Hungarian grantees in 2004/20005


György Bacsa J.D.

  Institute: Eötvös Loránd University Budapest, Faculty of political and legal sciences
Department: Civil Law
Other organisational unit: legal counsel at MOL Hungarian Oil and Gas Plc.
Research topic: comparative trade and commercial law (secured transactions)
US location (city): provided later
US institute: provided later
E-mail: gybacsa@freemail.hu, gybacsa@mol.hu
Mobile phone: 06 30 9028548
Home page: under construction
Postal address: 2534 Tát, felszabadulás u. 4/A
Brief resume:
I was born in Esztergom in 1979, 1993-97 Temesvári Pelbárt Franciscan Grammar School, 1997-2003 ELTE, Law School, J.D. degree in 2003, 1998- member of Invisible College, 1998-2003 member of István Bibó College of Law,
2001-2002 University of Heidelberg, 2003-2004 LL.M. at the University of Heidelberg, 2003- Ph.D. at the ELTE, Law School

Tamás Mihály Böhm

  Institute: Budapest University of Technology and Economics
Department: Department of Telecommunications and Media Informatics
Other organisational unit: Laboratory of Speech Technology
Research topic
: speech processing and synthesis
US location (city): Cambridge (vicinity of Boston)
US institute: Massachusets Institute of Technology
E-mail: tbohm@tmit.bme.hu
Mobile phone: (30) 311-4939
Postal address: 1137 Bp. Katona József u. 23/a. (home)

Enikő Bollobás, Ph.D., Assoc. Prof., Chair

  Institute: Eötvös Loránd University
Department: Department of American Studies
Address: H-1146, Budapest, Ajtósi Dürer sor 19.
Phone: (36-1)-460-4416
Postal address: (home:) H-1026 Budapest Endrődi Sándor 39/b.
Phone: (36-1)-394-4428
Research topic: Literary Theory
US location (city): San Diego
US institute: UCSD

Ferenc Borondics

  Institute: Research Institute for Solid State Physics and Optics, Budapest
Department: Experimental Solid State Physics
Research topic: Preparation and spectroscopic investigation of functionalized carbon nanotubes and fullerene salts
US location (city): Riverside, California
US institute: University of California Riverside, Departments of Chemistry and Chemical & Environmental Engineering
E-mail: bf@szfki.hu
Mobile phone: (+36) 30/321-4397
Home page: www.szfki.hu/~bf
Postal address: P.O. Box 49, Budapest, Hungary H-1525 (If I'll know the postal address in the US, I will provide it)
Brief resume: visit my homepage for CV and publication list

Csongor Gedeon

  Institute: ELTE
Department: Dept. of Ethology
Research topic: behavioural and conservation biology of ground squirrels
US location (city): Flagstaff
US institute: Northern Arizona University
E-mail: csongor_gedeon@freemail.hu; (csongorg@ludens.elte.hu)
Mobile phone: 36 70 3303 878 until August
Postal address: 5 Viczián tanya, 2112 Veresegyház

Gyula Fekete

  Profession: Composer
Institution: Ferenc Liszt Musical Arts University
Title: Assistant professor
Phone: +36 269 5604 +36 30 562 7573
Address: 1066 Budapest Dessewffy u. 38

György Könczei

  Institute: ELTE BGGYFK
Department: Foglalkozasi Rehabilitacios Qtatocsoport
Research topic: Disability Economics
US location (city): NYC
US institute: CUNY, Brooklyn College
E-mail: gykonczei@hotmail.com
Postal address: ELTE BGGYFK 1097 Ecseri ut 3.
Phone: +36 1 358-5507
Brief resume:
EDUCATION, DEGREES
1998 DSc in Sociology, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest
1997 dr. Habil.
1989 CSc. (Sociology), Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest
1984 Doctorate in Philosophy, Karl Marx University of Economics
1982 MA (Economics); Karl Marx University of Economics,
1979-1982 Rajk László Special College, Budapest
1977-1982 Karl Marx University of Economics, Budapest.
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
2001- Professor, Dean: EÖTVÖS LORÁND UNIVERSITY, Gusztáv Bárczi College of Special Education
1998-2000 Professor, Budapest University of Economics, European Studies Center
1997-1998 Ministerial Chief Adviser (part time), Cabinet of the Minister, Ministry of Welfare;
responsibilities:
Bill on the Rights and Equal Opportunities of People with Disabilities - adopted by Parliament of Hungarian Republic: March 16, 98
preparation of the ratification of the European Social Charter (Council of Europe, Strasbourg) - adopted by Parliament of Hungarian Republic June 1, 1999
1994-1996 Program Director, SOROS Foundation, Health Care System Development Program

Géza Kállay

  > > Tel: (36-1)-31-91-566
> > Cellular: (06)-30-488-82-45
Institute: School of English and American Studies, Eötvös Loránd University,
Address: H-1146, Budapest, Ajtósi Dürer sor 19.
Department: Department of English Studies
Research topic: literarture and philosophy, Shakespeare, Renaissance and Jacobean English literature, literary theory, East-European and Hungarian literature in English
US location (city): [DESTINATION with whole family, Sept. 2004 -- June 2005]: Santa Cruz, CA, USA
US institute: UCSC (University of California at Santa Cruz, Department of Literature and Department of Philosophy)
E-mail: kallay@melania.hu
Mobile phone: 06-30-488-82-45 (not available after 1 September, 2004!)
Home page: www.gezakallay.hu
Postal address: H-1124, Budapest, Zólyom lépcso 19. I. 1.
Phone: (36-1)-460-4400/ext.4475
Fax: (36-1)-460-4422
Address: (home:) H-1124, Budapest Zólyom lépcso 19
Phone: (36-1)-31-91-566
Brief resume:
GÉZA KÁLLAY (b. 1959) is Reader (fully tenured Associate Professor) at the Department of English Studies and currently he is the director of the School of English and American Studies at Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest. He got his MAs at the same university in Hungarian, English and General and Applied Linguistics in 1984. In the September of 1991 he got the "dr. univ." degree at Eötvös University, in the academic year 1991/92 he was a Soros research-fellow at the Catholic University of Leuven, Belgium, where he defended his Ph.D. "summa cum laude" in 1996. In 1993/94, he was a grant-holder of the Research Support Scheme of the Central European University and the Open Society Institute, in the spring of 1995 he was a visiting Fulbright-scholar at Harvard University, working with Professor Stanley Cavell. In 1999 he was awarded the "Bolyai" Research Scholarship by the Hungarian Academy of Sciences for three years. He went through the "habilitation process" in 2003 with the result "100%". Dr. Kállay's research includes the relationship between literature and philosophy, Elizabethan and Jacobean English literature (primarily Shakespeare), literary theory and Central and Eastern European literature. He has written more than 50 articles in these fields in Hungarian and in English, and has published three books, all with Liget Publishers, Budapest in 1996, 1999, and 2002. His fourth book, also with Liget, is forthcoming in 2004. Dr. Kállay is a Fulbright alumnus, member of the European Society of the Study of English and also teaches in the Postgraduate Programs of his home-department. His wife, Dr. Katalin G. Kállay, teaches American literature at Károli Gáspár University. They have three daughters: Zsuzsanna was born in 1989, Eszter in 1994 and Mária in 1995.

Dávid Karátson

  Institute: Eötvös University
Department: Physical Geography
Research topic: volcanology, volcanic geomorphology
US location (city): Flagstaff, AZ
US institute: Northern Arizona University
E-mail: dkarat@ludens.elte.hu
Mobile phone: 06 30 5695161
Home page: http://geogr.elte.hu/vulkanologia/
Postal address: H-1117 Budapest, Pázmány s. 1/C, HUNGARY
Brief resume:
1989: MSC in geography, biology and geomorphology
1995: PhD in earth sciences
1997: JSPS grant in Japan
1998-2000: Magyary postdoctoral fellow
1998-2001: assistant professor at ELTE
1999- Erasmus cooperation with the University of Pisa, Italy
2000: Scholarship of the French Cultural Institute in Clermont-Ferrand, France
2001-2002: DAAD in Tübingen (bilateral university cooperation)
2001- associate professor at ELTE
2001-2003: Bolyai postdoctoral fellow

Dániel Kiss

Institute: Technical University Budapest
Department: Architecture
US location (city): Cambridge, MA
US institute: Harvard Graduate School of Design
Program: M.Arch.II.
E-mail: kiss.daniel at gmx.net
Mobile phone: +36.20.9728628

Marianne Nikolov

 

  Institute: University of Pecs
Department: Department of English Applied Linguistics
Research topic: Second Language Acquisition, Language Pedagogy, Assessment
US location (city): San Francisco, CA
US institute: Univiversity of California at Berkeley
E-mail: nikolov@nostromo.pte.hu
Mobile phone:20 9518954 (not available until 1 June)
Home page: www.pte.hu/btk/AngolAlkalmazottNyelveszetiTanszek
Postal address: 7624 Pecs Ifjusag u. 6.

Laszlo Rosivall M:D:

  Institute:
Hungarian Academy of Sciences and
Semmelweis University
Nephrology Research Group
Institute of Pathophysiology
Faculty of Medicine
Semmelweis University
Research topic: renal physiology and pathophysiology
US location (city): Birmingham and San Diego
US institute: UAB ( Univ of Alabama in Birmingham ) and USC ( Univ of S. California
E-mail: rosivall@net.sote.hu
Postal address: 1089 Nagyvarad ter 4. H-1089, Hungary

János Sipos, PhD

  Institute: Institute for Musicology, Hungarian Academy of Sciences
Department: Ethnomusicology
Research topic: Comparative research on the folk music of Turkic people
US location (city): Los Angeles
US institute: UCLA (University of California Los Angeles)
E-mail: janos.sipos@ella.hu
Mobile phone: +36-20-250-77-61
Postal address: 1121 Budapest, Költő u. 1
Other contact information: 1014 Budapest, Táncsics M. u. 7., Institute for Musicology

Róbert Szalai

  Current contact information until 10 July:
Institute: University Of Bristol
Department: Department of Engineering Mathematics,
Address: Queen's Building Rm. 1.27, University Walk, Bristol, BS8 1TR, United Kingdom
Phone: +44 (0) 117 33 17069
Home phone: +44 (0) 870 77 55290
E-mail: r.szalai@bris.ac.uk
Home page: http://www.mm.bme.hu/~szalai
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Institute: Budapest University of technology and Economics
Department: Department of Applied Mechanics
Research topic: Machine tool vibrations (Time-periodic) delay differential equations Nonlinear dynamics and chaos
US location (city): 77 Massachusetts Ave, Cambridge, MA 02139
US institute: Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Mechanical Engineering
E-mail: szalai@mm.bme.hu, r.szalai@bris.ac.uk
Mobile phone: (20) 490 58 24
Postal address: BME Muszaki Mechanikai Tanszek H-1521 Budapest, P.O. Box 91.
Brief resume:
Position:
2004 Visiting Fellow at the University of Bristol, Department of Engineering Mathematics
Education:
2002- PhD student at the Dept. of Applied Mechanics BUTE, topic:
Quasiperiodic and chaotic motions in dynamical systems
Supervisor: Prof. Gábor Stépán
2002 MSc in Mechanical Engineering
1997-2002 undergraduate studies, Budapest University of Technology and Economics
Honors and Awards:
2004 Hungarian Eotvos Scholarship
2003 Pro Scientia Goldmedal
2003 1st prize at the National Students' Scientific Competition
2002 SOCRATES/ERAMUS scholarship (University of Bristol)
2001-2002 Distinguished scholarship of the Hungarian Republic (Ministry of Education)
2001 1st prize at the Students' Scientific Competition (BUTE)
2000-2002 Scholarship of the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering

Róbert Péter

  Institute: Institute of English and American Studies, University of Szeged
Department: English Department
Research topic: 17-18th British religious history, freemasonry
US location (city): Tallahassee, Florida
US institute: Institute for the Study of Religion, Florida State University
E-mail: rpeter@lit.u-szeged.hu
Postal address: Institute of English and American Studies, University of
Szeged, 6722 Szeged, Egyetem u. 2

Brief Resume:
2003 Sept-: teaching assistant, Institute of English and American Studies, University of Szeged
2002/2003: Predoctoral Scholarship of the University of Szeged
1999-2002: PhD candidate. Doctoral School of English and American Literatures and Cultures, Szeged
2000. Sept-Dec. Individual study and research. University of London, British Library
2000-: Master course in theology, Theological College, Szeged
1994-2000: MSc in Mathematics. University of Szeged
1994-1999: MA in English language and literature, József Attila University, Szeged
1999: Student Nationwide Scholarly Competition (OTDK). Section: History and Theory of Religion. Second Prize
1997/1998: Oxford University. Individual Study. MA thesis produced for the University of Szeged
Research in the Bodleian Library, Oxford in August, 2001 and July, 1999

Anna Vörös

  Institute: Teacher Training Faculty, ELTE / Tanító- és Óvóképző Főiskolai Kar
Department: Department of Education / Neveléstudományi Tanszék
Research topic: educational psychology
US location (city): Pittsburgh, PA
US institute: University of Pittsburgh
E-mail: sarosdia@kincsem.tofk.elte.hu
Postal address: 1126 Budapest, Kiss János altábornagy u. 40.
Brief resume:
Education:
1999 - PhD studies at Doctoral School of Psychology, (specialization
programme: Socialization and Social Processes) 2000 MA in English Language and Literature, ELTE. (Thesis: A Stylistic Analysis of Children's Novels)
1999 MA in Psychology, ELTE. Specialization: Developmental psychology and school psychology. (Thesis: Teachers' Burnout and Conflict Resolution Strategies)
Work experience:
1999 - Assistant professor at the Teacher Training Faculty of Eötvös Loránd University
1998 - 2000 Kindergarten psychologist
Research interest:
Classroom interactions in elementary schools and kindergartens; teachers' interpersonal behaviour

Miklós Vázsonyi

 
Institute: Budapest University of Technology and Economics
Faculty: Faculty of Economical and Social Sciences
Department: Information and Knowledge Management Department
Mobile phone: +36 20 9 803 704
E-mail:
Home page: http://miklos.vazsonyi.com
Postal address:
H-1077 Budapest, Rottenbiller u. 1. II/12. Hungary
US location (city)
: Pittsburgh, PA
US institute: Carnegie Mellon University, Tepper Shcool of Business and Center for Automated Learning and Discovery
Research topic: Applied artificial intelligence in business environment (esp. data and text mining)
Brief resume:
2002-~2005
Budapest University of Technology and Economics
Engineering and Management PhD. School, Full-time Course
Major: Knowledge Based Decision Support, Applied Artificial Intelligence
2001-2003
Budapest University of Technology and Economics
Banking Informatics Postgraduate School, Full-time Course
1997-2002
Budapest University of Technology and Economics
Engineering and Management Course, Full-time Course
2003: National Scientific Student Conference 1st prize, Management section
Topic: Measuring the Organizational Intangible Wealth
2000: Tournament in Management and Engineering Sciences, Warsava, 3rd place
From February 2003: Dorsum Ltd. Junior Development Consultant, Business Analyst
May 2001 – July 2002: KPMG Consulting Budapest Office, Junior Consultant (SAP, BPR, BSC)