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prof. RNDr. Milan Žukovič, PhD.   SK

Email:
 milan.zukovic@upjs.sk
Homepage:
 ufv.science.upjs.sk/zukovic/
Faculty:
PF UPJŠ - Pavol Jozef Šafárik University in Košice, Faculty of Science
Department:
ÚFV - Institute of Physics
Office:
 SA0O42B
Phone:
 +421 55 234 2544
ORCID ID:
 0000-0001-6241-299X
Professor at the Institute of Physics. He inaugurated in the field of Physics and his research is oriented on theoretical study and computer modeling of complex systems with a focus on spin models in magnetism, especially on exotic magnetic and topological states in frustrated models. He is also interested in interdisciplinary applications of some statistical-physics models in other areas, such as geostatistics and finance. His teaching activities are closely related to his research and are focused on numerical methods, computational physics, phase transitions and critical phenomena, and economics. So far, he has supervised 5 doctoral students, who have completed their PhD studies.
Higher education and further qualification growth
Second degree of higher education:
Pavol Jozef Šafárik University in Košice, Faculty of Science, 1990, Teaching of mathematics and physics
Third degree of higher education:
Kyushu University, Graduate School of Engineering, Japan, 2000, Applied physics
Associate professor:
Pavol Jozef Šafárik University in Košice, Faculty of Science, 2010, Physics
Professor:
Pavol Jozef Šafárik University in Košice, Faculty of Science, 2020, Physics

Research /art/ teacher profile

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Overview of the responsibility for the delivery, development and quality assurance of the study programme or its part at the university in the current academic year
Study programme: Physics, teacher providing the course, study field: Physics, Master degree
Study programme: Physics, teacher providing the course, study field: Physics, PhD. degree
Study programme: Physics, Member of Study Programme Board, study field: Physics, Master degree
Study programme: Physics, Member of Study Programme Board, study field: Physics, PhD. degree
Study programme: A member of field commission of doctoral study (OK), study field: Theoretical physics, PhD. degree
Profile courses
ÚFV/POF1a/99 Computational physics I - Physics, Bachelor degree
ÚFV/FPK1/07 Phase transitions and critical phenomena - Physics, Master degree
ÚFV/POCF/13 Computational physics - Physics, PhD. degree
ÚFV/POF1a/99 Computational physics I - Applied informatics, Bachelor degree
Overview of the responsibility for the development and quality of the field of habilitation procedure and inaugural procedure in the current academic year
Name of the field of habilitation procedure and inaugural procedure: Physics, A member of the Board of the Field of Habilitation and Inauguration Proceeding (ROHIK), study field to which it is assigned: Physics
Selected publications

ADC Žukovič, M., Semjan, M., Magnetization process and magnetocaloric effect in geometrically frustrated Ising antiferromagnet and spin ice models on a ‘Star of David’ nanocluster, Journal of Magnetism and Magnetic Materials 451 (2018) 311. (IF2018=2.683, Q2 in Physics, Condensed Matter, 16 SCOPUS a WOS)

ADC M. Mohylna, J. Buša Jr., M. Žukovič, Formation and growth of skyrmion crystal phase in a frustrated Heisenberg antiferromagnet with Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya interaction, Journal of Magnetism and Magnetic Materials 527 (2021) 167755. (IF2021=2.993, Q2 in Physics, Condensed Matter, 1 SCOPUS a WOS)

ADC Mohylna, M., Žukovič, M., Magnetocaloric properties of frustrated tetrahedra-based spin nanoclusters, Physics Letters A 383 (2019) 2525. (IF2020=2.278, Q2 in Physics Multidisciplinary, 8 SCOPUS a WOS)

ADC Mohylna M., Albaraccin, F.A.G, Žukovič, M., Rosales, H.D., Spontaneous antiferromagnetic skyrmion/antiskyrmion lattice and spiral spin-liquid states in the frustrated triangular lattice, Physical Review B 106 (2022) 224406-1-224406-10. (IF2022=3.7, Q2 in Physics, Condensed Matter, 5 SCOPUS a WOS)

ADC Žukovič, M., Critical properties of the frustrated Ising model on a honeycomb lattice: A Monte Carlo study, Physics Letters A (2021) 127405. (IF2021=2.707, Q2 in Physics, Multidisciplinary, 9 SCOPUS a WOS)
Selected projects

VEGA 1/0695/23: Unconventional magnetic and topological phases and phase transitions in spin systems, 2023-2026. Leader.

VEGA 1/0531/19: Exotic phenomena in frustrated spin systems, 2019-2022. Leader.

VEGA 1/0331/15: Frustrated mixed-spin systems, 2015-2018. Leader.

APVV-20-0150: Perspective electron spin systems for future quantum technologies, 2021-2025. Participant.

APVV-18-0197: Relaxation processes in quantum magnetic systems, 2019-2023. Participant.
International mobilities and visits
Kyushu University, Graduate school of engineering, Department of applied quantum physics, Fukuoka, Japan, 1.4.1996-31.3.1997, Research stay, Japanese government scholarship (MOMBUSHO)
Kyushu University, Graduate school of engineering, Institute of environmental systems, Fukuoka, Japan, 1.4.2000-31.3.2001, Research stay, Postdoctoral fellowship of Kyushu University
Kyushu University, Graduate school of engineering, Department of applied quantum physics, Fukuoka, Japan, 1.9.2001-1.10.2002, Research stay, Fellowship of the Japanese society for the promotion of science (JSPS)
Technical University of Crete, Chania, Greece, 15.10.2006 – 31.12.2008, Research stay, Marie-Curie Transfer of Knowledge Fellowship (FP6, European Commission)
Federal University of Mato Grosso, Cuiaba, Brazil, Jun 2017 (3 weeks), Invited lecture stay (Delivering lectures for PhD students and researchers)
Technical University of Crete, Chania, Greece, Five 10-day stays in years 2010, 2014, 2016, 2018, 2020 and 2022, Research stay in the framework of bilateral agreement between Slovak and Hellenic republics
Organisational activities
Head of Department of theoretical physics and astrophysics - Institute of physics, 2019 - 2021
Member of editorial board - Frontiers in Mathematical and Statistical Physics (https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/physics/sections/mathematical-and-statistical-physics), 2013 - present

Additional information

Awards
  • co-author of the publication awarded with the prize of the director of the Istitute of Physics PF UPJŠ for the best scientific publication for 2022 (2nd place), 2023
  • co-author of the publication awarded with the prize of the director of the Istitute of Physics PF UPJŠ for the best scientific publication for the year 2021 (1st place), 2022
  • Istitute of Physics director's award PF UPJŠ for the best scientific publication in 2018 (2nd place), 2019 • Dean's award for scientific research activities of teachers and scientific employees of PF UPJŠ, 2014
  • Scholarship of the European Commission (Marie-Curie), Greece, 10/2006-9/2008
  • Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS) Scholarship, Japan, 9/2001-10/2002
  • Japanese Government Scholarship (Mombusho), Japan, 4/1996-3/2000.
Projects
National:
  • Unconventional magnetic and topological phases and phase transitions in spin systems, VEGA 1/0695/23, 01/2023-12/2026, PI
  • Exotic phenomena in frustrated spin systems, VEGA 1/0531/19, 01/2019 -12/2022, PI
  • Relaxation processes in quantum magnetic systems, APVV-18-0197, 07/2019-06/2023, member of the research team
  • Perspective electron spin systems for future quantum technologies, APVV-20-0150, 07/ 2021-06/2025, member of the research team
  • Exotic quantum states of low-dimensional spin and electron systems, APVV-16-0186, 01/07/2017-30/06/2021, member of the research team
  • Simulation and dynamic visualization of geospatial processes, VEGA 1 /0474/16, 01/2016-12/2018, member of the research team
  • Frustrated systems with mixed spins, VEGA 1/0331/15, 01/2015-12/2018, PI
  • Magnetocaloric phenomenon in quantum and nanoscopic systems, APVV -14-0073, 07/2015-06/2019, member of the research team
  • Unconventional quantum states in nanoscopic magnetic systems, APVV-0132-11, 07/2012-12/2015, member of the research team
  • Frustrated spin systems, VEGA 1/ 0234/12, 01/2010-12/2014, member of the research team
  • Study of quantum and cooperative phenomena in geometrically frustrated spin models, VEGA 1/0431/10, 2010-2011, member of the research team
  • Theoretical study of quantum and classical spin systems VEGA 1/0128/08, 2008-2010, member of the research team
Foreign:
  • Interoperability and Mapping (INTAMAP) EC FP6, The multi-partner European Specific Targeted Research Project (STREP) IST Call 5: IST-2005-2.5.12, 10 /2008-7/2009, member of the research team
  • Development of Spartan Spatial Random Field Models for Geostatistical Applications (SPATSTAT) EC FP6, Marie-Curie TOK project MTKD–CT-2004-014135, 10/2006-9/2008 member of the research team (a project awarded by the European Commission as a success story of Marie Curie Actions and highlighted in the special issue "Marie Curie Actions: Inspiring Researchers", European Commission, Luxembourg: Publications Office of the European Union, 2010 ISBN: 978-92-79-14328-1. )
  • Role of higher-order exchange and effect of doping in frustrated magnetic systems Japan Society for the Promotion of Science Grant-in-Aid JSPS/FF1/141 (ID No. P01029), 9/2001-10/2002, PI.
International collaboration
  • Technical University of Crete, Chania, Greece
  • National University of La Plata, La Plata, Argentina
  • University of Lodz, Lodz, Poland
Other
Invited lectures at foreign universities:
  • Role of higher-order terms in XY model, University of Lodz, Lodz, Poland, January 11, 2022
  • Spin models for efficient spatial prediction of massive datasets, Federal University of Mato Grosso, Cuiaba, Brazil, 23 June 2017
  • XY model with higher-order exchange, Federal University of Mato Grosso, Cuiaba, Brazil, June 21, 2017
  • Thermodynamic properties of small spin clusters with geometrical frustration, National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, Lviv, Ukraine, February 7, 2017
  • Entropy and magnetocaloric properties of geometrically frustrated Ising nanoclusters, University of Lodz, Lodz, Poland, October 26, 2016
  • Geometrically frustrated spin systems, University of Lodz, Poland, July 5, 2011
  • Critical behavior of frustrated 3D plane rotator with bilinear- biquadratic Hamiltonian, Tohoku University, Sendai, Japan, June 18, 2002
Invited lectures at conferences/workshops:
  • Statistical-physical models in geostatistics, 21st conference of Czech and Slovak physicists, FMFI UK in Bratislava, 4-7 September 2023.
  • Spin models for efficient prediction of massive spatial data, international conference in statistical physics SigmaPhi 2023, Chania, Greece, 10-14. July 2023.
  • Effective methods of spatial data prediction based on statistical-physical models, 1st summer school of condensed matter physics, Liptovský Ján, 4-9. September 2022.
  • Modified spin models for efficient spatial prediction, scientific workshop SPARTA 1591, Chania, Greece, September 17, 2015.
  • Statistical physics models applied in geoinformatics, UPJŠ Doctoral Spring School, Liptovský Ján, April 16, 2015.

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