Keynote Speakers
Davor Pavuna, Ph.D., Professor
“Entrepreneurs in the Age of Artificial Intelligence”
Diploma work on magnetotransport in soft amorphous ferromagnets (Zagreb, Croatia, 1977); Ph.D. Thesis on electronic properties of amorphous metals (1982) under Prof. J.S. Dugdale, at that time, the President of the Science Research Council of Great Britain. Following 3 years of research in the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS) as an Associate Lecturer at the University of Grenoble (France), where he has initiated successful research program on quasicrystals. Pavuna has joined EPFL in 1986. His most cited work (1988) is on remarkable electrical properties of Ag-cuprate mixtures; such compounds are now used in advanced superconducting technology. Since 1996, in an NSF(Bern)-supported project at the Synchrotron in Wisconsin, he and coworkers succeded in demonstrated direct photoemission spectroscopy on strained cuprate films with enhanced Tc ; numerous groups are now following this novel approach. His publications include more than 100 research papers, 18 reviews, 12 edited professional books, widely used textbook on superconductivity (with M. Cyrot, Grenoble). Pavuna has participated in teaching elementary physics, basic and advances courses on quantum fluids and properties of disordered solids. Since 2005 Pavuna is Professor of physics, and teaches elementary physics to chemistry students. He has co-organized several international conferences and summer schools. In addition to dozens of lectures in leading institutions worldwide and invited conference talks, he collaborated and advised companies in England, France, Switzerland and USA. Academic Degrees and Habilitations: 1992: Habilitation in Condensed Matter Physics and Chemistry, Paris, France, 1982: Ph.D. in Condensed Matter Physics, Head Examiner: Jan Evetts (Cambridge), England, 1977: Dipl. Ing. in Experimental Physics, Faculty of Science, The University of Zagreb, Croatia. Short Visiting Appointments: March 1996 & 1997: Visiting Professor, Ecole de Physique et Chimie, ESPCI-LPS, Paris, France; July 1995: Visiting Fellow, Clarendon Laboratory, Christchurch College, Oxford, England; January 1993,’94: Adjunct Professor in Physics Dept., The University of Miami, Coral Gables, USA; September 1987, ’89, ’93: Associate Professor, The University of Grenoble and CNRS, Grenoble, France; April 1983: Visiting Professor, Universidad Autonoma de Barcelona, Belaterra, Spain; Jan. – Febr.1983: The British Council Lecturer in India: Tata and Bhaba Institutes, Bombay; Hyderabad University, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore; The Indian Institute of Technology and National Physics Laboratory, New Delhi; July-August, 1982: The Royal Society Visiting Fellow – The Australian National University, Canberra & The Commonwealth Research Organization (CSRIO) and The University of The New South Wales, Sydney.