Research Activities

Investigation of the influence of reaction – diffusion processes for the design of structured and patterned electrode architectures.
See description.

Expertise and Interests

Chemical Kinetics, Reaction-Diffusion and Reaction-Diffusion-Convection Systems, Nonlinear Dynamics, Chemical Self-Organisation, Chemical Pattern Formation and Control, Computational Modelling, Photocatalysis, Surfaces and Thin Films

Publications

19  publications, see list (60 kb)

Curriculum Vitae

2009 –         EMPA, Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology
                  Researcher – Department of Advanced Materials and Surfaces, Laboratory for High Performance Ceramics
                      Exploring strategies to tailor the morphology of hematite films for photoelectrochemical applications

2006 – 2008  UNIVERSITY OF THE WEST OF ENGLAND, Bristol, UK
                  Postdoctoral Research Fellow - Faculty of the Applied Sciences
                      Project: "Non-linear Media Based Computers: Chemical and Neuronal Networks through Machine Learning"

2003 – 2006  UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS - SCHOOL OF CHEMISTRY, Leeds, UK 
                   Postdoctoral Research Fellow (2005-2006)
                   Project: "Non-linear Media Based Computers: Chemical and Neuronal Networks through Machine Learning"
                   Postdoctoral Research Fellow (2003-2005),
                   Project: "Waves and Coupling in Discontinuous Excitable Media"

2002-2003    TEVA PHARMACEUTICALS WORKS LTD., Debrecen, Hungary 
                   Analytical  Engineer - R&D Department
                       HPLC, stability, and dissolution tests

1996-2002    UNIVERSITY OF DEBRECEN - INSTITUTE OF PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY, Debrecen, Hungary
                   Ph.D. & Graduate Student - Nonlinear Chemical Dynamics Group (1997-2002)
                   Research theme: Pattern formation in reaction-diffusion and convection systems 
                   Summer Student - Nonlinear Chemical Dynamics Group (1996)
                   Dispersion relation of target patterns in excitable BZ media.

Degrees

UNIVERSITY OF DEBRECEN, Debrecen, Hungary,
Ph.D. Physical Chemistry (2002). Thesis:  "Pattern formation in reaction-diffusion and convection systems"
Master of Science in Chemistry (1998). Dissertation: "Dispersion relation for waves in the ferroin-catalysed Belousov-Zhabotinski reaction" 

Languages

English, Hungarian