Roman Nowak

Short Bio:

Roman Nowak presently holds professorship at Aalto University, Helsinki Finland, where he runs the joined USA-Japanese-Finnish enterprise – the Nordic Hysitron Laboratory (NHL). NHL is the international scientific team active in physics and mechanics of nanomaterials, and from this angle contributes the design of unexplored nanostructures. The strength of NHL comes from its essential combination of the expertise in nanomechanical testing with Molecular Dynamics simulations and ab initio quantum calculations. This international team is lead in Japanese style since RN spent 13 years in Japan acting as Professor in Electrical & Computer Science at Nagoya Institute of Technology, and subsequently, in Advanced Mechanics at Hiroshima University. Prof. Nowak was active for many years in various fields that belong to Solid State Physics, Materials Science Nano-Science and Nanotechnology including Surface Engineering. His research bends towards nano-physics and advanced optoelectronics-oriented materials. Both the NHL’s efficiency and effectiveness are demonstrated by the recent Nature Nanotechnology publication that forms the bottom line of this presentation. The solution of the problem was only possible by virtue of the synergistic combination of expertise in atomistic calculations together with sophisticated nano-experimentation (in-situ electrical measurements during nanodeformation). Roman Nowak was working also in Max Planck Institute in Stuttgart and recognized scientific institutions in Japan including such as Kyoto University, Osaka, University, Osaka National Institute, Toyohashi University of Technology, Nagaoka University of Technology, to name only a few.