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
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
