Professor Hrvoje Petek
Research: Condensed Matter Physics
Education: Ph.D. University of California Berkeley, 1985 - Chemistry
B.S. Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1980 - Chemistry
Contact: petek@pitt.edu
412-624-3599 (office)
412-624-9163 (fax)
Postdoctoral Fellow, Advisor: Prof. Keitaro Yoshihara
Research Associate, Institute for Molecular Science
Senior Research Scientist and Group Leader, Hitachi Advanced Research Laboratory
Professor of Physics, University of Pittsburgh
Professor of Chemistry, University of Pittsburgh
Richard King Mellon Chair of Physics and Astronomy
Co-Director, Petersen Institute for NanoScience and Engineering
Editor-in-Chief, Progress in Surface Science
Member, National Research and Development Agency Advisory Committee for NIMS, Japan
Senior Scientific Advisor to the Director General of the Institute for Molecular Science, Japan
Steering Committee Chair, IQ Initiative
Advisory Committee member of the Advanced Science Research Center of the Japan
Atomic Energy Agency
Appointments:
1985-1987
1987-1993
1993-2000
2000-2014
2002-present
2014-present
Leadership Roles:
2005-2012
2007-present
2015-2019
2017-2020
2022-present
2023-present
Awards and Honors:
National Science Foundation Predoctoral Fellow, 1980-1984
National Science Foundation Postdoctoral Fellow, 1985-1987
Yamada Science Foundation Postdoctoral Fellow, 1985
NEDO Joint International Research Grant Awardee, 1996-1999, 2003-2006
Alexander von Humboldt Research Award, 2000
Fellow, American Physical Society, 2003
Chancellor's Distinguished Research Award, University of Pittsburgh, 2005
Morino Award, Kyoto University, Japan, 2014
AAAS Fellow, 2016
Ahmed Zewail Award in Ultrafast Science and Technology, 2019
Distinguished Scientist of the Chinese Academy of Science, President's International Fellowship Initiative, 2022-2023
Progress in Surface Science:
Progress in Surface Science is a review journal on current research in surface science broadly defined. We welcome nominations and proposals for future review articles. All inquiries should be sent to the Editor-in-Chief, Hrvoje Petek at