Curriculum Vitae Prof. Dr. Johann Rafelski Department of Physics University of Arizona PAS Bldg 81, Room 386D 1118 E. 4th Street TUCSON, AZ 85721

EDUCATION

Abitur:	1968	Goethe Gymnasium, Frankfurt/Main	highest honors and price award
Study:	1968--71	J.W. Goethe University, Frankfurt	`Studienstiftung' Fellowship
Degrees:	1970	Vordiplom
	1971	Diplom Physiker
	1973	Dr. Phil. Nat., Theoretical Physics.	with Honors

EMPLOYMENT HISTORY

1971-73	Assistent Institut fuer Theoretische Physik	J.W. Goethe Universitaet, Frankfurt
1973-74	Postdoctoral Fellow	University of Philadelphia
1974-78	Postdoctoral Fellow from 1975 Junior Staff	Physics Division, Argonne National Laboratory, Chicago
1977-79	Fellow	CERN, Geneva
1979-83	C3-Professor fuer Theoretische Physik	J.W. Goethe Universitaet Frankfurt
1983-87	Chair of Theoretical Physics	University of Cape Town
1987 -- present	Professor of Physics Professor, Arizona Research Laboratory Affiliate Member, Applied Math Program Member, Theoretical Astrophysics Program	University of Arizona

VISITING ENGAGEMENTS

1971-93	Guest Scientist	NBS/NIST, Washington, DC
1980-06	Guest Scientist	CERN Theory Division (sabbatical leaves 1982/83, 1986/87, 2000/01, 2004/5)
1983-87	Scientific Advisor	US-MUCF research program BYU/ LAMPF The Los Alamos Meson Physics Facility
1979-91	Scientific Advisor and Guest Scientist	GSI-Darmstadt, Germany
1992	Guest Scientist	MPI Max Planck Institut fuer Physik Werner-Heisenberg Institute, Munich
1993-06	Guest Professor	Universit'e Paris 7, LPTHE (sabbatical leave 1993/94, 2004/5)

TEACHING and PROFESSIONAL UNIVERSITY EXPERIENCE

• 30 years of lecturing experience at all levels and in most subjects of Theoretical Physics, with emphasis on subnuclear physics and relativistic quantum theory
• 25 years experience in supervision of graduate students and PhD candidates
• Hands on experience with revisions of undergraduate and graduate curricula, definition of and development of courses in theoretical physics
• Practical experience with four different University systems: the US, German, French and English
• Active participation in University administration (former member of the University Senate, member of numerous faculty committees)
• Organizational experience with major international conferences and meetings

CURRENT RESEARCH INTERESTS

1. Strange particles, quark-gluon plasma and nuclear collisions;
2. Quark-gluon hadronization in the early Universe;
3. Vacuum structure and relativistic quantum transport theory;
4. Neural nets and artificial intelligence;

GRANTEE:
US-National Science Foundation, US-Department of Energy, NATO-Scientific Affairs Devision.

PUBLICATIONS
Overall more than 400 research papers, including several books, monographs, and original conference reports; popular scientific papers. Several papers are frequently cited. A partial view is offered by the SLAC/SPIRES citation summary

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