Paul Szabo

* Košice, July 7, 1968 – / physicist, scientific researcher ; ; younger brother of the artist Ottó Szabó. He completed his primary and secondary education in Košice (1986). He obtained a degree in physics from the P. J. Šafárik University in Košice (1991). Since 1991, he has been a scientific associate at the Košice Experimental Physics Research Institute of the Slovak Academy of Sciences, and since 2010, he has been the head of the Department of Low-Temperature Physics, a lecturer at Šafárik University. In 1998, he obtained a PhD degree with a dissertation on high-temperature superconductors. In 1993–1999, he was a scholarship holder at the Max Planck Institute in Germany, the CNRS in France, and the Laboratory of Strong Magnetic Fields in Grenoble. Between 2000 and 2003, he spent 9 months as an invited researcher at the J. Fourier University in Grenoble. Between 2004 and 2008, he was a visiting researcher at the UAM University in Madrid on several occasions. His research area is low-temperature physics, primarily the investigation of the physical properties of superconducting materials. In 2007 and 2010, together with Spanish colleagues, he built a low-temperature scanning tunneling electron microscope at the Experimental Physics Research Institute in Košice. With the help of the device, the physical properties of certain metallic materials can be examined at the atomic level at very low temperatures and in a strong magnetic field. He has published nearly 90 scientific papers in Slovak and foreign journals. In 2003, Duna Television screened a portrait film about him and his brother, the artist Ottó Szabó. He participated in the production of the Slovak Television's educational film on low-temperature physics (2010). Awards, professional recognitions: Multiple winner of the Slovak Competition of Young Physicists, Young Scientist of the Year (2002), Thomson ISI WOS recognition as a frequently cited author in the field of superconductivity (2003), 1st place in the SZTA publication competition (2003), SZTA award for excellent results in the field of superconductivity, SZTA award for the development of scientific infrastructure.