Reinhard Folk
			email: firstname.lastname@jku.at

Scientific Curriculum vitae

• 1973 Doctoral Thesis at the Institute of Theoretical Physics, University of Vienna entitled "Hydrodynamic Equations of Dielectric Crystals"
  
• 1973 Assistant at the Institute of Theoretical Physics, University of Linz
  
• 1982 Walter Schottky Award of the German Physical Society together with Dr.V.Dohm for the work on the critical dynamics in He4
  
• 1984 Director of the group "Phase Transitions and Critical Phenomena" at the Institute of Theoretical Physics, University of Linz
  
• permanent position as Senior Associate Professor at the Institute of Theoretical Physics, University of Linz
  
• 1. December 2009 retired
  
• 3. December 2009 Degree 'Doctor honoris causa' awarded by the decision of the ICMP (Institute for Condensed Matter Physics) Scientific Council of National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, Lviv
  
• 2021 Member of the Supervisory Board of the Institute for Condensed Matter Physics of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine
  

Positions abroad

• 1979-1980 Scientific visitor at the Institute of Solid State Physics, KFA Jülich, Germany
  
• 1982-1983 Assistant at the Physics Department of the Technical University München, Germany
  
• 1986-1987 Visiting Associate Professor (Chair of Prof. Wölfle) at the Physics Department of the Technical University München, Germany
  

Administrative Acitivities

• Organisation of the meeting MECO33 14.04.-16.04.2008 in Puchberg/Wels
  
• Organisation of the Symposium "Renormalization and Scaling" at the 69. Jahrestagung der Deutschen Physikalischen Gesellschaft (DPG) 4.-9. March 2005 in Berlin
  
• 2002-2007 Austrian Delegate in the Steering Committee of the program Phase Transitions and Fluctuation Phenomena for Random Dynamics in Spatially Extended Systems (RDSES) of ESF
  
• 2006-2009 Austrian Delegate in the Experts Committee of the Domain MPNS - Materials, Physical and Nanosciences of COST
  
• 1998-2006 Austrian Delegate in the Technical Committee on Physics of COST
  
• Member of the faculty over several years, member of various comissions
  
• 1993-2003 Member of the "Bundeskonferenz des wissenschaftlichen und künstlerischen Personals der österreichischen Universitäten und Kunsthochschulen" (BUKO)
  
• 1997-1999 Member of the presidency of the BUKO
  
• 1999-2001 (first period) Chairman of the presidency of the BUKO
  
• 2001-2003 (second and last period) Chairman of the presidency of the BUKO closed by UG2002 on 31.12.03
  see the publications of the BUKO (in german) BUKO-Info
  
• Organisation of the meeting MECO20 21.3.-23.3.1995 in Puchberg/Wels
  
• 1995-2013 Member of the Advisor Commitee of the Middle European Cooperation on Statistical Physics
  
• Member of the Editorial Board of the Ukrainian journal "Condensed Matter Physics" (Ukrainian Academy of Sciences)
  Member of the Austrian Physical Society, Referee for international scientific journals
  

Grants

• Fonds zur Förderung der wissenschaftlichen Forschung: Grant No.5901 and 6759 (1985-1990) "Quantitative Theory of Phase Transitions"
  
• Fonds zur Förderung der wissenschaftlichen Forschung: Grant No.9379-PHY (1993-1996) "Recognition of patterns in networks with multi state neurons"
  
• Ministry of Science, Research and Art: Grant "Microscopic theory of dynamic properties of magnetic liquids" (1994-1996)
  
• Fonds zur Förderung der wissenschaftlichen Forschung: Lise Meitner Scholarschip with the topic "Neural networks for the invariant recognition of visual patterns" for Dr.A.Kartashov (Moscow, Academy of Sciences)(1993/94)
  
• Fonds zur Förderung der wissenschaftlichen Forschung: Grant No. 12422-PHY (1997-2000) "Critical Dynamics of Fluids" and COST P1
  
• Österreichische Nationalbank Jubiläumsfonds: Grant No.7694 (1999-2003)"Kritische Phänomene"
  
• Fonds zur Förderung der wissenschaftlichen Forschung: Grant No. 15247-PHY (2001-2004) "Dynamics of Complex Fluids"
  
• Austrian Exchange Service: Action Austria-Slovakia "Magnetic Fluids and Mixtures with Liquid Crystals" (2002-2003)
  
• Fonds zur Förderung der wissenschaftlichen Forschung: Grant No. 16574-PHY (2003-2007) "Critical Phenomena in disordered systems"
  
• Fonds zur Förderung der wissenschaftlichen Forschung: Grant No. 18592-PHY (2006-2008) "Phase transitions and correlations in complex fluids"
  
• Fonds zur Förderung der wissenschaftlichen Forschung: Grant No. 19583-PHY (2007-2011) "Critical phenomena in pure and disordered Systems"
  
• Project OIAD No. UA 09/2020 (2021 - 2022): Statistical physics and beyond: from the origins to european and global cooperation -from critical phenomena to complex systems
  

Publications

Book

Contibutions in books

Selected Posters, talks and papers

Links

Last modified: 04/2021 by: Folk