Erzsébet Takács
PERSONAL INFORMATION
Name: Takács Erzsébet
Address: 31 GALGÓCZY UTCA, 1125, BUDAPEST, HUNGARY
Telephone: +361 3922222/3131
Fax: +361 3922548
E-mail: takacs@iki.kfki.hu
Date of birth: 15, May, 1947
WORK EXPERIENCE
Dates: 1991 - present
• Name and address of employer: Institute of Isotopes HAS, Konkoly TM 29-33, 1121 Budapest, Hungary
• Type of business or sector: Research
• Occupation or position held: Scientific advisor
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Main activities and responsibilities:
Pulse radiolysis study of the kinetics of radiation
polymerization. Determination of the rate parameters of initiation,
propagation, and termination of radiation initiated polymerization of
acrylate and methacrylate type monomers. Radiation modification of
cellulose (degradation, grafting). Wastewater treatment by high energy
radiation. Radiation degradation of azo dyes in aqueous solution.
Radiation stability of polymers. Supervisor of 8 MSc theses and 4 PhD
theses. Number of publications: 90, Patents: 5, Number of SCI
citations: 250
Dates: 1971 - 1991
• Name and address of employer: Research Institute for Plastics, Budapest, Hungary
• Type of business or sector: Applied Research
• Occupation or position held: Senioe research fellow
• Main activities and responsibilities:
R+D activities: Project leader in research and development projects.
- Radiation induced synthesis of acrylamide based polymer gel encapsulated enzyme preparation. Optimization of the production parameters and the properties of the product. Technology development.
- Research and development on coating material for producing controlled release pharmaceutical products.
- Research and development on electron beam curable coating material for producing coated, weather resistant particle board panels.
- Radiation
degradation and stabilization of polymers.
EDUCATION AND TRAINING
Dates: 1966-1971
• Name and type of organisation providing education and training: Technical University of Budapest, Faculty of Chemical Engineering
• Principal subjects/occupational skills covered: Study of phase transitions in polymer-monomer two component systems
• Title of qualification awarded: Chemical engineer
SCIENTIFIC DEGREES
Date: 2005
• Name and type of organisation providing degree: Hungarian Academy of Sciences
•Title of thesis: Initial steps of high-energy radiation induced radical polymerization
• Title of scientific degree awarded: D.Sc.
Date: 1992
• Name and type of organisation providing degree: Hungarian Academy of Sciences
•Title of thesis: Radiation crosslinking in monomer sensitized systems
• Title of scientific degree awarded: C.Sc. (Candidate of chemical sciences).
Date: 1983
• Name and type of organisation providing degree: Technical University of Budapest, Faculty of Chemical Engineering
•Title of thesis: Microcalorimetric investigation of the polymerization of methacrylic monomers in PVC matrix
• Title of scientific degree awarded: dr
PERSONAL SKILLS AND COMPETENCES
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• MOTHER TONGUE: HUNGARIAN
• OTHER LANGUAGES
- ENGLISH
- Reading skills: excellent
- Writing skills: good
- Verbal skills: good
- GERMAN
- Reading skills: basic
- Writing skills: basic
- Verbal
skills: basic
- RUSSIAN
- Reading skills: basic
- Writing skills: basic
- Verbal skills: basic
Organizing international conferences:
- 8th and 9th “Tihany” Symposium on Radiation Chemistry, scientific secretary
- 10th “Tihany” Symposium on Radiation Chemistry, chair
- Leader of several IAEA and NSF (OTKA) projects
- Working Committee on Radiation Chemistry HAS, chairman, 2005-
- Memberships:
- Committee on Radiochemistry of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences
- Miller
trust
Skills in handling laboratory equipments:
- Fourier Transformed Infrared (FTIR) spectroscope
- High Performance Liquid Chromatograph (HPLC) with diode array detection;
- UV-VIS spectrophotometer
- Pulse radiolysis system (Linac electron accelerator with kinetic spectroscopic detection)
COMPUTER SKILLS
Microsoft office tools (skills): Word (good), PowerPoint (good), Excel (basic)
Microcal Origin
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