Researcher, Department of Physics
University of Oslo (UiO)
Per Arne Rikvold 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. He received his B.Sc. (Cand. Mag.) and M.Sc. (Cand. Real.) in Physics from the University of Oslo. Subsequently, he 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, he received his Ph.D. in Physics from Temple University in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, in 1983. Before joining the faculty of Florida State University, he did a postdoc in Mechanical Engineering at State University of New York at Stony Brook and worked as a Senior Research Chemist with ARCO Chemical Company in suburban Philadelphia. While at Florida State University, he served several periods a Visiting Professor at The University of Tokyo, Kyoto Univeristy, McGill University, and Virginia Tech. He is a Fellow of the American Physical Society (APS) and the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) and a Member of the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters.
Dr. Rikvold’s research focuses on applications of equilibrium and nonequilibrium computational statistical mechanics to a wide range of problems. These include surface structures of porous hydrogels, structue 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.
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E-mail: p.a.rikvold@fys.uio.no