CURRICULUM
VITAE
Place of birth: Dorog,
Hungary
Date of birth: August
18, 1959
Family status: married
(daughters: Barbara (1988), Júlia (1991), and Andrea (1994))
D.Sc. (1998) in
chemistry (Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest, Hungary)
C.Sc. (1993) in
chemistry (Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest, Hungary)
Ph.D. (1985) in
theoretical chemistry (Eötvös University of Budapest, Hungary)
M.S. (1983) in
chemistry (Eötvös University of Budapest, Hungary)
“Széchenyi Prize” of
the State of Hungary, 2017
“Robert S. Mulliken
Lecturer”, UGA, Athens, GA, 2014
“Michael Polányi
Award” of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, 2012
“István Széchenyi
Fellowship”, 2001
“Sir Harold Thompson
Award” of Elsevier, 1997
“Széchenyi
Professorial Fellowship”, 1997
“Hungarian National
Fellowship” for the best students, 1981-82, 1982-83
“Excellent Student” of
Eötvös Loránd University, 1983
“Award of Excellence”
of the Hungarian Chemical Society, 1983
First-principles quantum
chemical computations on small and medium-sized, organic and inorganic
molecular systems with an emphasis on fourth-age variational quantum chemical
nuclear-motion computations. Theoretical prediction of vibrational (infrared,
near- and far-IR, and Raman), rotational (microwave and millimeterwave),
rovibrational and photoelectron spectra; in particular, interpretation of
high-resolution molecular spectra. Development of the theory of spectroscopic
networks and their utilization in improving spectroscopic information systems.
Resonances and tunnelling in chemistry. Potential energy and property
hypersurfaces. Computation, interpretation and use of harmonic and anharmonic
molecular force fields. Large-amplitude internal motions. Structures of
molecules in the gas phase as studied by experimental and theoretical methods,
with an emphasis on astructural molecules. Ab
initio thermochemistry, including determination of accurate enthalpies of
formation and partition functions at elevated temperatures. More than 230 scientific publications with more than 8000
citations, an h-index of 48 and an i10-index of 145.
Assistant
Professor, Laboratory of
Theoretical Chemistry, Eötvös University, Budapest, Hungary; June 1983 – Oct.
1988
Associate
Professor, Laboratory of Theoretical
Chemistry, Eötvös University, Budapest, Hungary; Oct. 1988 – 2002
Professor, Institute of Chemistry, Eötvös University, Budapest, Hungary;
Oct. 2002 –
Head
of Laboratory, Laboratory of Molecular Spectroscopy, Eötvös University, Budapest, Hungary; May 2006 – December 2011
Head
of Laboratory, Laboratory of Molecular Structure and Dynamics, Eötvös University, Budapest, Hungary; January 2012 –
Head
of Research Group, MTA-ELTE Complex Chemical Systems Research Group, Budapest, Hungary; July 2013 –
Honorary
Research Fellow, Department of
Physics and Astronomy, University College London, November 2006 –
Post-Doctoral
Research Associate,
Department of Chemistry, Oregon State University, Corvallis, Oregon, USA; Nov.
1985 - April 1987
Visiting
Scholar, Department of
Theoretical and Radiation Chemistry, University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria;
June 1988 - August 1988
Visiting
Scholar, Department of
Chemistry, Oregon State University, Corvallis, Oregon, USA; April 1989 - Sept.
1989
Visiting
Scholar, Department of
Chemistry, Stanford University, Stanford, California, USA; Sept. 1989 - July
1991
Senior
Scientist, Failure Analysis
Associates, Inc., Menlo Park, CA, USA; July 1991 - Sept. 1992
Visiting
Scholar, Department of
Chemistry, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK; May - Sept. 1994
Visiting
Scholar, Department of
Chemistry, University of Reading, Reading, UK; June 1995-Dec. 1995
Visiting
Scholar, Center of
Computational Quantum Chemistry, University of Georgia, Athens, GA; April
1997-August 1997, April 1998-June 1998
Guest Professor, Université Paris-Est, Marne la Vallée,
France, March 2015
Titular
member, IUPAC Physical and
Biophysical Chemistry Division, January 2016 – 2018
Chair,
COST Action CM1405 –
Molecules in Motion (MOLIM), March 2015 –
Chair, MTA FKB Anyag- és Molekulaszerkezeti Munkabizottság, 2015 –
Editorial
Board Member, Spectrochimica Acta,
1994 –
Editorial
Board Member, Computational and
Theoretical Chemistry, 2014 –
Editorial
Board Member, Scientific Reports, 2015 –