Guest Scientists
 
  Dr. Xiujiang Pang
Visiting scientist

College of Chemistry and Molecular Engineering, Qingdao University of Science and Technology, China





Research interests
  • Nanocomposite materials based on LDHs
  • Material science
  • Nanoscience

Academic career
   
1996 – 2000
 
Study of chemistry at Yantai Normal University, China
(B. S., 2000)


2000 – 2004


 

Study of chemistry at  Sichuan University, Chengdu, China (M. S., 2004)


since 2006

 
Lecturer at Qingdao University of Science and Technology, China
2010 – 2013  
Dissertation at Qingdao University of Science and Technology with Prof. Dr. Wanguo Hou and Prof. Dr. Zaifeng Li; Topic: "Preparation and characterization of hydroxyl camptothecin intercalated HTlc nanohybrids"

Awards
   
2013

  Excellent dissertation at Qingdao University of Science and Technology

  

  Dr. Tsuyoshi Hirata
Rudolf Diesel Fellow
at the Institute for Advanced Study, TUM

Nippon Shokubai Co., Ltd., Osaka, Japan

Course of studies    
1975 – 1981


  Study of chemistry at Nagoya Institute of Technology, Japan
(B. S., 1979 and M. S. ,1981)

2010


  Dissertation at Hokkaido University with Prof. Dr. Nawa, Topic:
"Design of polycarboxylate-type superplasticizer for concrete based on its working mechanism"
   

Industrial activity
   
since 1981


  Research chemist at Nippon Shokubai Co., Ltd., Japan
Development of water-soluble polymers
Inventor of PCE superplasticizers

Awards    
2006



  Kondo-Daimon Award of the Tokyo Institute of Technology for the
"Material design and product development of polycarboxylate-type superplasticizers"

2013   Hans-Kühl-medal of the GDCh-Fachgruppe Bauchemie for the invention of polycarboxylate-based superplasticizers
   
     

 
  Prof. Dr. Imre Dékány
Visiting Fellow
at the Institute for Advanced Study, TUM


Department of Colloid Chemistry,
University of Szeged

Research interests

  • Synthesis and characterization of nano particles and polymer-nanocomposite materials
  • Colloidal chemistry of clays and LDHs (sorption processes, stability, rheology)
  • Interfacial and surface processes
  • Crude oil emulsions
  • Micro emulsions
  • Ecological colloidal chemistry

Academic career    
since 1989


  Head of the Department of Colloid Chemistry (since 1989) and of the Nanostructured Materials Research Group of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Szeged (since 1998)

since 2000

  Head of the Chemistry PhD School, University of Szeged

since 2003

  Vice Rector for Scientific and Foreign Affairs of University of Szeged

Awards    
1997

  Széchenyi-Award, Ministry of High Education

1998   Canon Award and Visiting Professorship in Japan

2000   Eduard-Raphael-Liesegang Prize (German Colloid Society)

2001   Corresponding member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences

2003   Ipolyi Arnold Prize of the Hunagrian National Scientific Fund (OTKA)