CURRICULUM VITAE OF LEONAS VALKUNAS
 Born
16 01 49 in Vilnius,
Lithuania
 Studies at Vilnius University and Kiev University
1967-1972
 Principal designing engineer at designing and construction
bureau "Puntukas"
1972-1977
 Thesis of candidate of sciences (PhD) maintained at
Vilnius University
1976
 Junior research associate at Institute of Physics
1977-1979
 Senior research associate at Institute of Physics
1977-1988
 Thesis of doctor of sciences (Habil. Dr.)
1986
 Leading research associate at Institute of Physics
1988-up to now
 Director of the Institute of Physics
and Head of Laboratory at Institute of Physics
1992- 2002
 Invited lecturer at Vilnius University
1988-1991
 Associate Professor of Vilnius University
1991-1993
 Professor of Vilnius University
since 1993
 Head of the Department of Theoretical Physics in
Vilnius University
since 2002
 Member of the Lithuanian Academy of Sciences
since 2001
 National Prize for Science
2002
 Adolfas Jucys Prize for Theoretical Physics of the Lithuanian
Academy of Sciences
2010
 Deputy Director and head of the Department in the Center for
Physical Sciences and Technology
since 2010
Member of the editorial board of Lithuanian Journal of Physics.
Current research interests are i) Excitation and charge transfer in photosynthesis,
ii)
Spectroscopy
of
molecular
structures
and
biological
macromolecules,
iii) Nonlinear optics and spectroscopy, iv) Disordered solid states v) Exciton theory.
Fellowships and scientific research activities:
Vilnius University fellowship: for studies at Kiev university (1970-1972).
New York University fellowships: for scientific work in 1989 and 1990.
DFG: Fellowship for scientific work at the University of Dusseldorf in 1990 and 1991.
NWO: Fellowship for scientific work at the Free University of Amsterdam in 1991.
Multiple visits at the Free University in Amsterdam, from 1992 till 2004.
University of Umea fellowship in 1992 and 1994.
Scientific visit to Lund university, 1995.
Scientific visits to the Institute of Atomic and Molecular Science of Academia Sinica, Taiwan, 2002,
2003, 2004, 2008, 2010.
Fulbright Scholar for the sabbatical visit to the University of California at Berkeley 2004-2005.
Scientific conferences in:
USA, Sweden, the Netherlands, Germany, Great Britain, Finland, Italy, France, Hungary, Spain,
Taiwan, Japan, Poland, Estonia, Czech Republic, Russia, Latvia, Bielorus, Ukraine, Turkey, Australia.
Scientific presentations, lectures and visits at:
New York, Rockefeler, New York City, Chicago, New Mexico, Rochester, Arizona Sate, Iowa State,
Georgetown, Cornell, UC San Diego, UC Riverside, UC Irvine, UC Berkeley, USC universities,
MIT, Argonne Nat. lab., -in USA;
Dusseldorf university, Botanisches Institut Universitat Munchen, Max-Plank-Institut fur
Schtrahlenhemie, ZOS in Berlin, - in Germany;
Free University of Amsterdam, Leiden University, Groningen University, - in the Netherlands;
University of Milan, Center of Theoretical Physics in Trieste, - in Italy;
Umea, Linkoping and Lund universities, - in Sweden;
Technical university in Poznan, Poland;
CEA Sacley, France;
Imperial Collage, London, Great Britain;
University of Toronto, Canada;
EPFL, Switzerland;
Institute of Physics in Tartu, Estonia;
Institute of Physics and Energetics, Riga, Latvia;
Institute for Theoretical Physics, Kiev, Ukraine
Coorganizer of the ESF Scientific workshops: “Pigment-protein complexes: structure and
spectroscopic properties” (Preila, 1994) and “Light-harvesting physics” (Birstonas, 1996),
“Femtosecond dynamics in photosynthetic light-harvesting complexes” (Antalya, 2002) and the
organizer of the International conference “Electronic and Related Processes in Organic Systems”
(ERPOS-12, Vilnius, 2011).
Coauthor of the book: H. van Amerongen, L. Valkunas and R. van Grondelle, Photosynthetic excitons,
World Scientific Co., Singapore, 2000.
Number of publications in refereed journals: ~300
Number of communications to scientific meetings: ~200