András Kristóf Perczel#
| Membership Number: | 3363 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | CHEMICAL SCIENCES |
| Elected: | 2012 |
| Main Country of Residence: | HUNGARY |
| Homepage(s): | http://www.chem.elte.hu/departments/protnmr |
Present and Previous Positions
- 2007- Head of the Department of Organic Chemistry, Inst. Of Chemistry, ELTE (Eötvös Loránd University)
- 2001- Professor at the Dep. of Chemistry, Inst. Of Chemistry, ELTE
- 1998-2001: Research Professor at the Dep. of Chem., Inst. Of Chemistry, ELTE
- 1996-1998: Research associate prof. at the Dep. of Chem., Inst. Of Chemistry, ELTE
- 1995-1996: Research fellow, Dep. of Biochemistry, Oxford Univ., UK
- 1993-1995: Research associate at the Dep. of Chem., Inst. Of Chemistry, ELTE
- 1992-1994: NSERC. Post doc. Fellow at the Dep. of Chem., Univ. of Toronto, Canada
- 1989-1992: Post. Doc. Fellow at the Dep. of Biochemistry, Brandeis Univ., Massachusetts USA
- 1985-1988: Fellow of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences (PhD student)
Fields of Scholarship
- Synthetic chemistry of peptide and glycopeptides
- Protein expression and purification
- Bio-spectroscopy including ECD, IR spectroscopy
- A wide range of solution-state NMR techniques
- Structure elucidation of alpha- and beta peptides, foldamers, miniproteins, structured- and unstructured proteins
- Dynamic characterization of peptides and proteins
- Molecular modeling including MM, MD QM/MM and various QM and ab initio methods
Honours and Awards
- 2011: Bolyai Prize (one of the highest scientific awards in Hungary, with only 5 laureates until today)
- 2010: elected member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences
- 2006: Fulbright fellowship
- 2004: Scientist of the year, Sanofi-Synthelabo
- 1998-2002: Széchenyi Professorship, Hungary
- 1997: Scientific Award (1st price), Faculty of Science, Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest
- 1996: Zemplén Géza award (Hungarian Academy of Sciences)
- 1993 and 1995: Pro Scientia Gold Medal, Hungarian Academy of Sciences
