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