Personal Information

• Place and date of birth: Debrecen, Hungary, 27th April 1936
• Marital status: married
• Children: 2

Education and Qualifications

• M.Sc. Metallurgical Engineering l963,
• Ph.D. Chemical Sciences 1973, Roland Eötvös University, Budapest
• D.Sc. Chemical Sciences 1996, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest

Positions and Professional Experience

• Research Institute for Technical Physics (Dept. Semiconductors) of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, 1963-1973.
• Head of Surface Chemistry Group. Research Laboratory for Inorganic Chemistry of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences. Chemical reactions on solids. Characterization of solid surfaces, 1973-1997.
• Head of Group of Nanolayer Chemistry . Institute of Materials and Environmental Chemistry, Chemical Reserac Center, Hungarian Academy of Sciences. Characterization of solid surfaces, 1998-2006.

Present Research Activity

• Basic studies on ion/atom beam induced reactions on solid surfaces by X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy

Memberships

• Committee for Surface Chemistry and Nanostructure of Materials (HAS), Head of Committee
• Committee for Silicate Chemistry of the HAS,
• Committee for Materials Science of the HAS,
• Roland Eötvös Physical Society (Hungary).

Travels

• Postgraduate work at the Ioffe Physico-Technical Institute of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR in 1970-72. (Prof. N. A. Goryunova, Prof. Z. I. Alferov),
• Postdoctoral fellowship at the University of Edinburgh, Dept.Inorganic Chemistry, 1974-75 (Prof. E. A. W. Ebsworth), British Council fellowship at the University of Birmingham, School of Metallurgy and Materials (Prof. T. Bell) and at the University of Aston, Dept.Applied Physics (Dr. J. L. Sullivan) 1988-89.
• Numerous short visits, e. g. at various institutes of the German Academy of Sciences, of Consiglio Nazionale della Ricerca (Rome, Italy), of CNRS at the University of Lyon (France), at universities in the USA: Florida (Gainesville), Nebraska (Lincoln), Texas (Austin), Connecticut (Storrs).

Languages

• English
• Russian

Publications

Author and co-author of more than 140 scientific papers (the majority are published in English, in international journals and conference proceedings)

List of selected papers

List of Publications