Curriculum Vitae – Péter Baranyai

Personal data

  • born in Budapest, Hungary, in 1969

Academic qualifications

  • Master’s Degree in chemistry, Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest, 1995
  • PhD in chemistry, Budapest University of Technology and Economics, 2003

Employment

  • 1995 – 2003: assistant research fellow, Chemical Research Center of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences
  • 2003 – : research fellow, Chemical Research Center of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences

Research experience

  • luminescence spectroscopy of gold(I) complexes
  • photophysics and photochemistry of photosensitisers, especially those related to photodynamic therapy
  • steady state and time resolved measurement of singlet molecular oxygen
  • effect of the microenvironment on photophysical processes
  • decay kinetics of triplet probes in phospholipid vesicles

Visits

  • Department of Biology, University of Padova, Italy, 1 month
  • Summer School of the European Photochemistry Association, Noordwijk, the Neatherlands
  • Institute of Theoretical Chemistry and Radiation Chemistry, University of Vienna, Austria, 3 months
  • Advanced Biophysics School on Lipid-Protein Interactions and the Organization of Membranes, Szeged, Hungary

Teaching experience

  • Physical chemistry calculations I-II
  • Electronics and instrumentation practice
  • Physical chemistry laboratory practice
  • Structural chemistry laboratory practice

Publications

  • 40 papers in international journals with more than 300 non-self citations