CURRICULUM VITAE
Øystein Prytz
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Amtmann Meinichs gate 19A, 0482 Oslo, Norway
Department of Physics, P. O. Box 1048 – Blindern, NO-0316 Oslo, Norway
+47 22840684 (office), +47 93201512 (home)
oystein.prytz[]fys.uio.no
29 March 1979
Academic Degrees
2007
Ph.D. in physics from the University of Oslo.
Title of thesis: «Electronic structure and bonding in thermoelectric skutterudites».
2003
M.Sc. in physics from the University of Oslo, specializing in Materials Science. Title of thesis:
«Phase separation, transformation and domain formation in LaNbO4 supersaturated with Sr; A TEM
study».
2001
B.Sc. in physics at the University of Oslo, specializing in Materials Science.
Work Experience
2011-
Researcher at the Department of Physics, University of Oslo.
2007-2011
Post doctoral fellow at the Department of Physics, University of Oslo.
2003-2007
Research fellow at the Centre for Materials Science and Nanotechnology, University of Oslo.
Executive officer for the «School of functional materials and nanotechnology» at the University of
Oslo.
Summer
2001
Summer
2000
Summer
1999
Summer
1998
Research assistant at SINTEF Materials Technology, Oslo, Norway.
Summer intern at Ericsson AS, Billingstad, Norway.
Research assistant at the Norwegian Defence Research Establishment, Kjeller, Norway.
Research assistant at the Norwegian Defence Research Establishment, Kjeller, Norway.
Elected Offices
2009-
Board member at the Department of Physics, University of Oslo.
2007-
Member of the program council for the B.Sc. and M.Sc. programme ”Materials, Energy and
Nanotechnology”, University of Oslo.
Board member at the Centre for Materials Science and Nanotechnology, University of Oslo.
2002-05
2002
President of the student council at the Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences, University of
Oslo.
2002
Board member at the Department of Physics, University of Oslo.
2000-02
Member of the student council at the Department of Physics, University of Oslo.
2000-01
President of the Norwegian Association of Physics Students.
2000
Board member at the Department of Physics, University of Oslo.
19992001
Board member of The International Association for the Exchange of Students for Technical
Experience (IAESTE), Oslo, Norway.
1995-98
Member of the regional board (Akershus) of the Young European Federalists of Norway.
Research Stays Abroad
2006
2006
1 month stay at Brookhaven National Lab, USA. Quantitative electron diffraction in collaboration
with the TEM group headed by prof. Yimei Zhu.
4 month stay at the California Institute of Technology, USA. Electron energy-loss spectroscopy in
collaboration with profs. Channing C. Ahn and Brent Fultz.
Theses
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Ø. Prytz. Electronic structure and bonding in thermoelectric skutterudites. Ph. D. thesis, Department
of Physics, University of Oslo, June 2007.
Ø. Prytz. Phase separation, transformation and domain formation in LaNbO4 supersaturated with Sr;
A TEM study. Master's thesis, Department of Physics, University of Oslo, May 2003.
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Teaching and other relevant activities
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Co-organiser of the workshop ”From Blue Pigment to Green Energy: Cobalt mines - Skutterudites Thermoelectrics” in Vikersund/Skuterud 5 – 8 september 2011.
Invited speaker at SCANDEM 2011, Oulu, Finland 8 – 10 July 2011.
Extensive work in organizing the NORTEM infrastructure initiative 2008 – 2011. UiO representative
in preparing the application and public tender, main UiO representative in the evaluation and
purchasing committee.
Referee for Solid State Ionics and Philosophical Magazine.
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Co-organiser of the ”Workshop on the electronic structure and functionality of thermoelectric
materials” in Reykjavik 30 July - 1 August 2007.
Session chair for the symposium on thermoelectric materials at the MS&T conference in Pittsburgh,
USA, September 2008.
Extensive work in organising applications to the Norwegian Research Council. In particular
applications to FRINAT (2005), NANOMAT (2006), BILAT (2007), and FRIENERGI (2009). Also,
UiOs representative in the NORTEM infrastructure initiatives in 2008-2011.
Posterpris at the SCANDEM 2003 conference in Oslo. Ø. Prytz, E. Sørbrøden, T. Norby and J. Taftø.
Twin boundaries in LaNbO4.