István Fábián PhD, DSc

 

NAME:

 

István Fábián

 

 

PRESENT TITLE:

 

Rector of the University of Debrecen       

Professor of Chemistry

 

 

EDUCATION AND DEGREES:

 

1975-1980 student of chemistry

Kossuth Lajos University

 

1980-1982 research fellow

Department of Physical Chemistry, Kossuth Lajos University

1982-1986 assistant research fellow

Department of Inorganic and Analytical Chemistry, Kossuth Lajos University

 

1986-1994 assistant professor

Department of Inorganic and Analytical Chemistry, Kossuth Lajos University

1994-2003 associate professor

Department of Inorganic and Analytical Chemistry, Kossuth Lajos University (from 2000: University of Debrecen)

2003-  professor

Department of Inorganic and Analytical Chemistry, University of Debrecen

 

2005-  head of department

Department of Inorganic and Analytical Chemistry, University of Debrecen

 

2006-  member of the Reference Biotechnology Incubatorhouse Managing Board

 

2008-  manager, Debrecen Bioincubator Centre

 

2009-  head of programme, Doctoral School of Chemistry

 

 

SCHOLARSHIPS ABROAD:

 

1983-1984 postdoctoral fellow

Max-Planck-Institut für Biophysicalische Chemie

Abteilung Biochemische Kinetik

Göttingen, Germany

1988-1991 visiting research professor

Department of Chemistry

Miami University

Oxford, Ohio, USA

 

1992-1993 Alexander von Humboldt scholar

Institut für Anorganische Chemie

Universität Witten/Herdecke

Witten, Germany

 

 

SHORTER PROFESSIONAL VISITS:

 

1994 Visiting Scientist

Research Laboratory for Nuclear Reactors

Tokyo Institute of Technology

 

1995, 1996, 1999, 2000 Visiting Research Professor

Miami University, Oxford, Ohio, USA

1997, 1998, 1999, 2001 Visiting Research Professor

Research Laboratory for Nuclear Reactors

Tokyo Institute of Technology

 

1999, 2002 Visiting Research Professor

Institut für Anorganische Chemie

Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany

 

 

UNIVERSITY AND SCIENTIFIC DEGREES:

 

1980 MSc-equivalent degree in Chemistry

Kossuth Lajos University

 

1982 University Doctor degree (summa cum laude)

Kossuth Lajos University

 

1991 PhD

Hungarian Academy of Sciences

 

1998 Dr.habil.

Kossuth Lajos University

 

2002 Doctor of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences (DSc)

Hungarian Academy of Sciences

 

 

LANGUAGE SKILLS:

 

English, advanced

 

Russian, basic

 

German, basic

 

COURSES TAUGHT:

 

1980-1982 Physical Chemistry

 

1982-1988 Classical and Instrumental Analytical Chemistry

 

1985-1988 General and Inorganic Chemistry

 

1985-1988 Numerical Methods and Computer Science for Chemists

 

1991-  General Chemistry, Classical and Instrumental Analytical Chemistry

 

1994-  Reaction Kinetics

 

1997 Environmental Chemistry Redox Reactions (St. Andrews University, Scotland)

 

1996-  Analytical Chemistry

 

1997-2009 Instrumental Analytical Chemistry

 

2008-  coordinator, Chemistry MSc training programme 

 

SUPERVISED Ph.D. DEGREES:            5

 

SUPERVISED MASTER'S THESES:   26

 

ACADEMIC RECOGNITION:

 

1992-1993 Alexander von Humboldt Scholarship

 

1998-2001 Széchenyi Professor's Scholarship

 

2001-2003 Széchenyi István Scholarship

 

 

 

MEMBERSHIPS:

 

1980-  Hungarian Chemists' Society

 

1993-  Hungarian Humboldt Association

 

1997-  International Ozone Association

 

1997   president of the organizing committee of Inorganic Reaction Mechanisms Meeting 97(Royal Society of Chemistry)

 

1998-  member of the editorial board of Inorganic Reaction Mechanisms

 

1998-2002  member of the organizing committee of Dalton Discussion 4 conference

 

2002-  American Chemical Society, founder of the Hungarian Chapter

 

2005-2008  member of the editorial board of Reaction Kinetics and Catalysis Letters

 

2009-  editor-in-chief of Reaction Kinetics and Catalysis Letters

 

 

PUBLICATIONS:

 

articles in journals: 75

 

impact factor (total): 176.51

 

independent citations: 765

 

conference presentations, posters: 145

 

university teaching materials published: 5

 

 

 

LIST OF PUBLICATIONS