CURRICULUM VITAE
Name: Ing.. Pavel Diko DrSc.
Positions held
1978 - Assistant R.W. at the IEP, SAS Kosice; 1981 - Senior R.W at the IEP, SAS Kosice;
1986 - Principal R.W. at the IEP, SAS Kosice; 1990 - Chief R.W at the IEP, SAS Kosice.
1996 - Top research specialist.
1985 - 1990 - Head of Metal physics Department at IEP, SAS Košice.
1987-1995 - Head of 3 scientific project in framework of Slovak Academy of Sciences
1993,1994 - Guest Professor at the Faculty of Technical and Natural Sciences of the Johannes Kepler University Linz.
1992-2007 Head of bilateral international projects.
2007- Head of Material Physics Laboratory at IEP SAS Košice
Head of projects from 1995
Slovak projects
1994-1997 Head of the SAS project GAV 2/1323/94, Crystal defects in High Tc Superconductors
1998 - 2000 Head of the SAS project VEGA 5143, Microstructure and Crystal strycture of High Tc Superconductors
2000 -2009 Head of the SAS projects VEGA 1145, VEGA 4062, VEGA 7052
2006-2009 Head of the Slovak Project APVV 51 – 61505 Design of REBCO Bulk Superconductors
International Projects
1995 -1997 Head of the Slovak-German join project YBCO-HRPLM.
1995- 2000 Head of the Slovak-USA join project: Preparation, Microsstructure and Properties of Melt-Textured 123-211
composites.
1996-1997 Head of the Royal Society Project (Oxford University). Microstructure of Tl based superconducting tapes.
1997 -1999 Head of the DFG project (IPHT Jena). Microstructure of YBCO bulk superconductors.
2000 - 2002 Head of the DFG project (IEP Košice - IPHT Jena). Unterzuchung wachstumsbegrencter-Defecte in Mg YBCO. Project
Nr. SVK 00/005.
2006-2007 Head of the Slovak and France Gov., Pr. No. Stefanik 23, Cracking during oxygenation of YBCO bulk, (ÚEF SAV and
CRETA-CNRS Grenoble),
2006-2007 Head of the Slovak and Spanish Gov. Pr. No. 05/2006, Welding of YBCO bulk superconductors (ÚEF SAV a ICMABCSIC Barcelona),
European projects
2002 - 2006 SCENET, head of the IEP SAS group participating in the 5 RP European Network for Superconductivity.
2001-2007 EFFORT, head of the IEP SAS group participating in the European Forum for Processors of Bulk Superconductors
2006-2010, head of the IEP SAS group participating in the 6 RP Marie Currie Research Trening Network NESPA „Nanoinginiered
Superconductors for Power Applications“.
Long positions abroad
1991-1992
Visiting scientist at the Free University Brussels. Studies of microstructure of high Tc superconductors doped on Cu
sites.
1993 Guest professor at the Faculty of Technical and Natural Sciences of the Johannes Kepler University Linz. Lectures on the
preparation and properties of high Tc superconductors.
1994 Guest professor at the Faculty of Technical and Natural Sciences of the Johannes Kepler University Linz Lectures on the
preparation and properties of high Tc superconductors.
1994 Visiting scientist (DAAD scholarship) at the IPHT Jena. Study of the microstructure of melt-processed Y 123.
1995 Visiting scientist (Royal Society scholarship) at the Material Science Department, Oxford University. Study of the
microstructure of Tl base HTSC.
1996 Visiting scientist (one year JSPS fellowship) at the ISTEC Tokyo, Japan. Microstructure analysis of melt-processed Y-Ba-Cu-O
bulk superconductors.
1997 Visiting scientist (Awarded by Fulbright fellowship for 5 month's stay) at Argonne National Laboratory and University of
Chicago, USA. Solidification of YBCO bulk superconductors.
1999 Visiting scientist (JISTEC fellowship for 3 months stay) at ISTEC Tokyo, Japan. Microstructure of NEG bulk superconductors.
2000 Visiting Scientist at IFW Dresden (9 months). Microstructure of YBCO bulk superconductors with Ag addition.
2001 Visiting Scientist at IFW Dresden (6 months). Cracking in YBCO bulk superconductors with Ag addition.
2002 Visiting Scientist at IFW Dresden (3 months). Cracking in YBCO bulk superconductors during oxygenation.
2003 Visiting Scientist at IFW Dresden (4 months). Formation of new pinning centres in YBCO TSMG bulks.
2006 Visiting Scientist at CRETA CNRS Grenoble (3 months). Cracking in YBCO bulk superconductors
superconductors during oxygenation.
Awards, prices,
1980
Price of Slovak Academy of Sciences for achievements in microstructural studies of Sm-Co intermetallic compounds.
1985 Price of Slovak Academy of Sciences for achievements in studies of deformation
and fracture of metallic glasses.
1996 Director of ISTEC Tokyo '96 Award for results in microstructure analysis of melt- processed Y-Ba-Cu-O bulks
1999 Silver Medal of Aurel Stodola for Achievements in Chemistry and Physics.
1997 Fulbright fellowship for 5 month's study stay in Argonne National Laboratory and University of Chicago, USA.
1991 One year scholarship by Belgium Government for stay at Free University Brussels .
1994 DAAD scholarship for the study stay at IPHT Jena.
1995 Royal Society scholarship for study stay at the Oxford University.
1996 JSPS fellowship for one year study stay in ISTEC Tokyo (1996). JISTEC fellowship for study stay in ISTEC Tokyo, Japan
(1999).
2005 Price of Slovak Academy of Sciences for achievements in microstructural studies of YBCO bulk superconductors.
2005 PASREG Award of excellence, Tokyo 2005, for excellent contribution to the field of large grain
REBCO superconducting materials.