Hrvoje Buljan

Position:

  • Professor of Physics at the Faculty of Science University of Zagreb (Department of Physics)

Fields of interest:

  • Optics and photonics: graphene nanophotonics, nonlinear optics and solitons
  • Ultracold atomic gases: interacting quantum systems including 1D Bose gases

Awards:

  • Annual Croatian State Award for Science in 2010

Five selected publications:

  • Dubček, C.J. Kennedy, L. Lu, W. Ketterle, M. Soljačić, and H. Buljan, Weyl Points in Three-Dimensional Optical Lattices: Synthetic Magnetic Monopoles in Momentum Space, Phys. Rev. Lett. 114, 225301 (2015).
  • Pezer and H. Buljan, Momentum distribution dynamics of a Tonks-Girardeau gas: Bragg reflections of a quantum many-body wave packet, Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 240403 (2007).
  • Buljan, O. Cohen, J.W. Fleischer, T. Schwartz, M. Segev, Z.H. Musslimani, N.K. Efremidis, and D.N. Christodoulides, Random-phase solitons in nonlinear periodic lattices, Phys. Rev. Lett. 92, 223901 (2004).
  • Cohen, G. Bartal, H. Buljan, T. Carmon, J.W. Fleischer, M. Segev, and D.N. Christodoulides, Observation of random-phase lattice solitons, Nature (London) 433, 500 (2005).
  • Jablan, H. Buljan, and M. Soljačić, Plasmonics in graphene at infra-red frequencies, Phys. Rev. B 80, 245435 (2009).

The most important grants (as PI):

  • 2015- Leader of the Scientific Center of Excellence for Quantum and Complex Systems – QuantiX
  • 2013-2015 Principal investigator of a project Pseudomagnetic forces and fields for atoms and photons funded by the Unity through Knowledge Fund (UKF, ukf.hr)
  • 2008-2010 Principal investigator of a Croatian-Israeli bilateral project (in collaboration with Prof Dr. Mordechai Segev, Technion, Israel Institute of Technology) funded by the Ministry of Science in Croatia (MZOS) and Ministry of Science of the State of Israel
  • 2007-2013 Principal investigator of a project Nonlinear phenomena and wave dynamics in photonic systems funded by MZOS

Bio:

Hrvoje Buljan received a MSc degree in physics from the University of Zagreb in 1997 and defended his PhD thesis at the same university in 2002 (supervisor Vladimir Paar). In the period from 2002-2004 he was a postdoctoral fellow at the Technion, Israel Institute of Technology in the group of Moti Segev. His research at the time was focused on nonlinear optical phenomena. In particular, the focus was on propagation of partially coherent optical waves in nonlinear photonic structures, and nonlinear phenomena such as incoherent solitons and modulation instability in these systems. After the postdoc period he moved back to the University of Zagreb as an Assistant Professor and formed his group with activities also in ultracold atomic gases. The research in his group focused on one-dimensional time-dependent quantum many-body systems, which were in the last decade experimentally realized in ultracold atomic gases. In recent years his research topics include also plasmons in graphene. HB authored and co-authored more than 60 publications in peer reviewed journals with ~1900 citations.
HB was promoted to the rank of Associate Professor of Physics at the University of Zagreb in 2009, and to the rank of Full Professor in 2013. He received the Annual Croatian State Award for Science in 2010. He mentored three PhD theses and more than 30 diploma theses. He teaches Classical Electrodynamics (3rd year undergraduates), Nonlinear Optics, and Nonlinear Continua (post-graduate courses).

 

  • Tel: +385 1 4605591
  • Location: Department of Physics, Faculty of Science, University of Zagreb
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