Per Arne Rikvold
Researcher
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Porous Media Laboratory SFF
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Email
p.a.rikvold@fys.uio.no
Phone
+47-22856485
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Visiting address
Sem Sælands vei 24
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0316 OSLO
Postal address
Postboks 1048, Blindern
0316 OSLO
Other affiliations
Department of physics
Academic interests
My research focuses on applications of equilibrium and non-equilibrium computational statistical mechanics to a wide range of problems. These include surface structures of porous hydrogels, structure and dynamics of interfaces driven through a medium by an external force, electrochemical adsorption processes, dynamics of magnetization reversal in thin films, network-theoretical analysis of electrical power grids, and topics in evolutionary ecology. Full publication list, going back to 1977.
Background
I joined PoreLab at The University of Oslo as a Researcher in 2018, after serving as Professor of Physics at Florida State University in Tallahassee, Florida, since 1987. I received my M.Sc. (Cand. Real.) in Physics from the University of Oslo in 1976. Subsequently, I spent two years as a Japanese Government research student at Kyushu University in Fukuoka, Japan. After further stays at the University of Oslo, University of Geneva in Switzerland, and Kernforschungsanlage Jülich in Germany, I received my Ph.D. in Physics from Temple University in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, in 1983. While at Florida State University, I served several periods a Visiting Professor at The University of Tokyo, Kyoto Univeristy, McGill University, and Virginia Tech. Personal web page.
Awards
- 2001: Elected Fellow of The American Physical Society (APS). For innovative and significant computational studies in statistical and condensed-matter physics, materials science, and electrochemistry, including development of novel algorithms to study the decay of metastable phases of matter.
- 2004: Elected Foreign Member of The Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters.
- 2010: Elected Fellow of The American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS). For distinguished contributions to computational statistical physics and its interdisciplinary applications in condensed-matter and materials physics, electrochemistry, computer science, biology, and engineering.
- 2013: Selected as an Outstanding Referee for the Journals of the American Physical Society (APS).
Positions held
- 2010-18: Distinguished Research Professor, Florida State University.
- 2004-18: The James G. Skofronick Professor of Physics, Florida State University.
- 1992-2004: Professor of Physics, Florida State University.
- 1987-92: Associate Professor of Physics, Florida State University.
- 1985-87: Senior Research Chemist, ARCO Chemical Company, Newtown Square, PA.
- 1983-85: Postdoctoral Research Associate, Department of Mechanical Engineering, State University of New York at Stony Brook, Stony Brook, NY.
- 1981-83: Research Council of Norway Predoctoral Research Fellow, Department of Physics, Temple University, Philadelphia, PA.
- 1978-81: Predoctoral Research Associate, Department of Physics, University of Oslo, Norway.
- 1976-78: Japanese Ministry of Education Foreign Graduate Fellow, Department of Physics, Kyushu University, Fukuoka, Japan.
Publications
- Murase, Yohsuke & Rikvold, Per Arne (2018). Conservation of population size is required for self-organized criticality in evolution models. New Journal of Physics. ISSN 1367-2630. 20 . doi: 10.1088/1367-2630/aad861
- Nishino, Masamichi; Rikvold, Per Arne; Omand, Conor & Miyashita, Seiji (2018). Multistability in an unusual phase diagram induced by the competition between antiferromagnetic-like short-range and ferromagnetic-like long-range interactions. Physical Review B. ISSN 2469-9950. 98(14), s 144402-1- 144402-13 . doi: 10.1103/PhysRevB.98.144402
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