Forró László
Academic titles:
- Doctor of Science
Membership in the Academy:
- corresponding member – Department of Mathematical, Physical and Chemical Sciences (5/20/2010 – …)
Curriculum Vitae
László Forró, a Hungarian physicist, was born in Bačko Petrova Selo in 1955. He received his master’s degree in Budapest in 1979 and received his Doctorate in 1985 from the Faculty of Science, University of Zagreb. He worked as a researcher at the Institute of Physics at the University of Zagreb, and at the Ruhr-Universitat Bochum, Fonteney aux Roses and Grenoble in France, the State University of New York and Columbia university, New York, as a visiting professor.
He has been a full professor at the Federal Polytechnic School in Lausanne (École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne) since 2002, and throughout his successful, scientific activity he has worked or collaborated with scientific institutions in Croatia, especially with the Institute of Physics and with the Faculty of Science, University of Zagreb.
He is one of the world’s leading researchers in the experimental physics of condensed substances and has extended his interest to biological systems.
His major research fields are quantum electronic materials, functional nanostructures, and biomaterials.
The topics he deals with are:
– Synthesis, physical properties and manipulation of carbon nanostuctures and nanostuctured arrays
– Oxidative stress, studied by ESR, AFM, SIRMS, PFM. Toxicity study of various nanostuctures
– Mechanical properties of biological tubular systems, carbon nanotubes, carbon onions by AFM
– Transport and electron spin resonance studies of molecular materials, quasi-one-dimensional organic metals, organic superconductors, cuprates, manganates and fullerenes – up to high pressures
– Tunneling spectroscopy in cuprate and fullerene superconductors
– Optical properties of strongly correlated systems and biomaterials
László Forró ‘s papers have been cited more than 13,000 times. The key to such exceptional success lies in the choice of relevant problems related to its extraordinary intuitive notion of physical phenomena and understanding of their theoretical processing, in treating these problems with the most adequate experimental methods and in the ability to gather collaborators and raise young researchers, including many from Croatia.
László Forró is a full member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences and was elected as a correspondent member of the Croatian Academy of Sciences and Arts in 2010.