Tamas Turanyi, ELTE, Budapest, Hungary

Tamás Turányi

Laboratory for Chemical Kinetics
Institute of Chemistry
Eötvös University (ELTE)

Postal address: 1518 Budapest, P.O.Box 32, Hungary
Street address: 1117 Budapest Pázmány P. 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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Visitors since 1^st January, 2013

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b. 1959; MSc in Chemistry, Eötvös University, Budapest, 1983; MSc in Applied Mathematics, Eötvös University, Budapest, 1988; PhD in Physical Chemistry, Eötvös University, Budapest, 1988; CSc in Chemistry, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest, 1990; DSc, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest, 2004; Dr.habil., Eötvös University, Budapest, 2005; 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, Eötvös University (ELTE), 1995-1999; Associate Professor at the Department of Physical Chemistry, Eötvös University (ELTE), 1999-2007; Professor of Chemistry at the Institute of Chemistry, Eötvös University (ELTE), 2007-

Current assignments:

Head of the Laboratory for Chemical Kinetics of the ELTE (2006- )
Head of the Environmental Chemistry Program of the Environmental Science Doctoral School of the ELTE (2009- )
Chair of the Hungarian Section of the Combustion Institute (2011- )
Chair of the Reaction Kinetics and Photochemistry Working Committee of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences (2008- )
Member of the Hungarian Scientific Research Fund OTKA "Chemistry 1" Evaluation Panel (2012-2015)
Member of the Hungarian Section of the World Petroleum Council (2012- )

Previous assignments:
Secretary of the Reaction Kinetics and Photochemistry Working Committee of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences (1992-2008)
ACH Models in Chemistry, Member of the Editorial Board (1994-2000)
Int. J. Chem. Kinet., 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)

My Family (the kids: Zsofia and András).

Teaching

"Again. An acre is the area of a rectangle whose length is one furlong and whose width is one chain."
Pink Floyd: The Wall (the movie)

Lectures in English:

Physical Chemitry (1st year Biology Major)
Physical Chemistry (Medical School SOTE, 2nd year students of pharmacy)
Physical Chemistry Laboratory Practice (Medical School SOTE, 2nd year students of pharmacy)

For the Hungarian courses please visit my Hungarian home page.

Chain reactions Powerpoint slides of a lecture in my 'Chemical Kinetics' course.

Research

You sold a reverberating carbonizer with mutate capacity to an unlicensed cephalopoid, Jeebs!
- Agent K, Men in Black

Left to right: Gergely Vincze, Carsten Olm, Tamás Turányi, Róbert Pálvölgyi, Éva Valkó, Tamás Varga, István Gy. Zsély

Publications - conferences - citations

Research interests

development of complex reaction mechanisms
development of mathematical tools for the computational study of complex reaction mechanisms

development of tools for understanding of the structure and behaviour of large complex mechanisms
elaboration of methods for the fast calculation of chemical kinetic systems.

computer simulation of spatially homogeneous and heterogeneous chemical kinetic systems.

combustion chemistry
atmospheric chemistry
chemical oscillations and waves
enzyme kinetic systems

experimental study of gas-phase elementary reactions by laser flash photolysis, using resonance-fluorescence and laser induced fluorescence detection.