Resume

 
Name:  János L. Lábár
Profession:  physicist 
Citizenship: Hungarian
Date and place of birth: January 22, 1953, Szőny (Hungary)
Family status: Married: Wife: Mária Szabó (Nurse + Teacher of Health Subjects)
Children: Csaba (m, 1978);  Annamaria (f, 1982)
Home address: H-1188, Budapest, Rákóczi u 10/B (Phone: (36) (1) 294-98-99)
Office 1:

Research Institute for Technical Physics and Materials Science,
Head of Thin Film Physics Laboratory
H-1121, Budapest, Konkoly-Thege 29-33; 
H-1525, Budapest, P.O.Box 49, 
phone: (36)(1)392-26-92;  fax: (36)(1) 392-22-73; 
e-mail: labar@mfa.kfki.hu 

Office 2:

Associate Professor at the Department of General Physics
Eötvös Loránd University
Budapest, 1117, Pázmány Péter sétány 1/a
H-1518 Budapest P.O.B. 32
Secretariat phone number: +36-1-372-2845
e-mail: labar@metal.elte.hu

Education: Secondary Grammar School: 1967-1971, Komárom (Hungary)
Eötvös University, Budapest, 1972-1977, M.Sc. in physics
Learned languages:
  • English (advanced level) 
  • Russian (basic level)
Scientific Degrees and Awards:
  • Outstanding Young Scientist Award (second grade), Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest, 1979 
  • Univerity Dr. in physics Eötvös University, Budapest, 1986 
  • Ph.D. in physics Hungarian Committee of Scientific Qualification, Budapest, 1991 
  • Award of the Electron Microscopy Foundation, 1996
  • Dr. habil., University of Debrecen, 2000 
  • D.Sc., Hungarian Academy of Sciences, 2005
  • MFA Researcher Prize, 2005
Affiliation:
  • Member of the International Advisory Board  of EMAS (1987-97) 
  • Secretary of the EMAS Working Group on Standardless Analysis (1993-1999)
  • Board Member of EMAS (1999-)
  • Vice President of EMAS (2005-)
  • Board member of the Microscopy Society of Hungary (1994- )
  • Member of the Working Group for Solid- and Surface-Chemistry of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences
  • Member of the Hungarian National Committee of IUCr
  • Member of the Hungarian National Committee of IUVSTA
Experience:  Research in 
  • Thin film physics
  • Materials science applying WDS, EDS, SEM, TEM, AEM, EELS, SAED, CBED, ALCHEMI 
  • Solid state reactions 
  • Ordering in crystals 
Development of software for
  • Processing electron diffraction ring patterns from polycrystalline samples (free download from the authors home page) [Visual Basic]
  • Electron probe microanalysis of
    • homogeneous bulk samples without standards [FORTRAN]
    • layer on top of a bulk substrate [FORTRAN]
    • individual particles [FORTRAN]
    • computer control of a scanning electron microscope (in 1980) [ MACRO Assembler]
Teaching: Lecturing on electron microscopy and microanalysis
  • Eötvös University, Budapest (1993-); Invited lecturer (1996-1999); Associate Professor (2000- )
  • Kossuth University, Debrecen (1994-2000) 
  • Technical University, Budapest (1996-)

Supervising

  • Ph.D. Thesis (Eötvös Loránd University, 2005-)
  • B.Sc. Thesis, Charles University, Prague (Czech Republic, 2003-)
  • B.Sc. Theses, Technical University, Budapest (1990- ) 
Longer visits abroad:
  • 1986/87: 6 moths at the University of Oxford, UK 
  • 1991: 2 months at the NIST, Gaithersburg, USA
  • 2004: 2 months as an invited professor at Paul Cézanne University, Marseille, France
Publications:  65 papers in refereed journals and >60 in conference proceedings
Invitations: Presented >30 invited lectures at International Conferences and schools (USA, Italy, Germany, Poland, Spain....)
Citations: About 300 independent citations arrived to his publications
Refereeing: Acted as referee >70 times for foreign Grant Agencies and Journals
Organizing conferences:
  • Chairman of the Organizing and Scientific Committee: 2nd  Regional Workshop of EMAS, Balatonfüred, 1996 
  • Member of the Scientific Committees for European workshops: (EMAS’91, EMAS’93, EMAS’95, EMAS'96, EMAS'97,  EMAS'2000, EMAS'2001, EMAS'2002,  EMAS'2003, EMAS'2004, EMAS'2005, EMAS'2006, EMAS'2007,  XIth Int. Conf. On Electron Microscopy of Solids, Krynicza (2002, Poland),MicroCEM, Zakopane (2005, Poland))
  • Co-director of NATO ASI on Electron Crystallography, 2004, Erice (Italy)
Member of the editorial board: MICRON, The International Research and Review Journal for Microscopy, (1997-2004)
Editor:
  • Proceedings of EMAS’96
  • Special Issue on Ion Beam Techniques, Micron (1999)
 
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