Hrvoje Petek

Hrvoje Petek (born January 13, 1958) is a Croatian-born American physicist and the Richard King Mellon Professor of Physics and Astronomy,[1] at the University of Pittsburgh, where he is also a professor of chemistry.[2]

Hrvoje Petek
Born(1958-01-13)January 13, 1958
Zagreb, Croatia
NationalityUnited States, Croatia
Alma materMassachusetts Institute of Technology (1980, B.S., Chemistry)
University of California, Berkeley (1985, Ph.D., Chemistry)
Known forUltrafast laser spectroscopy,
Ultrafast microscopy,
Plasmonics,
Two-photon photoelectron spectroscopy
Scientific career
FieldsExperimental physics
InstitutionsInstitute for Molecular Science
Hitachi Ltd.
University of Pittsburgh

Education

Petek received his B.S. degree in chemistry from Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1980.[3] Subsequently, he obtained his Ph.D. degree in chemistry from the University of California, Berkeley in 1985.[4]

Research and career

Petek has developed coherent photoelectron spectroscopy[5][6] and microscopy[7] as methods for studying the dephasing and spatial propagation of polarization fields in solid state materials and nanostructure. He is developing methods for multidimensional multiphoton-photoemission spectroscopy.[8] Together with Jin Zhao, Ken Jordan and Ken Onda, Petek also discovered wet electron states, where electrons are partially solvated by water and other protic solvents at molecule vacuum interfaces.[9] Together with Min Feng and Jin Zhao, Petek discovered atom-like superatom states of C60, and similar hollow molecules.[10] Petek’s research with Shijing Tan has involved studies of metal plasmon excitations with semiconductor substrates, where the charge injection from highly optically active plasmonic modes into semiconductor substrates[11] could be used for solar energy harvesting.

Petek is Editor-in-Chief of Progress in Surface Science[12] and has organized conferences in his research field, such as the 11th International Symposium of Ultrafast Surface Dynamics, to be held in Qiandao Lake, China.[13] Petek has been (2015-2019) a member of the National Research and Development Agency Committee for the National Institute for Materials Science, and is currently a senior scientific advisor to the Japanese Institute for Molecular Science.[14]

Awards and honors
  • 2019 Ahmed Zewail Award in Ultrafast Science and Technology[15]
  • 2018 American Association for the Advancement of Science Fellows[16]
  • 2005 Chancellor’s Distinguished Research Award,University of Pittsburgh[17]
  • 2002 Fellow, American Physical Society[18]
  • 2000 Alexander von Humboldt Research Award[19]
  • 1996–1999, 2003–2006 NEDO Joint International Research Grant Awardee[20]

References
  1. "Homepage department of physics & astronomy at University of Pittsburgh".
  2. "Hrvoje Petek | Department of Chemistry | University of Pittsburgh".
  3. "Laboratory of Ultrafast Dynamics".
  4. "Laboratory of Ultrafast Dynamics".
  5. Ogawa, S.; Nagano, H.; Petek, H.; Heberle, A.P. (17 Feb 1997). "Optical Dephasing in Cu(111) Measured by Interferometric Two-Photon Time-Resolved Photoemission". Phys. Rev. Lett. 78 (7): 1339–1342. Bibcode:1997PhRvL..78.1339O. doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.78.1339.
  6. Petek, H.; Ogawa, S. (30 Dec 1997). "Femtosecond time-resolved two-photon photoemission studies of electron dynamics in metals". Progress in Surface Science. 56 (4): 239–310. Bibcode:1997PrSS...56..239P. doi:10.1016/S0079-6816(98)00002-1.
  7. Dąbrowski, Maciej; Dai, Yanan; Petek, Hrvoje (30 August 2017). "Ultrafast Microscopy: Imaging Light with Photoelectrons on the Nano–Femto Scale". J. Phys. Chem. Lett. 8 (18): 4446–4455. doi:10.1021/acs.jpclett.7b00904.
  8. Reutzel, Marcel; Li, Andi; Petek, Hrvoje (8 March 2019). "Coherent Two-Dimensional Multiphoton Photoelectron Spectroscopy of Metal Surfaces". Phys. Rev. X. 9 (1): 011044. arXiv:1807.09164. Bibcode:2019PhRvX...9a1044R. doi:10.1103/PhysRevX.9.011044.
  9. Onda, Ken; Li, Bin; Zhao, Jin; Jordan, Kenneth D.; Yang, Jinglong; Petek, Hrvoje (20 May 2005). "Wet Electrons at the H2O/TiO2(110) Surface". Science. 308 (5725): 1154–1158. Bibcode:2005Sci...308.1154O. doi:10.1126/science.1109366. PMID 15905397.
  10. Feng, Min; Zhao, Jin; Petek, Hrvoje (18 April 2008). "Atomlike, hollow-core-bound molecular orbitals of C60". Science. 320 (5874): 359–362. Bibcode:2008Sci...320..359F. doi:10.1126/science.1155866. PMID 18420931.
  11. Tan, Shijing; Argondizzo, Adam; Ren, Jindong; Liu, Liming; Zhao, Jin; Petek, Hrvoje (30 November 2017). "Plasmonic coupling at a metal/semiconductor interface". Nature Photonics. 11 (12): 806–812. Bibcode:2017NaPho..11..806T. doi:10.1038/s41566-017-0049-4.
  12. "The Editor in Chief of Progress in Surface Science". Progress in Surface Science. Retrieved 2019-05-16.
  13. "Ultrafast Surface Dynamics 11". usd11.github.io. Retrieved 2019-09-23.
  14. "Hrvoje Petek, Senior Scientific Advisor". Institute for Molecular Science. Japan. Retrieved 17 May 2019.
  15. "ACS 2019 national award winners". ACS. Retrieved 2018-09-15.
  16. "Two Pitt Professors Named American Association for the Advancement of Science Fellows". University of Pittsburgh. Retrieved 2016-12-06.
  17. "Chancellor's Distinguished Research Award". University of Pittsburgh. Retrieved 2005-03-28.
  18. "APS Fellow Archive". www.aps.org. Retrieved 2019-09-23.
  19. "Hrvoje Petek Receives Medal Following Alexander von Humboldt Lecture". Pittsburgh Quantum Institute. Retrieved 2019-09-23.
  20. "New Energy and Industrial Technology Development Organization". NEDO. Retrieved 2019-05-06.
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