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Born: March 16, 1941 in Prague
Nationality: Czech
Affiliation:
- Institute of Physics, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic
- Na Slovance 2, 182 21 Praha 8
- Tel: +4202 66052166, Fax: +4202 86890527, e-mail: petzelt@fzu.cz
Academic background:
- 1963 - Graduated from Faculty of Mathematics and Physics, Charles University, Prague, specialisation solid state physics
- 1972 - CSc. (equivalent to PhD) thesis on "Far infrared spectroscopy of soft modes near ferroelectric phase transitions"
- 1992 - DSc. thesis on "Long-wavelength dielectric spectroscopy of low-energy lattice excitations in ferroelectrics and related materials"
Employment: Since 1963 Institute of Physics, Czech. Acad. Sci., Prague
Fellowships abroad:
- 1965 (6 months): University of Moscow
- 1973 (10 months): ETH Zürich
- 1976 (10 weeks): J. Stefan Institute, Ljubljana
- 1983 (3 months): University of Nebraska, Lincoln
- 1985 (3 months): University of Saarbrücken
- 1992 (2 months): ETH Zürich
- 1991-3 (3x1 month): EPF Lausanne
- 1999 (2 months): University of Aveiro
Research areas:
- Far infrared, Raman and inelastic neutron spectroscopy of crystals, ceramics, thin films and composites
- Dynamics in ordered and disordered ferroelectrics, relaxor ferroelectrics, antiferroelectrics, incipient and doped incipient ferroelectrics, dipolar glasses, and fast ionic conductors
- Dielectric losses in microwave materials
- Phase transitions and soft and central modes
- Lattice dynamics in incommensurate structures
- Effective dielectric response in inhomogeneous media
Other:
- Author and co-author of over 290 publications (including 45 invited papers and review articles and 190 joint publications with foreign laboratories) with about 2000 citations.
- 1981 award: joint prize (together with G. V. Kozlov and A. A. Volkov, Institute of General Physics, Moscow) of Czechoslovak and Soviet Academy of Sciences on "Submillimetre spectroscopy of structural phase transitions".
- 1993 up: head of the Department of Dielectrics
- Member of the Steering Committee of the European Meeting on Ferroelectricity (since 1991) and International Meeting on Ferroelectricity (since 1997).
- Associate Editor of the journal Ferroelectrics (since 1994).
- Member of the Steering Committee of the section "Structural and Dynamical Properties of Solids" of the EPS Condensed Matter Division (since 1999).
- Chairman of the 9th European Meeting on Ferroelectricity (Prague 1999).
- Member of the Advisory Board for Journal of Physics: Condensed Matter (since 2001).
Languages: Czech, English, German, Russian
List of some significant publications (up to 2004)
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