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Jacek Dobaczewski
Warsaw University
Institute of Theoretical Physics
Hoza 69, PL-00681 Warsaw, Poland
Warsaw, 4 November 2008







CURRICULUM VITAE




1. Personal information

Name: Jacek Dobaczewski
Address: Institute of Theoretical Physics
  Warsaw University
  Hoza 69, PL-00-681 Warsaw
  POLAND
Phone: +48 (22) 5532-248 (office)
  +48 (22) 628-3396 (secretary office)
Fax: +48 (22) 621-9475
E-mail: Jacek.Dobaczewski@fuw.edu.pl
WWW: http://www.fuw.edu.pl/~ dobaczew/
Date of Birth: May 9, 1952
Place of Birth: P\lonsk, POLAND
Family Status: Divorced, two sons (Micha\l born 1977 and Piotr born 1985)
Present Employment: Professor, Warsaw University & Jyväskylä University




2. Education and Degrees

Secondary studies: School "Jan Zamoyski" in Warsaw
M.Sc. in Physics: Warsaw University, 1974
Ph.D. in Theoretical Nuclear Physics: Warsaw University, 1979
D.Sc. (habilitation): Warsaw University, 2 Sep. 1991
Professor degree: Warsaw University, 8 Jul. 1997




3. Employment History

Assistant: Warsaw University, 1974 - 1980
Adjunct professor: Warsaw University, 1980 - 1993
Associate professor: Warsaw University, 1993 - 31 Jan. 2002
Full professor: Warsaw University, 1 Feb. 2002 - present
FiDi professor: Jyväskylä University, 2007 - 2011




4. Visiting Positions:

Postdoc: 18 months at the Institut de Physique Nucléaire
  Orsay, France, 1981-1982
Postdoc: 12 months at the W. K. Kellogg Laboratory, California Institute of Technology
  Pasadena, U.S.A., 1982-1983
Visiting associate: 12 months at the Centre d'Etudes Nucléaires de Saclay
  Saclay, France, 1987-1988
Visiting associate: 9 months at the Institut de Physique Nucléaire
  Orsay, France, 1988-1989
Visiting professor: Stellenbosch University, South Africa,
  August-September 1990
Visiting professor: Centre d'Etudes Nucléaires de Saclay
  Saclay, France, November-December 1990
Visiting professor: Stellenbosch University, South Africa,
  September-October 1991
Visiting scholar: Joint Institute for Heavy Ion Research
  Oak Ridge, U.S.A., November 1991
Visiting professor: Louisiana State University
  Baton Rouge, U.S.A., November 1991
Visiting professor: Centre de Recherches Nucléaires de Strasbourg
  Strasbourg, France, November 1992 - February 1993
Visiting scholar: Joint Institute for Heavy Ion Research
  Oak Ridge, U.S.A., July 1993
Visiting professor: Stellenbosch University, South Africa,
  August-September 1993
Visiting professor: Centre de Recherches Nucléaires de Strasbourg
  Strasbourg, France, October 1993 - December 1993
Visiting professor: Joint Institute for Heavy Ion Research
  Oak Ridge, U.S.A., October 1994 - December 1994
Visiting scholar: Joint Institute of Heavy Ion Research
  Oak Ridge, U.S.A., July 1995
Visiting scholar: Institute for Nuclear Theory
  Seattle, U.S.A., October - December 1995
Visiting professor: Centre de Recherches Nucléaires de Strasbourg
  Strasbourg, France, January 1996
Visiting scholar: Joint Institute of Heavy Ion Research
  Oak Ridge, U.S.A., August 1996
Visiting professor: Centre de Recherches Nucléaires de Strasbourg
  Strasbourg, France, October - December 1996
Visiting professor: University of Tennessee and Oak Ridge National Laboratory
  Oak Ridge, U.S.A., January 1997 - January 1998
Visiting professor: Institut de Recherches Subatomiques de Strasbourg
  Strasbourg, France, July 1998
Visiting professor: Institut de Recherches Subatomiques de Strasbourg
  Strasbourg, France, June - July 1999
Visiting professor: Institut de Recherches Subatomiques de Strasbourg
  Strasbourg, France, January - July 2000

Visiting professor: Joint Institute for Heavy Ion Research
  Oak Ridge, U.S.A., August - September 2000
Visiting scholar: Institute for Nuclear Theory
  Seattle, U.S.A., October - December 2000
Visiting professor: Institut de Recherches Subatomiques de Strasbourg
  Strasbourg, France, June - July 2002
Visiting professor: University of Tennessee and Oak Ridge National Laboratory
  Oak Ridge, U.S.A., October 2003 - January 2005
Visiting professor: Université Louis Pasteur
  Strasbourg, France, 14 June - 13 July, 2005
Visiting professor: University of Tennessee and Oak Ridge National Laboratory
  Oak Ridge, U.S.A., July 2006




5. Professional Societies & Activities:



Member: Polish Physical Society
Member: American Physical Society, Fellow 15 Nov. 1998
Co-organizer: ECT* International Workshop on "Structure of Nuclei
  far from $\beta$-Stability", Trento, May 20-31, 1996
Head: Nuclear Structure Theory Division, Institute of Theoretical Physics,
  University of Warsaw, March 1997 - present
Co-organizer: INT Theory Program "Nuclear structure for the 21st century"
  Seattle, October 1 - December 10, 2000
Associate Editor: Nuclear Physics A, March 2000 - present
Scientific Secretary and International Conference "High Spin Physics 2001"
Editor of Proceedings: Warsaw, February 6 - 10, 2001
Member: Board of Directors of the European Centre for Theoretical
  Studies in Nuclear Physics and Related Areas (ECT*),
  Trento, Italy, June 2001 - June 2004
Member: National Advisory Committee of the Institute for Nuclear
  Theory at the University of Washington, 2002 - 2004,
  Chairman 2003 - 2004
Member: National Science Foundation panel to evaluate 2001 proposals
  in nuclear theory, January 2002
Co-ordinator: ECT* Doctoral Training Programme 2003,
  Trento, Italy, June - September 2003
Co-organizer: INT workshop "Towards a Universal Density Functional for the Nucleus",
  Seattle, September 26-30, 2005
Member: RIA Theory Group Executive Committee, 2004 - 2005
Member: Editorial Board of Physical Review C, 2006 - 2008
Co-organizer: First FIDIPRO-JSPS Workshop on Energy Density Functionals in Nuclei
  Jyväskylä, Finland, October 25-27, 2007

Member: Editorial Board of Journal of Physics G, 2008 - 2010
Organizer: FIDIPRO-UNEDF Collaboration Meeting on Nuclear
  Energy-Density-Functional Methods
  Jyväskylä, Finland, October 9-10, 2008




6. Awards & Honors:



Award: Rector of the Warsaw University, 19 Nov. 1999
Professorial Grant: Foundation for Polish Science (FNP), 14 June 2003




7. M.Sc. and Ph.D. Supervision:

Krzysztof Burzynski, M.Sc. 1991: Description of configuration mixing in many-body
  systems within the generator coordinate method
Elzbieta Perlinska, M.Sc. 1994: Description of nuclear mean fields
  at high angular momenta
Krzysztof Burzynski, Ph.D. 1996: Self-consistent description of proton impurities
  in nuclear matter of neutron stars
Jolanta Karny, M.Sc. 1999: Rotational bands in superdeformed nuclei
  in the rare-earth region
Elzbieta Perlinska, Ph.D. 2001: Self-consistent description of proton-neutron
  correlations in atomic nuclei
Rainald Kirchner, Ph.D. 2002: Paricle-number conserving mean-field description
  of drip-line nuclei
Przemys\law Olbratowski, Ph.D. 2004: Chiral and magnetic rotation in atomic nuclei
  studied within self-consistent mean-field method




8. Publications:

Until October 2008, my list of publications contained the following numbers of papers:

Papers published in periodicals 155  
Papers submitted for publication in periodicals and papers in press 6  
Popularized papers for general public 4  
Papers published as preprints and e-prints 5  
Conference invited talks 91  
Conference communications 76  
Total 312$^a$
 

$^a$Excluding conference invited talks and communications that have been published in periodicals.




9. Citations:

According to Web of Science, until October 2008 my papers have been cited 4700 times, with the h-index of 38. Ten most cited papers are as follows:

    No. of citations
1.
J. Dobaczewski, H. Flocard, J. Treiner: Hartree-Fock-Bogolyubov description of nuclei near the neutron-drip line, Nucl. Phys. A422 (1984) 103.
389
     
2.
J. Dobaczewski, W. Nazarewicz, T.R. Werner, J.F. Berger, C.R. Chinn, J. Dechargé: Mean-field description of ground-state properties of drip-line nuclei: Pairing and continuum effects, Phys. Rev. C53 (1996) 2809.
279
     
3.
J. Dobaczewski, I. Hamamoto, W. Nazarewicz, J.A. Sheikh: Nuclear shell structure at particle drip lines, Phys. Rev. Lett. 72 (1994) 981.
222
     
4.
S. Cwiok, J. Dobaczewski, P.-H. Heenen, P. Magierski, W. Nazarewicz: Shell Structure of the Superheavy Elements, Nucl. Phys. A611 (1997) 211.
184
     
5.
P.-G. Reinhard, D.J. Dean, W. Nazarewicz, J. Dobaczewski, J.A. Maruhn, M.R. Strayer: Shape coexistence and the effective nucleon-nucleon interaction, Phys. Rev. C60 (1999) 014316.
113
     
6.
D. Rudolph, C. Baktash, M.J. Brinkman, E. Caurier, D.J.Dean, M. Devlin, J. Dobaczewski, P.-H. Heenen, H.-Q. Jin, D.R. LaFosse, W. Nazarewicz, F. Nowacki, A. Poves, L.L. Riedinger, D.G. Sarantites, W. Satu\la, C.-H. Yu: Rotational bands in the doubly magic nucleus $^{56}$Ni, Phys. Rev. Lett. 82 (1999) 3763.
100
     
7.
B. Gall, P. Bonche, J. Dobaczewski, H. Flocard, P.-H. Heenen: Superdeformed rotational bands in the mercury region; a cranked Skyrme-Hartree-Fock-Bogoliubov study, Z. Phys. A348 (1994) 183.
95
     
8.
D. Rudolph, C. Baktash, J. Dobaczewski, W. Nazarewicz, W. Satu\la, M.J. Brinkman, M. Devlin, H.-Q. Jin, D.R. LaFosse, L.L. Riedinger, D.G. Sarantites, C.-H. Yu: Prompt proton decay of a well-deformed rotational band in $^{58}$Cu, Phys. Rev. Lett. 80 (1998) 3018.
94
     
9.
B. Chen, J. Dobaczewski, K.-L. Kratz, K. Langanke, B. Pfeiffer, F.-K. Thielemann, P. Vogel: Influence of shell-quenching far from stability on the astrophysical r-process, Phys. Lett. B355 (1995) 37.
94
     
10.
P. Bonche, J. Dobaczewski, H. Flocard, P.-H. Heenen, J. Meyer: Analysis of the Generator Coordinate Method in a study of shape isomerism in ${^{194}}$Hg, Nucl. Phys. A510 (1990) 466.
92
     




10. Scientific works:

In my diploma thesis, which I have completed in 1974 under the direction of S. G. Rohozinski, I investigated properties of the collective quadrupole states of nuclei which are soft against the triaxial $\gamma$ deformation. Afterwards I studied dynamics of the nuclear quadrupole motion in terms of the generalized Bohr Hamiltonian with the inertial functions and the potential determined microscopically. In 1979 I have presented my Ph.D. thesis on a self-consistent method of determination of the inertial functions within the adiabatic time-dependent Hartree-Fock-Bogolyubov method.

Since 1979 I have been working on the boson expansion methods for fermion systems. I was able to derive a general classification of the available expansions in terms of the structure of their underlying Lie algebras.

During my stay in Orsay, I collaborated with H. Flocard on an improvement of the Skyrme interaction aiming at the simultaneous correct description of the mean-field and pairing properties of nuclei. We applied the improved force in a study of nuclei near the neutron-drip line within the Hartree-Fock-Bogolyubov method. We constructed and analyzed the solutions of pairing problem in the configuration space.

In collaboration with S. E. Koonin I worked at the California Institute of Technology on applications of the Monte-Carlo method to determine exact ground-state energies of many-fermion systems for a given two-body interaction. We used the functional integration methods and the real coherent states which we have constructed to determine the imaginary-time evolution of the system. At the same time I worked on the description of the zero-point motion of nuclear surface and its influence on the nuclear radii. Such an analysis allowed to explain the discrepancy between the mean-field results and the experimental data on radii of deformed nuclei.

In years 1983-1987 I worked in Warsaw on the self-consistent determination of structure of collective particle and quasiparticle pairs. Together with Dr J. Skalski, we tried in this way to derive the boson models of quadrupole excitations from the Hartree-Fock theory with an effective two-body interaction.

I continued my interest in self-consistent methods during my stay in Saclay, where I worked together with P. Bonche on the spontaneous left-right symmetry breaking under fast rotation. We also analyzed the charge densities of nuclei around ${^{208}}$Pb, trying to pin-point the effects of correlations in nuclear systems, and determined the shape-isomeric states in the mercury isotopes within the Generator Coordinate Method.

At the same time, I came back to the boson expansion problems and derived a new method of obtaining the boson-fermion mapping through a fermion expansion of boson operators. In a schematic single-$j$ shell model I also analyzed the structure of quadrupole collective excitations and showed that they can be fairly well described by single-particle coherent excitations of a spherical core.

Since many years I have been collaborating with physicists from Orsay, Saclay, Brussels, Lyon and Livermore working on a self-consistent description of superdeformed states in nuclei. In particular, we were interested in studying their decay modes, pairing properties, and octupole correlations.

My collaboration with the groups in Stellenbosch and Rez was concentrated on properties and applications of boson expansion in nuclear physics.

In collaboration with P. Haensel, I have been studying properties of neutron-star crust matter using self-consistent mean-field methods. In particular, we were interested in deriving the equation of state of the stellar medium at densities above the nuclear density. We also analyzed the problem of localization of protons diluted in neutron gas.

My collaboration with J. Dudek aims at a self-consistent description of nuclear rotation and exotic shapes with a particular emphasis on properties of tetrahedral and octahedral minima.

At present, my scientific activity is focused on deriving energy-density-functionals that would precisely describe nuclear spectroscopic data. This project is realized within the FIDIPRO project in Jyväskylä and in collaboration with W. Nazarewicz and the group in Oak Ridge. In particular, we study properties of exotic nuclei far from the beta stability as well as the shell structure and pairing correlations in these nuclei.




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