Curriculum Vitae
ALEKSANDER REBANE
Physics Department Phone: (406) 994 7831
Montana State University Fax: (406) 994 4452
Bozeman, Montana 59717 Email:
http://www.physics.montana.edu/faculty/rebane
PERSONAL Birth Date: August 19, 1958
Home address: 1407 S. Montana Ave., Bozeman, MT 59715; Phone: (406) 585 5491
Married, two children, b. 1983, 1986
Languages: English, German, Estonian, Russian
Citizen of Estonia, Permanent Resident of U.S.A.
EDUCATION
1981 Diploma Cum Laude in Physics, Tartu University, Estonia
1985 Ph.D. in Physics, Institute of Physics of the Estonian Academy of Sciences
1995 Venia Legendi in Physical Chemistry at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zürich (ETHZ)
ACADEMIC POSITIONS
2003 to date Professor of Physics, Montana State University
1996 to 2003 Associate Professor of Physics, Montana State University
1990 - 1996 Oberassistent at the Laboratory for Physical Chemistry, ETH Zürich
1990 Visiting scientist at the University of Southern California, Los Angeles
1987, 1988 Visiting scientist at the University of Bayreuth, Germany
1986 - 1990 Senior Research Fellow at the Institute of Physics, Tartu, Estonia
1981 - 1985 Research Associate at the Institute of Physics, Tartu, Estonia
TEACHING RECORD
2003, 2004, 2005 Graduate Electromagnetic Theory (Phys 509)
2000, 2002, 2004 Graduate/Senior Physics Laboratory (Phys 516/461)
1999, 2001, 2003 Graduate Nonlinear Optics and Laser Spectroscopy (Phys 531)
1997, 1998 Undergraduate Quantum Mechanics (Phys 411/412)
PREVIOUS TEACHING RECORD
At ETHZ 1991 - 1996
Physical Chemistry
Thermodynamics
Quantum Mechanics
Laser Spectroscopy
Advisor of 10 Ph.D. students
AWARDS
1993 - International Commission for Optics Prize
1996 - Leopold Ruzicka Prize, ETHZ
1999 - Charles and Nora Wiley Award, MSU
2003 - Cox Award, MSU
PROFESSIONAL SOCIETY MEMBERSHIP
American Physical Society, Optical Society of America, SPIE, European Physical Society
Estonian Physical Society, German Physical Society, Society of Porphyrins and Phthalocyanines