For every complex problem there is an answer that is clear, simple, and wrong.

                                                                                                 H. L. Mencken


Short bio

Born in 1959; MSc in Chemistry, ELTE Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest, 1983; MSc in Applied Mathematics, ELTE Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest, 1988; PhD in Physical Chemistry, ELTE Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest, 1988; CSc in Chemistry, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest, 1990; DSc, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest, 2004; Dr. habil., ELTE Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest, 2005; Fellow of The Combustion Institute, 2019; Erdös number=4 .

 

Research Fellow in the Central Research Institute for Chemistry, Budapest, 1983-95; Visiting Research Fellow to the School of Chemistry, The University of Leeds, UK, 1990-92, 1994-95; Senior Research Fellow at the Department of Physical Chemistry, ELTE Eötvös Loránd University, 1995-1999; Associate Professor at the Department of Physical Chemistry, ELTE Eötvös Loránd University, 1999-2007; Professor of Chemistry at the Institute of Chemistry, ELTE Eötvös Loránd University, 2007-


Current assignments

Head of the Chemical Kinetics Laboratory of ELTE (2006- )
Head of the Environmental Science Doctoral School of ELTE (2020-2025)
Chair of the Chemistry Habilitation Panel of ELTE (2013- )
Member of the Habilitation Commiittee of ELTE Faculty of Science (2013- )
Alumni Organizer, Institute of Chemistry, ELTE (2019- )
Member of the Physical Chemistry Committee of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences (-2027)
Chair of the Hungarian Section of the Combustion Institute (2011- )
Member of the Hungarian Section of the World Petroleum Council (2012- )
Member of the Editorial Board of the Proceedings of the Combustion Institute
                                    (2013-2026)


Previous assignments

Secretary of the Reaction Kinetics and Photochemistry Working Group
                                                                of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences (1992-2008)
Chair of the Reaction Kinetics and Photochemistry Working Group
                                    of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences (2008-2018)
ACH Models in Chemistry, Member of the Editorial Board (1994-2000)
International Journal of Chemical Kinetics, Member of the Editorial Board (2004-2006)
ELTE Institute of Chemistry, Vice Director for Science (2008-2012)
Representative in the General Assembly of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences (2007-2013)
Member of the Hungarian Scientific Research Fund OTKA
                                                                            "Chemistry 1" Evaluation Panel (2012-2014)
Director of the Institute of Chemistry of ELTE (2015-2018)
Member of the  Editorial Board of the Journal of Physical and Chemical Reference Data
(2018-2022)
Head of the Environmental Chemistry Program of the ELTE Environmental Science Doctoral School (2009-2023)


 


Family


My wife Edit and my kids Zsofia and Andras. My granddaughter: Fruzsina Turányi.

The Tamas name frequency in Hungary: The name is in TOP Eleven most common man name in Hungary. As 1st name: 1.341%, as 2nd name: 0.2174%. 



Publications

 

ChemKinLab


Tamás Turányi
Chemical Kinetics Laboratory
Institute of Chemistry
ELTE Eötvös Loránd University
Address: 1117 Budapest
Pázmány Péter sétány 1/A, Hungary
Phone: +36-1-372-2500 ext. 1109
Fax: +36-1-372-2592
e-mail: turanyi@chem.elte.hu

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