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New europe profesor s tefan luby
Prof. Ing. Štefan Luby, DrSc., Dr. h. c. mult. (born 6 May 1941, Bratislava) is a Slovak physicist and senior research fellow at the Slovak Academy of Sciences (SAS). He is Doctor honoris causa of University of Salento, Italy, Slovak University of Technology in Bratislava, University of Constantine the Philosopher in Nitra, Slovakia, and Alexander Dubček University in Trenčín, Slovakia. He occupied positions of the Director of the Institute of Physics of SAS for the period of 9 years and was the President of SAS 14 years (1995–2009). He was the Acting President of the All European Academies (federation of European academies of sciences and arts) and the Acting President of the Central European Academy of Sciences and Arts. At present, he is a member of Senate and Vice-president of the European Academy of Sciences and Arts with the headquarters in Salzburg. He has chaired the Editorial Board of the Slovak Encyclopaedia Beliana since 1992.
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- New europe profesor s tefan luby
- Nov eur pa new europe tefan luby sk
- Biography
- Teaching
- Family
- Member of scientific societies
- Awards prizes
- Publications
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His research field covers physics of semiconductors and metals, electronic devices, laser technology, X-ray optics, nanoscience and nanotechnology. He published more than 400 scientific papers, 8 patents and 10 books of non-fiction literature.
Nov eur pa new europe tefan luby sk
Biography
He spent his childhood in Liptovský Hrádok. He attended primary and secondary schools in Bratislava. He graduated at the Faculty of Electrotechnology of the Slovak University of Technology in Bratislava in 1963. He started his professional career at the Faculty of Natural Sciences of P. J. Šafárik University in Košice, Slovakia. In 1964 he joined the Slovak Academy of Sciences where he has been employed since then. He defended his DrSc. degree in 1982 and habilitated as the Assistant Professor at the Faculty of Mathematics and Physics of the Comenius University in Bratislava ten years later. In 1996 he obtained full professorship in physics at the Slovak University of Technology. He acts as a senior research fellow at the Institute of Physics of SAS. As the Humboldt fellow, he acted also as a visiting researcher or visiting professor at universities in Stuttgart and Bielefeld in Germany. He spent altogether 4 years at various foreign universities or research institutes (Germany, Italy, USA, Japan, Greece and former Soviet Union).
Teaching
Slovak University of Technology, Comenius University, University of Salento, lecturing, 30 diploma and doctoral students.
Family
Father Prof. JUDr. Štefan Luby (1910), DrSc. (†1976) is one of the founders of the Slovak juridical sciences, mother JUDr. Anna Lubyová (†1989) was a lawyer, spouse Dipl. Ing. Želmíra Lubyová (†1996) was a researcher in chemistry, elder daughter JUDr. Mgr. Martina Lubyová, PhD.(*1967) is at present the Director of the Institute for Forecasting of SAS, before she was the Head of the branch of International Labour Office, Geneve, in Moscow, younger daughter Mgr. Barbora Lubyová, PhD. (*1968) is at present a researcher at the Institute of Immunology and Microbiology of the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic in Prague, before she performed her research at the Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore.
Member of scientific societies
Awards, prizes
Publications
Most important scientific papers
Non-fiction literature
of SAS,Bratislava 2014, 175 p., in Slovak.