Ing. Dominik Legut, Ph.D.

+420 596 999 544 (IT262)

IT262

Studentská 6231/1b, 708 00 Ostrava - Poruba

Ing. Dominik Legut, Ph.D.
Senior scientist - Head of Material Design Flagship
IT4Innovations - Czech National Supercomputing Centre
VSB - Technical University of Ostrava
17. listopadu 2172/15
CZ 708 00, Czech Republic
tel. +420 597 329 544

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• Union of Czech Mathematicians and Physicists, Czech Physical Society (since 2015...)

• Vice-chairmans of panel P204 - Physics of condensed matter - Grant Agency of the Czech Republic (2017-2019)

• Chairman of panel P204 - Physics of condensed matter - Grant Agency of the Czech Republic (2019-2021)

Eng., Ph.D.

• nuclear fuel materials

• thermal conductivity and thermal expansion

• ultrafast demagnetization and magneto-optics in UV, VIS, and X-ray energy
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• design of ultrahard solids, heterostructures, and protective coatings

• spin-orbit coupling and magnetism in reduced dimensions

• energy-storage materials

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https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9185-9934

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Science & research

• E. Baldini , C.A.. Belvin, M. Rodriguez-Vega, I. O. Ozel, D. Legut, A. Kozłowski, A. M. Oleś, K.Parlinski, P. Piekarz, J. Lorenzana, G. A. Fiete, and N. Gedik, Discovery of the soft electronic modes of the trimeron order in magnetite, Nature Physics16, 541 (2020), https://doi.org/10.1038/s41567-020-0823-y, IF=21.797, cited 0x


• Z.H. Fu, N. Wang, D. Legut, C. Si, Q. Zhang, S. Du, T.C. Germann, J.S. Francisco, R.F. Zhang, Rational Design of Flexible Two-Dimensional MXenes with Multiple Functionalities, Chem. Reviews 119, 11980-12031 (2019), https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.chemrev.9b00348, IF=54, cited 10x


• R.F. Zhang, S.H. Zhang, Y.Q. Guo, Z.H. Fu, D. Legut, T.C. Germann, S. Veprek, First- principles design of strong solids: Approaches and applications, Physics Reports, 826, 1-49, (2019), https://doi.org/10.1016/j.physrep.2019.09.004, IF=28, cited 5x


• D. Legut, M. Friák and M. Šob: Why is polonium simple cubic and so highly anisotropic?, Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 187401 (2007), https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.99.016402, IF=9.227, cited 39x


• H. Tian, Z. W. Seh, K. Yan, Z. Fu, P. Tang, Y. Lu, R. Zhang, D. Legut, Y. Cui, Q. Zhang, Theoretical Investigation of Two-Dimensional Layered Materials as Protective Films forLithium and Sodium Metal Anodes, Advan. Ene. Mat. 7, 1602528 (2017), https://doi.org/10.1002/aenm.201602528, IF=24.884 cited 73x


• D. Legut, M. Friák and M. Šob: Phase stability, elasticity, and theoretical strength of polonium from first principles, Phys. Rev. B 81, 214118 (2010), https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevB.81.214118, IF=3.736 cited 73x


• R. F. Zhang, D. Legut, Z. J. Lin, Y. S. Zhao, H. K. Mao, and S. Veprek: Stability and strength of transition-metal tetraborides and triborides, Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 255502 (2012), https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.108.255502, IF=9.227 cited 121x


• H. Zhang, Z. Fu, R. Zhang, Q. Zhang, H. Tian, D. Legut, T. C. Germannd, Y. Guoa, S. Due, and J. S. Francisco, Designing flexible 2D transition metal carbides with strain-controllable lithium storage, Proc. Nat. Acad. USA 114, E11082-E11091 (2017), https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1717219115, IF= 10.6 cited 121x


• R. F. Zhang, D. Legut, R. Niewa, A.S. Argon, and S. Veprek, Shear-induced structural transformation and plasticity in ultraincompressible ReB2 limit its hardness, Phys. Rev. B 82, 104104 (2010), https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevB.82.104104, IF=3.736 cited 50x


• T. Fan, P. Grychtol, R. Knut, C. Hernández-García, D. D. Hickstein, D. Zusin, Ch. Gentry, F. Dollar, Ch. Mancusoa, C. W. Hogle, O. Kfir, D. Legut, K. Carva, J. L. Ellisa,Dorneya, C. Chena, O. G. Shpyrko, E. E. Fullertonh, O. Cohenc, P. M. Oppeneer, D.Miloševic, A. Becker, A. A. Jaron-Becker, T. Popmintcheva, M. M. Murnanea, and H.Kapteyn, Bright circularly polarized soft X-ray high harmonics for X-ray magnetic circular dichroism, Proc. Nat. Acad. USA 112, 14206 (2015), https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1519666112, IF=10.6. cited 14

• 2017–2021 Head of Research Progrram No. 2, Path2Exascale project funded by Operational Programme Research, Development and Education Funds, No. CZ.02.1.01/0.0/0.0/16_013/ 0001791 (budget 503mil. CZK)

• 2017–2019 PI of the Czech Science Foundation grant No.17-27790S “New materials for nuclear fuels for IVth generation reactors”

• 2017–2019 co-PI of the Czech Science Foundation grant No.17-23964S “Dispersively strenghtened high entropic alloys for usage at extreme conditions”

• 2019-2020 PI of Donau project with Slovakia and Austria, No. 8X20050 “Multiscale design of novel Rare Earth free permanent magnets”

• 2018-2019 PI of bilateral grant with Univ. Leoben, Leoben, Austria, No. 8J18AT004 “Explanation and understanding of the magnetostriction in Fe-Ti alloys”

• 2017-2018 PI of Donau project with Slovakia and Austria, No. 8X17046 “Complex study of effects in low-dimensional quantum spin systems”

• 2018-2019 PI of bilateral grant with University of Muenster, Germany (7AMB13DE004) No. 8J18DE004: Metal- graphene interfaces – foundations of novel spintronic materials

See my CV at www.md-esg.eu/staff/dominik-legut, articles in Nature Physics, Reports in Physics, Chemical Review...etc.