Education
- Diploma in Chemical Engineering, 1977, University of Pannonia, Veszprém, Hungary
- Ph. D. in Chemistry, 1979, University of Pannonia, Veszprém, Hungary
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Professional Affiliations
- Department of Chemistry, Veterinary University, Budapest, Hungary, Assistant Professor of Chemistry, September 1, 1979 – March 31, 1981
- Chinoin Pharmaceutical and Chemical Works Ltd., Budapest, Hungary, Research Engineer, April 1, 1981 – December 31, 1981
- Department of Chemistry, Yale University, New Haven, CT, USA, Postdoctoral Research Associate, January 1, 1982 – August 31, 1984
- Department of Industrial and Engineering Chemistry, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH), Zürich, Switzerland, Scientific Co–worker, September 1, 1984 – September 15, 1987
- Corporate Research, Exxon Research and Engineering Company, Annandale, NJ, USA, Senior Staff Chemist, September 17, 1987 – November 30, 1998
- Department of Organic Chemistry, Eötvös University, Budapest, Hungary, Scientific Advisor, January 1, 1999 – June 30, 2001
- Department of Chemical Technology and Environmental Chemistry, Eötvös University, Budapest, Hungary, Chairman, December 1, 2004 – April 15, 2006
- Institute of Chemistry, Eötvös University, Budapest, Hungary, Professor, July 1, 2001 – April 30, 2009; Deputy Director for Science, February 15, 2006 – July 30, 2008;
- Head, Department of Biology and Chemistry, City University of Hong Kong, Kowloon, Hong Kong, May 4, 2009 – July 31, 2015.
- Chair Professor, City University of Hong Kong, Kowloon, Hong Kong, Department of Biology and Chemistry, May 4, 2009 – June 30, 2017; Department of Chemistry, July 1, 2017 – June 30, 2020
- Professor, Department of Chemical and Environmental Process Engineering, Budapest University of Technology and Economics, Budapest, Hungary, Professor, July 1, 2020 – present
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Teaching
- Green Chemistry and Catalysis course at BSc level (in Hungarian)
- Environmentally Benign and Catalytic Processes at MSc level (in Hungarian and English)
- Applied Chemistry course at BSc level (in Hungarian)
- Supervising undergraduate students, graduate students and postdoctoral fellows
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Current Research Interests
- The application of sustainable chemistry and green chemistry in product and process design including the use of alternative media such as water, bio-, fluorous and ionic liquids (since 1974).
- Development of a sustainable fluorous chemistry (since 1992).
- Valorization of agricultural residues and food wastes (since 1999)..
- Characterization and removal of microplastics from the river Danube (since 2019).
- Development of the definition and metrics of sustainable and green chemistry (since 2009).
- Mechanistic studies by using in situ spectroscopy (since 1974).
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Publications
Publications and Presentations as of October 15, 2020
Papers: 127; Book chapters and conference proceedings: 34; Books: 6; Patents: 22; Invited lectures: 150; Invited seminars: 225
Web of Science citations: 9105 and h-index: 44
Google Scholar citations: 11772, h-index: 45, and i10-index: 117
1979-1985, 1986-1990, 1991-1995, 1996-2000, 2001-2005, 2006-2010, 2011-2015, 2016-2020
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Editorial Services
- Member of the Editorial Advisory Board for Chemical Reviews, 1993 – 2019
- Member of the Editorial Board for Journal of Molecular Catalysis A: Chemical, 1995 – 2004
- Member of the International Advisory Board for Organometallic Synthesis, 1995 –
- Guest Editor of a thematic (Green) issue on Environmental Chemistry, Chemical Reviews, January/February, 1995
- Guest Editor of a thematic issue on Catalysis in Water of the Journal of Molecular Catalysis A: Chemical, 1997, 116, 1-316.
- Editor-in-Chief of the Encyclopedia of Catalysis, Wiley & Sons Inc., 1997 – 2002.
- Member of the Advisory Board for Industrial Catalysis News, 1997 – 1999.
- Member of the Advisory Board for Green Chemistry, 1998 – 2001.
- Guest Editor of a special issue on Green Chemistry, Accounts of Chemical Research, 2002, 35, 685-816.
- Member of the Editorial Advisory Board for Accounts of Chemical Research, 2001 – 2003.
- Member of the International Advisory Editorial Board for Dalton Transactions, 2001 – 2006.
- Co-Guest Editor (with P. Anastas) of a special issue on Green Chemistry, Chemical Reviews, 2007, 107, 2167.
- Member of the Editorial Advisory Board for Accounts of Chemical Research, 2007 – 2009.
- Member of the International Advisory Board for ChemSusChem, 2007 – 2012
- Member of the Advisory Board for Green Chemistry, 2010 –
- Editor of Fluorous Chemistry in Topics in Current Chemistry, Springer, 2010 – 2011.
- Member of the Editorial Advisory Board for ACS Sustainable Chemistry & Engineering, 2013 – 2016.
- Member of the Editorial Board for International Journal of Experimental Spectroscopic Techniques, 2015 –
- Guest Editor of a special issue of Journal of Organometallic Chemistry dedicated to John A. Gladysz on the occasion of his 65th birthday,
- Guest Editor of a special issue on Sustainable Chemistry, Chem. Rev., 2018, 118, 369.
- Co-Editor (with M. Malacria) Advance Green Chemistry, Volume 1, World Scientific Publishers, Singapore, 2015 – 2017, published in 2018.
- Member of the International Advisory Board for Periodica Polytechnica Chemical Engineering, Budapest University of Technology and Economics, 2016 –
- Co-Editor (with M. Malacria) Advance Green Chemistry, Volume 2, World Scientific Publishers, Singapore, 2016 – 2019, published in 2020.
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Organization of Scientific Meetings
- Co–chairman of the 15th National Science Foundation National Organometallic Chemistry Workshops, May 17–20, 1991, Annandale, New Jersey, USA
- Co–chairman of the First Exxon Frontiers of Science Workshop on Catalysis and Catalytic Processes, November 15–18, 1991, Annandale, New Jersey, USA
- Co–chairman of the 16th National Science Foundation National Organometallic Chemistry Workshops, May 7–10, 1992, Snowbird, Utah, USA
- Co–Vice chair of the 1992 Gordon Research Conference on Organometallic Chemistry, July 27–31, 1992, Newport, Rhode Island, USA
- Co–Chairman of the 1993 Gordon Research Conference on Organometallic Chemistry, July 12–16, 1993, Newport, Rhode Island, USA
- Co–chairman of the 17th National Science Foundation National Organometallic Chemistry Workshops, May 13–16, 1993, New Orleans, Louisiana, USA
- Co–Director of the NATO Advanced Research Workshop on Aqueous Organometallic Chemistry and Catalysis, August 29 – September 1, 1994, Debrecen, Hungary
- Co–Organizer of the ACS Symposium on Organometallic Chemistry and Catalysis in Water, ACS Spring Meeting, April 2–7, 1995, Anaheim, California, USA
- Chairman of the 10th International Symposium on Homogeneous Catalysis, August 11 – 16, 1996, Princeton, New Jersey, USA
- Co–Director of the NATO Advanced Study Institute on Management of Chemical Research, Development and Innovation, August 31 – September 11, 1998, Budapest, Hungary
- Co–Organizer of the ACS Symposium on Environmental Aspects of Inorganic and Organometallic Chemistry, ACS Fall Meeting, August 22–26, 1999, New Orleans, LA, USA
- Co–Vice chair of the 1999 Gordon Research Conference on Green Chemistry, July 11–16, 1999, Oxford, United Kingdom
- Co–Chairman of the 2000 Gordon Research Conference on Green Chemistry, July 15–20, 2000, Connecticut College, New London, CT, USA
- Co–Organizer of the ACS Symposium on Process Analytical Chemistry in Support of Green Chemistry, ACS Spring Meeting, April 1–5, 2001, San Diego, CA, USA
- Program Committee Member of the IUPAC CHEMRAWN XIV World Conference on Green Chemistry: Toward Environmentally Benign Processes and Products, June 9–13, 2001, Boulder, CO, USA
- Scientific Committee Member of the Conference on Green Solvents for Catalysis, October 13–16, 2002, Bruchsal, Germany
- Co–Organizer of the Symposium on Organometallic Catalysis in Alternative Solvent Systems, American Chemical Society Fall Meeting, September 7–11, 2003, New York, NY, USA
- Organizing Committee Member of the International Conference on Green Chemistry, June 21–25, 2005, Washington, D.C., USA
- International Advisory Committee Member of the 1st International Symposium on Fluorous Technologies, July 4–7, 2005, Bordeaux, France
- Chairman of the XVI FECHEM Conference on Organometallic Chemistry, September 3–8, 2005, Budapest, Hungary
- International Advisory Committee Member of the 2nd International Symposium on Fluorous Technologies, July 29–31, 2007, Yokohama, Japan
- Member of the International Scientific Committee, UBIOCHEM-I, Utilization of biomass for fuels and chemicals: the road to sustainability, COST Action CM0903, Córdoba, Spain, May, 13–15, 2010.
- Member of the Advisory Board, Green Solvents Conference, Berchtesgaden, Germany, October 11 – 13, 2010.
- International Advisory Committee Member of the 3rd International Symposium on Fluorous Technologies, Jackson Hole, Wyoming, USA, August 23-28, 2009.
- Chairman of the 18th Symposium on Chemistry Postgraduate Research in Hong Kong, April, 30, 2011.
- Member of the International Organizing Committee and Session Chair, 15th Annual Green Chemistry and Engineering Conference and the 5th International Conference on Green & Sustainable Chemistry, Washington, DC, USA, June 21–23, 2011.
- Montego Bay Group Workshop on Advanced Reaction Environments, Hong Kong, November 28–30, 2011
- Chairman of the 4th International Symposium on Fluorous Technologies, Hong Kong, November 28 – December 3, 2011.
- Member of the International Advisory Committee, 3rd Asian-Oceanian Conference on Green and Sustainable Chemistry, Melbourne, Australia, December 5-7, 2011.
- 1st Hong Kong NMR Workshop, Hong Kong, December 12-14, 2011.
- Co-Organizer of the Symposium on Sustainable Inorganic Chemistry, American Chemical Society Spring Meeting, San Diego, CA, USA, March 25-29, 2012.
- Member of the International Advisory Board, 5th International Symposium on Fluorous Technologies, Budapest, Hungary, June 2-5, 2013.
- Member of the International Advisory Board, 6th International Conference on Green and Sustainable Chemistry, Nottingham, UK, August 4-7, 2013.
- Member of the International Advisory Committee, 4th Asian-Oceanian Conference on Green and Sustainable Chemistry, New Taipei City, Taiwan, November 3 – 6, 2013.
- Member of the International Advisory Board, 7th Green Solvents Conference, Dresden, Germany, October 19-22, 2014.
- Member of the International Advisory Committee, 5th Asian-Oceanian Conference on Green and Sustainable Chemistry, New Delhi, India, January 15-17, 2015.
- Member of the International Advisory Board, 7th International Conference on Green and Sustainable Chemistry, Japan, 2015.
- Member of the International Advisory Board, 17th International Symposium on Relations between Homogeneous and Heterogeneous Catalysis (ISHHC17), Utrecht, Netherlands, July 12-15, 2015.
- Chairman of the 6th Asian-Oceanian Conference on Green and Sustainable Chemistry, Hong Kong, November 30 – December 3, 2016.
- Member of the International Advisory Board, 8th International Conference on Green and Sustainable Chemistry, Melbourne, Australia, July 23 – 28, 2017.
- Member of the International Scientific Advisory Committee, The Energy & Materials Research Conference – EMR2017, Lisbon, Portugal, April 5 – 7, 2017.
- Member of the International Advisory Board, 7th International Symposium on Fluorous Technologies, Boston, MA, USA, August 9-11, 2017.
- Member of the Program Committee, International Conference “Renewable Plant Resources: Chemistry, Technology, Medicine” (RR 2017), Saint Petersburg, Russia, September 18–22, 2017.
- Member of the International Advisory Board, 18th International Symposium on Relations between Homogeneous and Heterogeneous Catalysis (ISHHC18), Sydney, Australia, July 22-25, 2018.
- Member of the International Advisory Committee, 7th Asian-Oceanian Conference on Green and Sustainable Chemistry, Singapore, November 19-21, 2018.
- Member of the International Organizing Committee, 23rd Annual Green Chemistry & Engineering and 9th International Green and Sustainable Chemistry Conferences, Reston, Virginia, USA, June 11-13, 2019.
- Co-Chairmen of the 10th International Green and Sustainable Chemistry Conferences, Budapest, Hungary, August 11-13, 2021.
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Committee Services
- Member of review panels for the Department of Energy, National Science Foundation, Environmental Protection Agency, US Civilian Research and Development Foundation, 1992 –
- Chairman of a review panel for the US Civilian Research and Development Foundation on Electrical, Materials & Manufacturing Sciences & Engineering, February – July, 1996
- Member of the Exxon Chemical Research Committee, 1997–1998 Member of the International Advisory Board of the International Homogeneous Catalysis Symposia, 1997 –
- Member of the International Advisory Board of the International Symposia on Relationship Between Homogeneous and Heterogeneous Catalysis, 1998 – 2001
- Chairman of the Scientific Committee, Institute of Chemistry, Eötvös University, Budapest, Hungary, 1999 – 2002.
- Member of the International Scientific Committee of the International Symposia on Catalysis Applied for Fine Chemicals, 2001–
- Chairman of the COST Action D29 on Sustainable/Green Chemistry and Chemical Technology, European Commission/European Science Foundation, 2002 – 2007.
- Chairman of the Scientific Committee, Institute of Chemistry, Eötvös University, Budapest, Hungary, 2006 – 2008
- Member of the Scientific Advisory Board, CatchBio (www.catchbio.nl), 2007 – 2017.
- Member of Asia-Oceania Green and Sustainable Chemistry Network Committee,, 2009 – 2020.
- Member of the Physical Science Panel of the Research Grants Council, Hong Kong, China, 2009 – 2015.
- Member of the Honorary Awards Committee, City University of Hong Kong, China, 2010 – 2011
- Member of the International Advisory Board of the Centre in Green Chemistry and Catalysis, McGill University and Université de Montréal, 2012.
- Member of the Admission Panel of the Technology Business Incubation Programme of the Hong Kong Science and Technology Parks Corporation, 2012 – 2014
- Member of the International Advisory Board of the Centre in Green Chemistry and Catalysis, McGill University and University of Montreal, 2012.
- Member of the BScCM and SCM Examination Boards and the School Grade Review Committee, School of Creative Media, City University of Hong Kong, 2014 – 2020.
- Member of the School Board, School of Creative Media, City University of Hong Kong, 2016 – 2020.
- Member of the College Committee, College of Science and Engineering, City University of Hong Kong, 2016 – 2018.
- Member of the College Committee, College of Science, City University of Hong Kong, 2019 – 2020.
- Member of the George A. Olah Doctoral School of Chemistry and Chemical Technology, Faculty of Chemical Technology and Biotechnology, Budapest University of Technology and Economics, Budapest, Hungary, 2020 –
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Honors
- First Award, Hungarian Scientific Student Conference, Kazincbarcika, Hungary, 1977
- First Award for Diploma Thesis, Hungarian Chemical Society, Budapest, Hungary, 1978
- Research Team Award, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest, Hungary, 1981
- Ministerial Commendation, Hungarian Ministry of Education, Budapest, Hungary, 1981
- Exxon Golden Tiger Award, Exxon Research & Engineering Company, Annandale, New Jersey, USA, 1991
- Best Paper Award, Exxon Chemical Research Annual Meeting, Galveston, Texas, 1995 D. Sc. in Chemistry, 1998,
- Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest, Hungary Dr. Hab., 1999, Veszprém University, Veszprém, Hungary
- Széchenyi Professor Scholarship, 2000–2003, Ministry of Culture and Education, Budapest, Hungary, 1999
- 1st Fluorous Technology Award, International Symposium of Fluorous Technology, Bordeaux, France, July 3–5, 2005
- Humboldt Research Award, Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, Bonn, Germany, 2006
- Special Award for Organizing the XVI. FECHEM Conference on Organometallic Chemistry, Hungarian Chemical Society, Budapest, Hungary, 2006.
- Invited Professor, Université Bordeaux I, Bordeaux, France, 2007
- Invited Professor, Université Rennes I, Rennes, France, 2008
- Invited Professor, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Leuven, Belgium, 2008
- Green Chemistry Lecture Award at the Conference on Green Solvents sponsored by Green Chemistry, Royal Society of Chemistry, Lake Constance, Friedrichshafen, Germany, 2008
- Invited Professor, Khatolieke Universiteit Leuven, Leuven, Belgium, 2009.
- The Hans C. Freeman Lectureship, The University of Sydney, Australia, 2009.
- Honorary Member, National Academy of Sciences Literature and Arts of Modena, Italy, 2010.
- Vice President of the Rotary Club Kowloon North, 2010/2011.
- President-elect of the Rotary Club Kowloon North, 2011/2012.
- President of the Rotary Club Kowloon North, 2012/2013.
- Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry, 2013.
- Fellow of the American Chemical Society, 2014.
- AAAS Fellow, American Association for the Advancement of Science, Washington DC, USA, 2016.
- Paul Harris Fellow, Rotary International, Evanston, IL, USA, 2017.
- External Member, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest, Hungary, 2019.
- Member, European Academy of Sciences, Brussels, Belgium, 2020
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Memberships
- American Chemical Society, 1982 –
- Royal Society of Chemistry, 1987 –
- American Association for the Advancement of Science, 1993 –
- Rotary Club Budapest–Sasad, 1999 – 2009
- Hungarian Chemical Society, 2003 –
- Member of the Rotary Club Kowloon North, Hong Kong, 2009 – 2020
- Member of the Rotary Club Budapest–Sasad, 2020 –
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