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András Libál
Postdoctoral Fellow
Universiteit Antwerpen
Department Fysica
Groenenborgerlaan 171
2020 Antwerpen, Belgium
Telephone: +32-487374211(cell)
E-Mail: andras.libal@gmail.com
http://www.cmt.ua.ac.be/alibal/
Romanian citizen
Research Interests:
Colloidal, granular and polymer systems
Micromagnetic simulations
Vortices in type-II superconductors
Education:
B.S. Department of Physics, Babes-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca, Romania, 2001
M.Sc. Department of Physics, Babes-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca, Romania, 2002
Ph.D. Department of Physics, University of Notre Dame, IN, USA, 2007
Employment History:
Research Experience:
2001 Undergraduate Researcher
KFKI, Research Institute for Solid State and optics, Budapest, Hungary
2002-2005 Research Assistant
Univeristy of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, IN, USA
2003; 2004 Graduate Research Assistant
Argonne National Laboratory, Argonne, IL, USA
2005; 2006 Graduate Research Assistant
Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM, USA
2007-2008 Postdoctoral Fellow,
Department of Physics, Johns Hopkins University, MD, USA
2008 Visiting Researcher
Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM, USA
2008- Postdoctoral Fellow,
Department Fysica, Universiteit Antwerpen, Belgium
Teaching experience:
2002 Teaching Assistant, Babes-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca, Romania
2004 Teaching Assistant, University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, IN, USA
Honors, Fellowships and Awards:
Award for outstanding presentation in Physics, Student Symposium, Los Alamos, 2006
Award for best thesis in Physics, University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, 2008

Publications:
Published and accepted papers in peer reviewed journals
1. Optical response of a ferromagnetic-diluted magnetic semiconductor hybrid structure
P.Redlinksi, T.G.Rappoport, A.Libál, J.K.Furdyna, B.Jankó, T.Wojtowicz,
Appl. Phys. Lett 86, 113103 (2005)
2. Zero- and one-dimensional magnetic traps
for quasiparticles in diluted magnetic semiconductors
P.Redlinksi, T.Wojtowicz, T.G.Rappoport, A.Libál, J.K.Furdyna, B.Jankó,
Phys. Rev. B 72, 085209 (2005)
3. Control of magnetic vortex chirality in square ring micromagnets
A.Libál , M.Grimsditch, V.Methlusko, P. Vavassori, B.Jankó,
J. Appl. Phys. 98, 083904 (2005)
4. Phase transition in an optimal clusterization model
Z.Néda, R.Florian, M.Ravasz, A.Libál, G.Györgyi
Physica A, 362, 357 (2006)
5. Dynamics, Rectification, and Fractionation for Colloids on Flashing Substrates
A.Libál, C.Reichhardt, B.Jankó, C.J.Olson Reichhardt
Phys. Rev. Lett 96, 188301 (2006)
6. Vortex configurations and dynamics in elliptical pinning sites for high matching fields
C.J.Olson Reichhardt, A.Libál, C.Reichhardt
Phys. Rev. B 73, 184519 (2006)
7. Realizing Colloidal Artificial Ice on Arrays of Optical Traps
A.Libál, C.Reichhardt, C.J.Olson Reichhardt
Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 228302 (2006)
8. Point Defect Dynamics in Two-Dimensional Colloidal Crystals
A.Libál, C.Reichhardt, C.J.Olson Reichhardt
Phys. Rev. E 75, 011403 (2007)
9. Enhancing Mixing and Diffusion with plastic flow
A.Libál, C.Reichhardt, C.J.Olson Reichhardt
Phys. Rev. E 78, 031401 (2008)
Published and accepted conference proceedings
1. Ferromagnetic/DMS hybrid structures:
one- and zero-dimensional magnetic traps for quasiparticles
P.Redlinksi, T.Wojtowicz, T.G. Rappoport, A.Libál, J.K.Furdyna, B.Jankó,
AIP Conf. Proc. Vol. 772, 1291 (part B), (2005)

Submitted manuscripts
1. Vortex Ice in Nanostructured Superconductors
A.Libál, C.Reichhardt, C.J.Olson Reichhardt
submitted to Phys. Rev. Lett. (2008)
http://arxiv.org/abs/0808.3780v1
Manuscripts in preparation
1. Spin strings in supeconducting spin ice
A.Libál, C.Reichhardt, C.J.Olson Reichhardt, M.Milosevic and F. Peeters
Book chapters and review articles
"Elemi Kvantummechanika"
Néda Zoltán, Libál András, Kovács Katalin
(Book on Quantum Mechanics, undergraduate level, in Hungarian)
Babes-Bolyai University, Romania
Presentations:
— talk at the CMT Seminar, Universiteit Antwerpen, February 2009
— Poster at CODEF II, Bonn, April 2008
— talk at the APS March Meeting, New Orleans, March 2008
— talk at the Condensed Matter Seminar, Johns Hopkins, October 2007
— talk at the APS March Meeting, Denver, March 2007
— talk at the research group meeting of Prof. Eric Dufresne
Soft Matter Group, Yale University, September 2006
— Poster at the Student Symposium, Los Alamos, June 2006
— talk at the Center for Nonlinear Studies, Los Alamos, June 2006
— talk at the APS March Meeting, Baltimore, March 2006
— talk at the Conference on Emerging Paradigms in Nonlinear Science,
Los Alamos, January 2006
— Poster at the Workshop on Applications of Methods of Stochastic Systems
and Statistical Physics in Biology, Notre Dame, October 2005
— talk at the Center for Nonlinear Studies, Los Alamos, August 2005
— talk at the Center for Nonlinear Studies, Los Alamos, June 2005
— talk at the Condensed Matter Seminar, Notre Dame, 2004
— talk at the APS March Meeting, Montreal, March 2004
Skills and techniques:
— Operating systems: Windows, Linux
— Coding Languages: C/C++, (OpenGl, MPI)
— Other: Xmgrace, Origin, Tecplot, Mathematica
— Languages: Hungarian (native), Romanian (fluent), English (fluent), German
(moderate)

References:
Dr. Cynthia Olson Reichhardt, Los Alamos National Laboratory, cjrx@lanl.gov
Dr. Charles Reichhardt, Los Alamos National Laboratory,charlesr@cnls.lanl.gov
Dr. Milorad Milosevic, Universiteit Antwerpen, milorad.milosevic@ua.ac.be
Dr. Zoltán Néda, Babes-Bolyai University, zneda@phys.ubbcluj.ro
Dr. Zoltán Toroczkai, University of Notre Dame, toro@nd.edu