Jenő Kürti

Jenő Kürti

full professor

PhD (Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest, 1982)

Habilitation (Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest, 1999)

Doctor of HAS (1999)

Department of Biological Physics

Room(s): Lágymányos Campus, Northern Building 3.77
Phone(s): +36-1-372-2754
Extension(s): +36-1-372-2500 / 6324
Homepage: regivirag.elte.hu
Email: uh.etle.gariv@itruk

Biography:

Personal data:
Born: 1954, Married in 1974, has two children

Education:
1978: Master's Degree in Physics (Eötvös University, Budapest, Hungary)
1982: Dr. rer. nat in Physics “summa cum laude” (Eötvös University, Budapest, Hungary)

Employment:
2000- Full professor at the Eötvös University Budapest, Dept. of Biological Physics
2000 Visiting professor at the Georgetown University (2 months)
1999 Visiting professor at the Georgetown University (1 month)
1998-2000 Associate professor at the Eötvös University Budapest, Dept. of Biol. Physics
1997 Visiting professor at the University of Vienna (4 months)
1991-98 Associate professor at the Eötvös University Budapest, Dept. of Atomic Physics
1991-92 Visiting scientist at the University of Vienna (1 year)
1986-87 Visiting scientist at the University of Vienna (1 year)
1983-91 Adjoint professor at the Eötvös University Budapest, Dept. of Atomic Physics
1978-83 Assistant professor at the Eötvös University Budapest, Dept. of Atomic Physics

Positions:
2015- Director of the Bolyai College, Eötvös University
2008-2011 Director of the Institute of Physics, Eötvös University
2006-2015 Head of the Department of Biological Physics, Eötvös University

Academic honors:
2018: Medal of the Loránd Eötvös Physical Society, Budapest
1999: Doctor (DSc) of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences (HAS)
1998-2001: Széchenyi Distinguished Professorship (Ministry of Education, Hungary)
1998: Habilitation: Eötvös University, Department of Physics
1997: Rezső Schmid Award (Loránd Eötvös Physical Society, Budapest)
1990: Candidate of Science in Physics, Hungarian Academy of Sciences (HAS)

Memberships, functions:
2015-2016 Vice president of the Roland Eötvös Physical Society, Hungary
2014- Member of the Doctoral Council of the HAS
2013-2016 President of the Habilitational Committe in Physics at Eötvös University
2012-2015 President of the Professoral Council in Physics at Eötvös University
2011-2015 Secretary general of the Roland Eötvös Physical Society, Hungary
2008- Head of one of the four PhD programs of the PhD school in physics of the Eötvös University
2007-2016 President of the Atomic and Molecular Physics Committee of the HAS
1994-2011 Member of the Management Committees of EU-COST D4, D14 and D35
1978- Member of the Roland Eötvös Physical Society, Hungary

Languages:
Hungarian, German, English, Russian

Publications:
More than 100 scientific publications, mostly in leading international journals (number of independent SCI citations is >2600 ). Regular referee at Physical Review, Physical Review Letters.

Research areas:
Raman spectroscopy and quantum chemistry of carbon nanostructures (conjugated polymers, fullerenes, carbon nanotubes, graphene)

Outside research support:
Since 1994, principal investigator of 10 scientific projects.

Links to associated scientific database profiles:

Selected publications of recent years:

  1. Preparing local strain patterns in graphene by atomic force microscope based indentation | Scientific Reports link
  2. The growth of new extended carbon nanophases from ferrocene inside single‐walled carbon nanotubes link
  3. Molecular Dynamics Simulation of Carbon Structures Inside Small Diameter Carbon Nanotubes link
  4. Phys. Rev. B 96, 075133 (2017) - Doped carbon nanotubes as a model system of biased graphene link
  5. Controlled Isotope Arrangement in 13C Enriched Carbon Nanotubes link
  6. Resonance Raman Optical Activity of Single Walled Chiral Carbon Nanotubes link
  7. Phys. Rev. B 92, 035150 (2015) - Towards improved exact exchange functionals relying on $GW$ quasiparticle methods for parametrization link
  8. Hydrocarbon chains and rings: bond length alternation in finite molecules | SpringerLink link
  9. I-band-like non-dispersive inter-shell interaction induced Raman lines in the D-band region of double-walled carbon nanotubes | SpringerLink link
  10. Toward Synthesis and Characterization of Unconventional C66 and C68 Fullerenes inside Carbon Nanotubes link