Dan-Olof Riska

Dan-Olof Wilhelm Riska (born March 29, 1944 in Stockholm ) is a Finnish theoretical nuclear physicist .

Life

Riska studied at the University of Technology Helsinki with a diploma in 1967 and a licentiate as an engineer in 1970. In 1974 he was awarded a Dr. Ing. PhD. From 1968 he was at the Institute for Theoretical Physics at the University of Helsinki and from 1969 to 1971 he was a fellow at the Nordita in Copenhagen. From 1971 to 1974 he was Visiting Assistant Professor at the State University of New York at Stony Brook with Gerry Brown . In 1974 he became an Assistant Professor and 1977 Associate Professor at Michigan State University , which he remained until 1981. From 1980 to 2005 he was Professor of Physics at the University of Helsinki and since 2000 Director of the Institute of Physics in Helsinki.

In 1990 he was visiting scientist at Argonne National Laboratory and in 1993 at the University of Maryland at College Park.

He deals with theoretical nuclear physics and especially with mesons and quark degrees of freedom in nuclei. For example, in the 1970s, in part with Gerry Brown, he explored the role of the Two Pion Exchanges in nuclear forces.

His first publications were in the field of nuclear technology. In the 1970s he also published on theoretical quantum optics and he published on geophysics.

He has published with Mannque Rho , Gerry Brown, John W. Negele , Fritz Coester , Wolfram Weise , Franz Gross , among others .

Honors, memberships, consulting work, editing

In 2001 he was awarded an honorary doctorate (Dr. phil) from Uppsala University . He was on the program committee of the accelerator laboratory at the University of Jyväskylä , advisor at the Svedberg Laboratory at Uppsalam University, the Society for Heavy Ion Research in Darmstadt (2000 to 2005), at the CEA in Saclay, at the Jülich Research Center, in the underground laboratory of the Pyhäsalmi mine and since 2003 in Council of CERN (2010–2012 as Vice-President). This makes him the first Finn on the executive committee of CERN. In addition, from 1990 to 1996 he was head of the Hadron Physics and Nuclear Physics Committee at NORDITA.

He was co-editor of Nuclear Physics (co-editor of Nuclear Physics A since 1996), Physical Review C (2002 to 2004), Few Body Systems and Physica Scripta (1982 to 1997). He is a member of the Finnish Academy of Sciences. From 1998 to 2001 he was its president. In 2002 he became a member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences. He is also a member of the Finnish Academy of Technical Sciences, the Academy of Sciences in Uppsala and the Swedish Academy of Technical Sciences in Finland. He is a Fellow of the Institute of Physics (1999) and the American Physical Society (1994).

From 2009 to 2011 he was Chairman of the IUPAP Nuclear Physics Commission .

In 1994 he received the EJ Nyström Prize from the Finnish Academy of Science.

Fonts

• Nucleon Models , in John W. Negele , E. Vogt (editors), Advances in Nuclear Physics, Volume 22, Plenum Press, New York, 1996, pp. 1-36
• with L. Ya. Glozman The Spectrum of the Nucleons and the Strange Hyperons and Chiral Dynamics , Physics Reports, Volume 268, 1996, pp. 263-304
• The Long Road to Short Range Exchange Currents , Festschrift for GEBrown, Nuclear Physics A, Volume 606, 1996, pp. 251-259
• Exchange Currents , Physics Reports, Volume 181, 1989, pp. 208-268
• with EM Nyman Low Energy Properties of Baryons in the Skyrme Model , Reports on Progress in Physics, Volume 53, 1990, pp. 1137-1181
• Exchange Currents in Electron Scattering , in Mannque Rho, Denys Wilkinson (Ed.) Mesons in Nuclei , Volume 1, 1979, North Holland, Amsterdam 1979, pp. 757-787
• with M. Chemtob, JW Durso Two-pion exchange NN potential , Nuclear Physics B, Volume 38, 1972, pp. 141-206
• with Chemtob Nature of the Two-Pion Exchange Contribution to the Nuclear Force , Physics Letters B, Volume 36, 1971, pp. 313-316

Web links

• Homepage at the Helsinki Institute of Physics. 
• CV. 

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Anna-Kaisa Kontinaho Finnish professor appointed to CERN Management , 2010