Péter Szalay#
| Membership Number: | 6143 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | CHEMICAL SCIENCES |
| Elected: | 2022 |
| Main Country of Residence: | HUNGARY |
| Homepage(s): | https://pgszalay.elte.hu/en/ |
| ORCID: | 0000-0003-1885-3557 |
| Linkedin: | https://www.linkedin.com/in/péter-g-szalay-665516233/ |
Present and Previous Positions
- 1986 - present ELTE Eötvös Loránd University, Institute of Chemistry, since 2004 full professor, 2005 - 2008 director of the Institute of Chemistry, 2015-2019 vice rector for research of ELTE
- 2023 - present President of the Hungarian Chemical Society
- 2010 - 2011 Visiting professor, University of Florida, Quantum Theory Project, Gainesville, FL, USA
- 2003 - 2004 Fulbright Fellow, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX, USA
- 1996 - 1997 Scientific research associate, Universität Mainz, Institut für Physikalische Chemie, Mainz, Germany
- 1991 - 1993 Postdoctoral associate, Quantum Theory Project at University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, USA
Fields of Scholarship
- Development of quantum chemical methods and programs
- Excited states of molecules
- Electronic structure theory
- Molecular spectroscopy
- Quantum chemistry
- Electron correlation
Honours and Awards
- 2019 Elected memeber of the International Academy of Quantum Molecular Sciences
- 2019 Elected memeber of the European Academy of Sciences and Arts
- 2017 Széchenyi Prize (together with Géza Fogarasi and Attila Császár) the most prestigious scientific award by the Hungarian State
- 2015 Polányi prize of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences
- 2010 "For the Hungarian Higher Education" Prize by the Department of Education
- 2003 Fulbright Fellow
