CV

What follows is a brief summary of my CV. You can download a pdf version of my complete CV here.

Personal Data

* First Name: Roman Oscar; Family Name: Orus Lacort

* Date and place of birth: January 4th 1979, Barcelona (Spain)

* Immigration status: Spanish nationality, Australian temporary resident (long-stay 457 business visa)

Employment and Education History

* January 2008 - Today: Australian Research Council (ARC) Postdoctoral Fellow at the group of Prof. Guifre Vidal at the School of Physical Sciences, University of Queensland (Australia).

* September 2006 - December 2007: contract as Research Fellow, appointment at academic level B at the group of Prof. Guifre Vidal at the School of Physical Sciences, University of Queensland (Australia).

* September 2006 - (declined) Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Perimeter Institute (Canada).

* July 2002 - July 2006: Ph.D. studies with an FPI fellowship from the Ministerio de Educacion y Ciencia, Departament d’Estructura i Constituents de la Materia, Faculty of Physics, University of Barcelona (Spain). Supervisor: Prof. Jose I. Latorre.

* March 2002 - June 2002: Ph.D. studies with a contract as Research Assistant, at the Departament d’Estructura i Constituents de la Materia, Faculty of Physics, University of Barcelona (Spain). Supervisor: Prof. Jose I. Latorre.

* September 1997 - Febrary 2002: first degree in physics, University of Barcelona (Spain).

Awards and Grants

* Honourable mention in the Vaclav Votruba Prize for the best thesis in theoretical physics from the Doppler Institute (Prague, Czech Republic), 2008.

* University of Queensland Early Career Researcher Grant, 2008.

* APD Postdoctoral Fellowship from the Australian Research Council (ARC), 2007.

* Extraordinary Award of the Ph.D. in Physics of the University of Barcelona (Spain), 2007.

* Award of European Doctor in Physics of the University of Barcelona (Spain), 2006.

* FPI fellowship from the spanish Ministerio de Educacion y Ciencia for Ph.D. studies, 2002.

* Extraordinary Award of the Degree in Physics of the University of Barcelona (Spain), 2003.

Students

* PhD: Jacob Jordan (associate supervisor), Chris Foster (independent thesis advisor) at The University of Queensland.

* Honours: David Evans (supervisor) at The University of Queensland.