Efstratios Manousakis
Donald Robson Professor of Physics
and Distinguished Research Professor
Department of Physics
and Center for Materials Research and Technology
Florida State University
Professor, Condensed Matter Theory.
E-mail: stratos@cmmp.fsu.edu
Telephone: (850) 644-3713
Fax Number: (850) 644-8630
Room: 612 Keen Building, Physics Department.
Research Interests
Condensed Matter Theory; Many-Body Theory; Statistical Mechanics.
| Strongly Correlated Electrons |
| Superconductivity |
| Superfluidity |
| Phase Transitions |
| The Many-body Problem |
| Computational Physics |
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Biographical Information
Born in Ithaca, Greece, 1957.
Citizenship: U.S. and Greek.
Children: One Child: Jacob-AnthonyManousakis
Home Address: 2333 Tuscavilla Rd, Tallahassee, FL 32312
Home Phone Number: (850)668-0572.
Education
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1985 Ph. D., Physics , University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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1983 M. Sc., Physics , University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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1980 B. Sc., Physics University of Athens, Greece
Professional Experience
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1992-present, Professor, Florida State University
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1988-1992, Associate Professor, Florida State University
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1987-1988, Research Associate, SCRI, Florida State University
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1985-1987, Postdoctoral Research Associate, Massachusetts Institute
of Technology
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1982-1985, Research Assistant, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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1981-1982, Teaching Assistant, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Awards and Scholarships .
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Distinguished Research Professor of Physics , 2008, Florida
State University
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Donald Robson Professor of Physics , Named Professorship, 2004, Florida
State University
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Fellow of American Physical Society , American Physical Society, 2002
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PAI Award , for excelence in Teaching and Research, 1998, Florida
State University
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Developing Scholar Award (1990). Florida State University
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First Ross J. Martin Award(1985). University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
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Member of Sigma Xi.
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Scholarship from the University of Athens (1975-80) and from the ``GreekAtomic
Energy Commission" (1980-81).
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Second Panhellenic Mathematical Society Award(1975)
Research Funding
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My research is funded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration
(NASA).
Students who received Ph.D Degree under my supervision
M. Boninsengi, Ph.D, Graduated in October 1992. Thesis title:``Variational
and Green's function Monte Carlo study of lightly doped quantumantiferromagnets''.
Employment after graduation: Research Associate atthe University of
Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
Z. Liu, Ph.D, Graduated in December 1992. Thesis title: "Antiferromagnetism
and hole dynamics in the copper oxides''. Employment after graduation:Research
Associate at the Cornell Theory Center.
N. Schultka, Ph. D, Graduated in April 1995. Thesis title: "Numerical
investigations of scaling in superfluids'' Employment after graduation:Research
Associate at University of Aachen, Germany.
M. E. Pierce, Ph. D, Graduated in December 1998. Thesis title:``Path
Integral Monte Carlo Studies of Helium Adsorbed on Graphite".
Employment after graduation, Indiana University, School of Informatics.
K. Nho, Ph. D, Graduated in July 2001. Thesis title: "Path Integral
Monte Carlo of Hydrogen Adsorbed on Graphite". Employment after graduation:
Research Associate at University of Georgia.
Q. M. Doan, Ph. D, Graduated in February 2008. Thesis title
"Variational study of the nematic phase of the two-dimensional electron
gas in a magnetic field". Employment after graduation:
Quantitative Analyst, Bank of America.
S. Kar, Ph. D, Graduated in July 2010. Thesis title
"Role of Phonons, Doping and Domain Walls in Hole Propagation in Two-Dimensional Quantum Antiferromagnets". Employment after graduation:
University of North Florida. Visiting Assistant Professor.
Keola Wierschem, Ph. D, Graduated in July 2010. Thesis title
"Role of Defects in Possible Superfluidity of Spatially Ordered Helium"
Employment after graduation:
Post-doctoral Research Associate-National Technical University of Signapore.
Mailing address:
Department of Physics
612 Keen Building
Florida State University
Tallahassee, FL 32306
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