 7 (2008) 464 - 467. 
• T. Jungwirth, J. Sinova, J. Mašek, J. Kučera, A.H. MacDonald 
  Theory of ferromagnetic (III,Mn)V semiconductors 
  Rev. Mod. Phys. 78 (2006) 809 - 864. 
• J. Wunderlich, B. Kaestner, J. Sinova, T. Jungwirth 
  Experimental observation of the spin-Hall effect in a two dimensional spin-orbit coupled semiconductor system 
  Phys. Rev. Lett. 94 (2005) 047204(1) - 047204. 
• J. Sinova, D. Culcer, Q. Niu, N. Sinitsyn, T. Jungwirth, A.H. MacDonald 
  Universal intrinsic spin-Hall effect 
  Phys. Rev. Lett. 92 (2004) 126603(1) - 126603(4). 
• T. Jungwirth, Qian Niu, A.H. MacDonald 
  Anomalous Hall Effect in Ferromagnetic Semiconductors 
  Phys. Rev. Lett. 88 (2002) 207208(1) - 207208(4). 
• V. Piazza, V. Pellegrini, F. Beltram, W. Wegscheider, T. Jungwirth, A. H. MacDonald 
  First-order phase transitions in a quantum Hall ferromagnet 
  Nature 402 (1999) 638 - 641.