Prof. V. Sechovsky, RNDr., DSc.

Office 25, First floor, Ke Karlovu 5 Tel. (02) 2191 1367 Fax (02) 2191 1351, (02) 2491 1061 E-mail sech@mag.mff.cuni.cz Homepage http://195.113.32.128

Curriculum Vitae

• born: 15. 07. 1946
• 1970 graduated at Faculty of Mathematics and Physics, Charles University, Prague
• 1975 Ph.D. (CSc.) at Charles University Prague
• 1975-1988 Junior Scientist, Department of Metal Physics, Charles University, Prague
• 1988-1991 Senior Scientist
• 1991 - Principal Researcher
• 1992 - Doctor of Science (DrSc.) at the Charles University
• 1992 - Head of the Group of Magnetism of the Department of Metal Physics
• 1993 - habilitation - Ass. Professor (Doc.) at the Charles University
• 1997 - Professor (Prof.) at the Charles University
• 1999 - Department of Electronic Structures

Professional interests - expertise

• electronic properties of strongly correlated electron systems
• magnetism of f- and d-electron materials
• bulk experimental methods, low-temperature and high-field experiments, neutron scattering, mSR spectroscopy

Scientific societies and editorial boards

• since 1970 - member of the Union of Czechoslovak Physicists and Mathematicians
• since 1991 - chairman of the Group of Magnetism of the Physical Scientific Section
• since 1989 - member of the American Physical Society
• since 1988 - member of the editorial board of Physica B (North Holland)
• since 1995 - member of the editorial board of Journal of Alloys and Compounds (Elsevier)
• since 1996 - member of the C9 (Magnetism) Commission of IUPAP
• since 1999 - secretary of the C9 (Magnetism) Commission of IUPAP

Conference organisation:

• chairman of the 20iemes Journees des Actinides in Prague 1990
• chairman of the International Colloquia on f-electron Systems in Prague 1992, 1994, 1996, 1998

International advisory boards:

• Actinides'93 Santa Fe
• SCES'94 Amsterdam
• ICM'94 Warsaw
• SCES'96 Zurich
• Actinides'97 Baden-Baden
• SCES’98 Paris
• SCES’99 Nagano
• Actinides'2001, Hayama

Scientific output

• Monographs
  1. V. Sechovsky and L. Havela: Intermetallic Compounds of Actinides in: the Handbook on Ferromagnetic Materials, Elsevier Science Publishers, Amsterdam 1988, Vol. 4, pp.
  2. V.Sechovsky and L. Havela: Magnetism in ternary intermetallic compounds of uranium, in: Handbook on Magnetic Materials, ed. K.H.J. Buschow, (Amsterdam, North Holland, 1998), Vol. 11., pp. 1-289
  3. V. Sechovsky and L. Havela: "Magnetic Anisotropy and Transport Properties of Actinide Intermetallics" in: f-Hybridization Effects on Electronic Structure, Plenum Publishing Corporation, New York (in press)
• 25 invited talks at international conferences (ICAREA, HFM, ICM, SCES, MMM, Intermag, EPS CMD, EMMA, LT, ICFE, JdA) and workshops
• > 250 papers in refereed journals

10 selected publications in the last five years

1. V. Sechovsky and L. Havela Anisotropic hybridization and magnetism in actinide intermetallics Physica Scripta T45 (1992) 99-102
2. V. Sechovsky, L. Havela, F.R. de Boer, H. Fujii, T. Fujita Magnetoresistance in UTX Compounds, in: Transport and Thermal Properties of f-Electron Systems, G. Oomi, H. Fujii and T. Fujita, eds., Plenum Press 1993, p. 113-122
3. V. Sechovsky, L. Havela, F.R. de Boer, E. Bruck, Y. Uwatoko and G. Oomi Effect of pressure on magnetic transitions in UNiGa Physica B 186-188 (1993) 697-699
4. V. Sechovsky, L. Havela, H. Nakotte, K. Prokes;, F.R. de Boer and E. Bruck GMR effects in intermetallic compounds J.Appl.Phys. 76 (1994) 6913-6918
5. V. Sechovsky, L. Havela, H. Nakotte, F.R. de Boer and E. Bruck Anisotropy of magnetism in actinide and lanthanide intermetallics J.Alloys and Comp. 207/208 (1994) 221-228
6. V. Sechovsky and L. Havela Heavy fermion behaviour in lanthanide and actinide materials J.Alloys and Compounds 225 (1995) 444-455
7. L. Havela, V. Sechovsky, K. Prokes;, H. Nakotte, H. Fujii and A. Lacerda Giant magnetoresistance effects in 5f-materials Physica B 223&224 (1996) 245-250
8. V. Sechovsky, L. Havela, H. Nakotte and E. Bruck Giant magnetoresistance in intermetallics IEEE Trans.Magn. 32 (1996) 4687-4691
9. A.V. Andreev, M.I. Bartashevich, T. Goto, K. Kamishima, L. Havela and V. Sechovsky Effects of external pressure on the 5f-band metamagnetism in UCoAl Phys Rev. B 55 (1997) 5847-5850
10. A.V. Andreev, L. Havela, V. Sechovsky, M.I. Bartashevich, R.V. Dremov and I.K. Kozlovskaya Ferromagnetism in the UCo1-xRuxAl quasiternary intermetallics Phil. Mag. B 75 (1997) 827-844