Prof. Zoltán Homonnay is a Professor of Chemistry at the Institute of Chemistry at Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest heading the Laboratory of Nuclear Chemistry. Dr. Homonnay received his Ph.D. degree in 1987 at the Eötvös Loránd University under the supervision of Academician Attila Vértes. He obtained a title Doctor of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences (analogous to D.Sc) from the Hungarian Academy of Sciences in 2000 and habilitated in 2001 at the Eötvös Loránd University. He spent two years (1989–1990) at Drexel University, Philadelphia, PA, USA, as a postdoctoral student working with Prof. Amar Nath. As a Humboldt Fellow, he spent six months at the Johannes Gutenberg Universität, working with Professor Philipp Gütlich, Mainz, Germany. He has been devoted to Mössbauer spectroscopy throughout his career so far. His activity has mostly been related to the chemical applications of the method including aluminum alloys, high-Tc superconductors, coordination chemistry, mineralogy, plant physiology, and nanosystems. In cooperation with his respected colleagues and many talented PhD students in Budapest, as well as with numerous Mössbauer spectroscopist colleagues in the world, he has published more than 250 papers in the field of Mössbauer spectroscopy so far.
Prof. Dr. Ernő Kuzmann is a Professor at Eötvös Loránd University. He obtained his Ph.D. in physics from Eötvös Loránd University in 1973. Dr. Kuzmann was a Monbusho fellow at Osaka University between 1978 and 1980. Between 1981 and 1984, he was a researcher at the Laboratory of Nuclear Reactions at the JINR in Dubna. He became a titular professor at Glasgow Caledonian University in 1996. He was a guest professor at the University of Brasília in the academic year 1996/1997. In 2003, he received his D.Sc. degree from the Hungarian Academy of Sciences (HAS) and also obtained the habilitation degree. In 2004, he became a full professor at Eötvös Loránd University. During his professorship at Eötvös University, Professor Kuzmann was appointed head of the Laboratory of Nuclear Chemistry at the Chemical Research Center of HAS in 2007. The areas of his research activity include the physics of alloys, high-temperature superconductors, heavy ion irradiation effects, coordination chemistry, surface chemistry and nanochemistry, corrosion studies, and chemical, biochemical, biological, mineralogical, and industrial applications of Mössbauer spectroscopy. He is the author/co-author of more than 650 scientific publications, including numerous monographs. Professor Kuzmann is a recipient of many prestigious national and international awards, e.g., The Academy Prize of HAS (2010) and the Hungarian Order of Merit (2021) donated by the President of Hungary.
Prof. Gyula Záray is a Professor at the Eötvös Loránd University. At the same time, he also works at the György Hevesy Doctoral School of Chemistry (core member), Doctoral School of Environmental Sciences (supervisor), Doctoral School of Pharmaceutical Sciences (academic staff member), and Doctoral School of University Semmelweis (academic staff member). He obtained his Ph.D. and D.Sc. in Chemistry in 1981 and 1995, respectively. His research areas are analytical chemistry atomic spectrometry (ICP-AES/MS, TXRF, AAS), the speciation (HPLC-ICP-MS) of environmental chemistry urban aerosols, and the chemical characterization of sewage, surface, and drinking water.
