Curriculum Vitae
Zsolt Révay
last updated: 19 July 2010
Name: Zsolt Miklós Révay
Date of birth: 31 July 1961
Place of birth: Budapest, Hungary
Nationality: Hungarian
Gender: Male
Education and Degrees
1966-1979 Mihály Fazekas Primary and Secondary Grammer School, Budapest (language major)
1980-1985 Chemical Engineer Veszprém University, Veszprém, Hungary, degree in radiochemistry
1988 Univ. doctor degree of Veszprém University, Veszprém, Hungary (topic: complex instrumental analysis of zeolites)
2000 Ph.D. degree of Veszprém University, Veszprém, Hungary (topic: further development of prompt gamma activation analysis)
2010 Doctor of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences (D.Sc.): Quantitative Analysis in PGAA
Scholarships
1984-1985 Scholarship of the Hungarian Republic
1985-1988 Scholarship of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences
2004 NATO scholarship
2002-2005 Bolyai Scholarship of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences
Positions
1985-1988 Graduate student at Veszprém University (scholarship of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences)
1988-1991 Research Fellow at Institute of Isotopes
1991-2000 Research Scientist at Institute of Isotopes
2000-2010 Senior Research Scientist at Institute of Isotopes
2010 Scientific advisor
2000 Team Leader of the Analytical Group at the Nuclear Research Department
2004 Deputy Department Head of the Nuclear Research Department at Institute of Isotopes
Memberships
2001 Member of k0-users International Scientific Committee
2003 Secretary of the Radioanalytical Chemistry Group in the Hungarian Chemical Society
2003 Member of the Scientific Committee of the Institute of Isotopes
2005 Member of Radiochemistry Committee of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences
2007 Member of the International Committee of Activation Analysis
2008 Member of the Advisory Board for Journal of Radioanalytical and Nuclear Chemistry
2009 Head of the k0 Nuclear Data Committee
Professional activities
2000 Reviewer for the Journal of Radianalytical Nuclear Chemistr, Applied Radiation and Isotopes, Radiochimica Acta, Nuclear Instruments and Methods
1994 Local Organizer of the "Int. Workshop on Neutron Research and Applications", Budapest, Hungary, 2426 March 1994
1996 Local Organizer of the "9th Int. Symposium on Capture Gamma-Ray Spectroscopy and Related Topics", Budapest, Hungary 812 October, 1996
2002 Local Organizer of the first RCM on the IAEA CRP "New Applications of PGAA" 57 December 2002, Budapest, Hungary"
2008 Local Organizer of the 7th International Conference on Nuclear and Radiochemistry, 24-29 Aug 2008, Budapest
2010 Member of the Technical Committee of 4th International Conference on Nuclear Analytical Chemistry, November 15-19, Mumbai, India
2011 Session organizer, Modern Trends in Activation Analysis March 13-18, 2011, Texas A&M University, Texas, USA
Co-operative scientific visits
1988 3 months, Halle, Insitut für Festkörperphysic (electron microscopy)
1993 University of Kentucky (nuclear instrumentation)
1993, 2006 National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), Gaithersburgh, USA, (PGAA)
2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2010 Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, USA (nuclear data)
2006, 2010 China Institute of Atomic Energy, Beijing, China (design of PGAA facility)
2006 University of Texas, Austin, Texas, USA (design of PGAA facility)
2008 CDTN, Belo Horizonte, Brazil (design of PGAA facility)
2007, 2008, 2009 Garching, FRM-II (improvement of the PGAA facility and experiments)
2009 BARC, Mumbai and IGCAR, Chennai, India (design of PGAA facility)
Teaching Activity
1985-1988 Veszprém University
1993 Nuclear metrology, 1 semester, (Veszprém University, together with G.L. Molnár)
1992-1994 special courses at the Physics Department of Veszprém University
1994-1996 participation in the PhD program at the Physics Dept. of VU
1996-1998 Lab. practices in nuclear analytical chemistry (Eötvös Iniversity, Budapest Technical University)
1999-2001 Radiochemistry courses (Budapest Technical University)
2000 Electron and Photon Physics course (Veszprém University)
2000-2003 PhD supervisor of Orsolya Demény (Veszprém University)
2001-2002 MS supervisor of two students (Budapest Technical University)
2002-2005 PhD supervisor of László Szentmiklósi (Budapest Technical University)
2004 education of IAEA trainees
2005 IAEA-ICTP Course in Neutron Activation Analysis (Trieste, Italy)
2008 Special course in the application of neutrons in material science (Eötvös University)
2010 Member of the PhD school of Pécs University
Scientific interests
Prompt gamma activation analysis
Gamma-ray spectrometry
Evaluation of nuclear data (k0, σγ)
Design and installation of neutron-beam facilities
Personal skill and competences
languages: English (upper intermediate), Russian, German (basic)
computer: advanced programming in Excel, Visual Basic, Mathematica, Origin
Publication record
publications: 102
independent citations: 430
Selected publications
1. Zs Révay: Determining Elemental Composition Using Propt Gamma Activation Analysis, Anal. Chem. 81 (2009) 6851.
2. Zs. Revay, T. Belgya, L. Szentmiklosi, Z. Kis, A. Wootsch, D. Teschner, M. Swoboda, R. Schlogl, J. Borsodi, R. Zepernick: In situ determination of hydrogen inside a catalytic reactor using prompt gamma activation analysis, Anal. Chem. 80 (2008) 6066.
3. D. Teschner, J. Borsodi, A. Wootsch, Zs. Révay, M. Hävecker, A. Knop-Gericke, S.D. Jackson, R. Schlögl: The Roles Of Subsurface Carbon And Hydrogen In Palladium-Catalyzed Alkyne Hydrogenation, Science, 320 (2008) 86.
4. D. Teschner, Zs. Révay, J. Borsodi, M. Hävecker, A. Knop-Gericke, R. Schlögl, D. Milroy, S. David Jackson, D. Torres, Ph. Sautet: Understanding Palladium Hydrogenation Catalysts: When the Nature of the Reactive Molecule Controls the Nature of the Catalyst Active Phase, Angew. Chem. 120 (2008) 9414.
5. Zs. Revay, R.K. Harrison, E. Alvarez, S.R. Biegalski, S Landsberger: Construction and characterization of the redesigned PGAA facility at The University of Texas at Austin, Nucl. Instr. and Meth. A 577 (2007) 611.
6. R. B. Firestone, A. West, J. P. Kennett, L. Becker, T. E. Bunch, Zs. Revay, P. H. Schultz, T. Belgya, D.J. Kennett, J.M. Erlandson, O.J. Dickenson, A.C. Goodyear, R.S. Harris, G.A. Howard, J.B. Kloosterman, P. Lechler, P.A. Mayewski, J. Montgomery, R. Poreda, T. Darrah, S.S.Q. Hee, A.R. Smitha, A. Stich, W. Topping, J.H. Wittke, W.S. Wolbach: Evidence for an extraterrestrial impact 12,900 years ago that contributed to the megafaunal extinctions and the Younger Dryas cooling, Proc. Nat. Acad. Sci. USA, 104/41 (2007) 16016.
7. Zs. Révay: In-beam Prompt Gamma Activation Analysis In: Encyclopedia of Analytical Chemistry (R.A. Meyers ed.) Wiley, 2009.
8. Zs. Révay, T. Belgya: Principles of PGAA method, in: Handbook of Prompt Gamma Activation Analysis with Neutron Beams, (G.L. Molnár ed.), Kluwer Academic Publishers, Dordrecht/Boston/New York, 2004, pp. 1-30.
9. T. Belgya, Zs Révay: Gamma-ray Spectrometry, in: Handbook of Prompt Gamma Activation Analysis with Neutron Beams, (G.L. Molnár ed.), Kluwer Academic Publishers, Dordrecht/Boston/New York, 2004 pp. 71-111.
10. Zs. Révay, R.B. Firestone, T. Belgya, G.L. Molnár: Catalog and Atlas of Prompt Gamma Rays in Handbook of Prompt Gamma Activation Analysis with Neutron Beams, (G.L. Molnár ed.), Kluwer Academic Publishers, Dordrecht/Boston/New York, 2004, pp. 173-364.