BÉLA CSÁKVÁRI
    professor emeritus

Eötvös Loránd University Department of General and Inorganic Chemistry Pázmány Péter sétány 1/A. 1117 - Budapest Hungary   e-mail: csakvari@chem.elte.hu phone: +36-1-209-0555 fax: +36-1-209-0602

Professional History

• Date of Birth: May 30, 1924., Stari Vrbas, Yugoslavia
• Knowledge of languages: English, French, German, Croatian, Russian, Serbian
• M.Sc. Chemistry, Eötvös Loránd University, 1950
• Assistant Research Fellow, Eötvös Loránd University, 1950-1953
• Assistant Professor, Eötvös Loránd University, 1954-61
• Ph.D.Chemistry, Eötvös Loránd University, 1960
• Associate Professor, Eötvös Loránd University, 1962-69
• D.Sc. Hungarian Academy of Sciences, 1969
• Full Professor, Eötvös Loránd University, 1970-95
• Head of Department, Department of General and Inorganic Chemistry, 1966-95
• Head of the Ph.D. Program in Chemistry at Eötvös Loránd University involving research specialization in the major areas  of chemistry, 1993-97
• Head of the Ph.D. Program in Molecular Structure and Modelling at Eötvös Loránd University, 1993-2000

Research Experience

• Theory of glass electrode, application of glass electrodes as selective sensors in chemical analysis.
• Inorganic chemistry, Organometallic chemistry, Stereochemistry and preparativ chemistry of inorganic and organometallic compounds, Research strategy and instrumentation.

Publications

• More than 120 papers in international and Hungarian journals, several books for high schools and university educations, for advanced inorganic preparative chemistry, stereochemistry and other special topics (in Hungarian).

Teaching

    Undergraduate:

• Analytical chemistry, 1950-1954
• Inorganic Chemistry, 1955-1999;
• Chimie Minerale (BME Filier Francophone, in French), 1995-97.
• Advanced inorganic preparativ laboratory, 1957-65,
• Inorganic chemistry  1951-1999

    Graduate:

• Advanced inorganic and stereochemistry, 1993-
• Cluster chemistry, 1995-

    Thesis and Dissertation directed:

• In the period of 1965-2000 an average of two M.S. per year, and 1-2 Ph.D. per year.

Visiting professor

• 1954 -Lomonosov Univ.Moscow, Univ.Leningrad
• 1955 - Univ.Graz, Univ.Jena,
• 1960 - Univ.Liege, Univ. Sorbonne
• 1962 - Lomonosov Univ.Moscow, Univ.Beograd, Univ.Zagreb
• 1964 - Univ.Leningrad
• 1968 - Univ.Brussels
• 1990 � ETH Zürich, Univ.Zürich, Univ. Lausanne.

Editorial work

• Member of the editorial bord of the periodical "Hung.Sci.Instruments"
• Editor  of  the periodical of the Chem. Sect. of the Hung. Acad. of  Sciences (Kémiai Közlemények) from 1964-.
• Editor of  book-serie  -  "New Results in Chemistry" -  of the Chem. Sect. of the Hung. Acad. of  Sciences (A kémia újabb eredményei) from 1970-.

Research Policy

• Head of the Committee of Instrumentation of Eötvös Loránd University, 1972-1985
• Member of the Committee of Instrumentation at the Ministry of Education, 1972-1988
• Member of the State Committee of the Science Policy , 1990-1994
• Member of the Committees of HAS "Physical and Inorganic Chemistry"of  " Technological Chemistry" (1966-1985) of  "Inorganic and Organometallic Chemistry"(1990-  )
• Republika Hrvatska, Ministry of Science and Technologie referee for new scientific projects, (1998- ).
• Chairman of the trusteeship board of  the Chance for Education Public Foundation (to give financial help for the students in higher education), 1999-2004.