Ferenc Járai-Szabó

Personal information

• Date of birth: 11 October 1979
• Place of birth: Odorheiu Secuiesc, Romania
• Married with Melinda Járai-Szabó since 2011, two children (Örs born 2013, Kata born 2015)

Current position

Department of Physics - Hungarian Study-line, Faculty of Physics, Babeș-Bolyai University

Education

Summa cum laude distinction, Faculty of Physics, Babeş-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca, 2003-2007
PhD. Thesis: Calculation of Total and Differential Cross Sections for Fast Ion Impact
Scientific advisor: L. Nagy (Faculty of Physics, Babes-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca, Romania)

Faculty of Physics, Babeş-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca, 2002-2003
MSc. Dissertation: Computer Simulation Study of Entangled Materials
Scientific advisors: D. Rodney, R. Dendievel (GPM2, INP Grenoble, France)

Faculty of Physics, Babeş-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca, 1998-2002
BSc. Dissertation: Second-order Perturbation Study of the Ionization-excitation process of lithium
Scientific advisor: L. Nagy (Faculty of Physics, Babes-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca, Romania)

Competitions and prizes

• Third prize at National Olympiad in Physics, Romania, 1996
• Third prize at National Olympiad in Physics, Romania, 1997
• First prize at the Young Physics Scientists Section of the International Conference "Several Aspects of Biology, Chemistry, Informatics, Mathematics and Physics", Romania, 2005
• "Comenius" prize, Babeș-Bolyai University, Romania, 2011
• Excellence prize for organizing activities in the framework of Scientific Students' Associations (TDK), National Scientific Students' Associations, Hungary, 2015

Scholarships and Scientific Projects

• 2002 – 2003, Scientific Training, Department of Biophysics, Eötvös Lóránd University, Budapest, Hungary
• 2003, ERASMUS/SOCRATES scholarship, GPM2 (INP Grenoble, CNRS), Grenoble, France
• 2003, BCPL Project (Bergen Computational Physics Laboratory), Bergen, Norway
• 2003 – 2004, KPI, Sapientia research project member, Physics of complex systems
• 2004 – 2005, KPI, Sapientia research project member, Synthesis of carbon nanotubes by the spray pyrolysis method, formation of oriented layers and patterns
• 2005, Brâncuși fellowship program – CNRS, Paris, France
• 2005 – 2006, KPI, Sapientia research project member, Study of the effect of the number and order of carbon atoms in nanotube synthesis
• 2005 – 2007, CNCSIS research grant member, Theoretical study of dynamics of nanostructured systems, electronic transitions, quantum effects, director: dr. Ladislau Nagy
• 2005 – 2007, CNCSIS 183/2005 research grant member, Study of nanostructures obtained by capillary effects. Modeling and computer simulations, director: dr. Zoltán Néda
• April, 2006, "Bolyai" Master Workshop for PhD students, Budapest, Hungary, The science of networks
• 2006 – 2008, CEEX research project member, Nobel metal nanostructures and nanoparticles with multifunctional plasmonic properties for relevant applications in nanophotonics, biodetection and laser spectroscopy, director: dr. Simion Aștilean
• 2007 – 2008, member of the research project financed by the Romanian Academy of Science 35/2007 – Ionization of molecules by short laser pulses, interference effects, director: dr. Ladislau Nagy
• 2007 – 2010, member of the PNII-IDEI 539/2007 research project financed by the Romanian National University Research Council – Electron transitions in atoms and molecules produced by charged particles and laser fields, director: dr. Ladislau Nagy
• 2008 – 2011, member of the PNII-IDEI 2369/2008 research project financed by the Romanian National University Research Council – Spring-block models for complex systems, director: dr. Zoltán Néda
• 2010 – 2010, director of the PN II-RU PD_404/2010 project financed by CNCS-UEFISCSU, Spring-block modeling of highway traffic
• 2011 – 2016, member of the PN-II-ID-PCE-2011-3-0192 research project financed by the Romanian National University Research Council – Interaction of atoms and molecules with laser pulses and charged particles, director: dr. Ladislau Nagy
• 2011 – 2016, member of the PN-II-ID-PCE-2011-3-0348 research project financed by the Romanian National University Research Council – Emergent synchronization in complex systems, director: dr. Zoltán Néda
• 2011 – 2016, member of the PN-II-PT-PCCA-2011-3.2-0895 research project financed by the Romanian National University Research Council – Improving scientific evaluation through analysis of scientific networks, director: dr. Mária Ercsey-Ravasz
• 2016 – 2018, member of the PN-III-P2-2.1-BG-2016-0252 Bridge Grant research project financed by the Romanian National University Research Council – Developing an optimal scientometric indicator, director: dr. Mária Ercsey-Ravasz
• 2017 – 2019, member of the PN-III-P4-ID-PCE-2016-0363 research project financed by the Romanian National University Research Council – Emerging spatio-temporal patterns in physical and socio-economic systems, director: dr. Zoltán Néda

Books

1. Járai-Szabó Ferenc (ed.), XXXII. Országos Tudományod Diákköri Konferencia Fizika, Földtudományok és Matematika Szekciójának Kivonatkötete, Presa Universitara Clujeana, ISBN 978-973-595-834-3, 2015
2. Lázár Zsolt, Lázár József, Járai-Szabó Ferenc, Numerikus módszerek, Presa Universitara Clujeana, ISBN 978-973-610-763-4, 978-973-610-756-6, 2008
3. Néda Árpád, Sárközi Zsuzsa, Járai-Szabó Ferenc, Deák Róbert, Mechanika és hőtan laboratóriumi jegyzet, Presa Universitara, Cluj-Napoca, ISBN 973-610-420-6, 2006

ISI articles

1. Néda, Z., Járai-Szabó, F., Boda, S., Cell-size distribution and scaling in a one-dimensional Kolmogorov-Johnson-Mehl-Avrami lattice model with continuous nucleation, (2017) Physical Review E, 96 (4), art. no. 042145, DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevE.96.042145
2. Lázár, Z.I., Papp, I., Varga, L., Járai-Szabó, F., Deritei, D., Ercsey-Ravasz, M., Stochastic graph Voronoi tessellation reveals community structure (2017) Physical Review E, 95 (2), art. no. 022306, DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevE.95.022306
3. Járai-Szabó, F., Nagy, L., Theoretical investigations on the projectile coherence effects in fully differential ionization cross sections (2015) European Physical Journal D, 69 (1), DOI: 10.1140/epjd/e2014-50640-2
4. Deritei, D., Lázár, Z.I., Papp, I., Járai-Szabó, F., Sumi, R., Varga, L., Regan, E.R., Ercsey-Ravasz, M., Community detection by graph Voronoi diagrams (2014) New Journal of Physics, 16, art. no. 063007, DOI: 10.1088/1367-2630/16/6/063007
5. Sándor, B., Járai-Szabó, F., Tél, T., Néda, Z., Chaos on the conveyor belt (2013) Physical Review E - Statistical, Nonlinear, and Soft Matter Physics, 87 (4), art. no. 042920, DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevE.87.042920
6. Járai-Szabó, F., Néda, Z., Earthquake model describes traffic jams caused by imperfect driving styles (2012) Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications, 391 (22), pp. 5727-5738. DOI: 10.1016/j.physa.2012.06.037
7. Járai-Szabó, F., Néda, Z., Winning strategies in congested traffic (2012) International Journal of Modern Physics C, 23 (9), art. no. 1250063, DOI: 10.1142/S0129183112500635
8. Horvát, E.-Á., Járai-Szabó, F., Brechet, Y., Néda, Z., Spring-block approach for crack patterns in glass (2012) Central European Journal of Physics, 10 (4), pp. 926-935. DOI: 10.2478/s11534-012-0030-2
9. Járai-Szabó, F., Horvát, E.-A., Vajtai, R., Néda, Z., Spring-block approach for nanobristle patterns (2011) Chemical Physics Letters, 511 (4-6), pp. 378-383. DOI: 10.1016/j.cplett.2011.06.068
10. Járai-Szabó, F., Nagy, L., Semiclassical fully differential ionization cross sections of helium with negatively charged fast projectiles (2011) Central European Journal of Physics, 9 (4), pp. 942-947. DOI: 10.2478/s11534-010-0120-y
11. Járai-Szabó, F., Sándor, B., Néda, Z. , Spring-block model for a single-lane highway traffic (2011) Central European Journal of Physics, 9 (4), pp. 1002-1009. DOI: 10.2478/s11534-011-0007-6
12. Horváth, Á.E., Járai-Szabó, F., Kaptay, G., Vajtai, R., Néda, Z. , Pattern formation and selection in nanotube arrays (2010) UPB Scientific Bulletin, Series A: Applied Mathematics and Physics, 72 (1), pp. 27-32.
13. Néda Z., Járai-Szabó F. , Káptalan E., Mahnke R., Spring-block models and highway traffic (2009) Control Engineering and Applied Informatics, 11 (4), pp. 3-10.
14. Járai-Szabó, F., Nagy-Póra, K., Nagy, L., Semiclassical model for calculating fully differential ionization cross sections of the H2 molecule (2009) Journal of Physics B: Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics, 42 (24), art. no. 245203, DOI: 10.1088/0953-4075/42/24/245203
15. Járai-Szabó, F., Nagy, L., Impact parameter method calculations for fully differential ionization cross sections (2009) Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research, Section B: Beam Interactions with Materials and Atoms, 267 (2), pp. 292-294. DOI: 10.1016/j.nimb.2008.10.064
16. Horváth, E.-Á., Járai-Szabó, F., Néda, Z., Spring-block type models for crack propagation in glass plates (2008) Journal of Optoelectronics and Advanced Materials, 10 (9), pp. 2433-2437.
17. Baran, J.L., Das, S., Járai-Szabó, F., Póra, K., Nagy, L., Tanis, J.A., Suppression of primary electron interferences in the ionization of N2 by 1-5-MeVu protons (2008) Physical Review A - Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics, 78 (1), art. no. 012710, DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevA.78.012710
18. Járai-Szabó, F., Nagy, L., Semiclassical description of kinematically complete experiments (2007) Journal of Physics B: Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics, 40 (21), pp. 4259-4267. DOI: 10.1088/0953-4075/40/21/012
19. Járai-Szabó, F., Néda, Z., Aştilean, S., Farcǎu, C., Kuttesch, A., Shake-induced order in nanosphere systems (2007) European Physical Journal E, 23 (2), pp. 153-159. DOI: 10.1140/epje/i2006-10194-9
20. Ferenc, J.-S., Néda, Z., On the size distribution of Poisson Voronoi cells (2007) Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications, 385 (2), pp. 518-526. DOI: 10.1016/j.physa.2007.07.063
21. Járai-Szabó, F., Kuttesch, A., Aştilean, S., Néda, Z., Chakrapami, N., Ajayan, P.M., Vajtai, R., Spring-block type models for capillarity-driven self-organized nanostructures (2006) Journal of Optoelectronics and Advanced Materials, 8 (3), pp. 1083-1087.
22. Járai-Szabó, F., Aştilean, S., Néda, Z., Understanding self-assembled nanosphere patterns (2005) Chemical Physics Letters, 408 (4-6), pp. 241-246. DOI: 10.1016/j.cplett.2005.04.051
23. Járai-Szabó, F., Nagy, L., Fritzsche, S., Correlation effects for double K-shell vacancy production in lithium by fast charged projectile impact (2005) Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research, Section B: Beam Interactions with Materials and Atoms, 233 (1-4), pp. 276-279. DOI: 10.1016/j.nimb.2005.03.121
24. Nagy, L., Járai-Szabó, F., Fritzsche, S., Ionization-excitation of lithium by fast charged projectiles (2005) Journal of Physics B: Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics, 38 (3), pp. 141-150. DOI: 10.1088/0953-4075/38/3/001

Other articles

1. Sandor B., Jarai-Szabo F., Neda Z., Tel T., Káosz a futószalagon (2014) Fizikai Szemle, 2014/2 , pp. 40 - 45.
2. Járai-Szabó F., Forgalommodellezés rugókkal és testekkel (2014) FIRKA - Fizika Informatika Kémia Alapok, 24/2, pp. 5-8.
3. Jarai-Szabo F., Lane-changing with decision in a two-lane spring-block traffic model (2012) Studia UBB Physica, 56, pp. 13 - 18.
4. Jarai-Szabo F., Spring-block models and the multi-lane highway traffic (2011) Studia UBB Physica, 56, pp. 79 - 85.
5. Járai-Szabó F. and Nagy L., Calculation of fully differential cross sections with semi-classical, impact parameter method, (2008) Műszaki Szemle, Fizika szám 41, 18-23. (in hungarian)
6. Dumitrescu D., Járai-Szabó F., Simon K., Link-Cell Method for Evolutionary Multi-Modal Optimization. Application in Dynamic Evolutionary Clustering (2004) Carpathian Journal of Mathematics, 20 (2), 177.

Conference proceedings

1. Nagy, L., Borbély, S., Járai-Szabó, F., Theoretical study on projectile coherence effects in fully differential ionization cross sections (2017) Journal of Physics: Conference Series, 875 (10), art. no. 092009, DOI: 10.1088/1742-6596/875/10/092009
2. Járai-Szabó, F., Borbély, S., Nagy, L., Projectile coherence effects studied by ab initio calculations (2015) Journal of Physics: Conference Series, 635 (2), art. no. 022037, DOI: 10.1088/1742-6596/635/2/022037
3. Nagy, L., Járai-Szabó, F., Projectile coherence effects investigated for the ionization of helium (2014) Journal of Physics: Conference Series, 488 (SECTION 8), art. no. 082011, DOI: 10.1088/1742-6596/488/8/082011
4. Bakos, K., Dombi, A., Járai-Szabó, F., Néda, Z., Fragmentation of drying paint layers (2013) AIP Conference Proceedings, 1564, pp. 205-210. DOI: 10.1063/1.4832819
5. Papp, I., Ercsey-Ravasz, M., Deritei, D., Sumi, R., Járai-Szabó, F., Florian, R.V., Cǎbuz, A.I., Lázár, Z.I., The p-index: Hirsch index of individual publications (2013) Proceedings of ISSI 2013 - 14th International Society of Scientometrics and Informetrics Conference, 2, pp. 2086-2088.
6. Járai-Szabó, F., Nagy, L., Semiclassical fully differential cross section calculations for the ionization of small molecules (2009) Journal of Physics: Conference Series, 194 (10), art. no. 102037, DOI: 10.1088/1742-6596/194/10/102037
7. Néda Z., Járai-Szabó F., Káptalan E., Spring-block Models for Complex Phenomena, (2009) Proceedings CSCS 17, IAFA10, vol. 3, 78-81.
8. Baran, J.L., Das, S., Járai-Szabó, F., Nagy, L., Tanis, J.A., Interferences in electron emission spectra from 1, 3 and 5 MeV H + + N2 collisions (2007) Journal of Physics: Conference Series, 58 (1), art. no. 045, pp. 215-218. DOI: 10.1088/1742-6596/58/1/045
9. Dumitrescu D., Járai-Szabó F., Simon K., Link-Cell Methods for Dynamic Evolutionary Clustering (2004) Proceedings of SYNASC04, Editura Mirton, Romania, ISBN 973-661-441-7, pp. 480.

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