Curriculum Vitae
Name: András Paszternák, PhD
Place and date of birth: Dunajská Streda(Slovakia), 1981
Employment history:
2015 – Center of Scientific Wonders (Budapest, Hungary)
science communication coordinator
2012 – 2015 Research Centre for Natural Sciences, Hungarian Academy of Sciences (Budapest, Hungary)
Institute of Materials and Enviromental Chemistry, Department of Interfaces and surface modification
research fellow (2012 – 2015)
2004 – 2011 Chemical Research Center, Hungarian Academy of Sciences (Budapest, Hungary)
Institute of Nanochemistry and Catalysis, Department of Surface Modification and Nanostructures,
Applied Electrochemistry Laboratory
research assistant (2004-2010), research fellow (2010-2011)
Postdoctoral fellowship:
June 2011 – September 2013 Bar-Ilan University (Ramat-Gan, Israel)
Department of Chemistry
Laboratory of nanomaterials on surfaces
Schools and qualifications:
2005 – 2008 Eötvös Loránd University, Faculty of Science, Ph. D. School, Chemistry
Section (Budapest, Hungary)
Ph.D. in Chemistry (Colloid Chemistry), grade: summa cum laude
/dissertation entitled: Formation and corrosion protective effect
of alkylphosphonate monolayers/, 2010
1999 – 2004 Eötvös Loránd University, Faculty of Science, (Budapest, Hungary)
Chemist, MSc.
2000–2004 Jewish Theological Seminary – University of Jewish Studies, Budapest,
Faculty of Rabbinical Studies (Budapest, Hungary)
Liturgical history , BSc.
1995 -1999 Selye János Secondary Grammar School (Komárno, Slovakia)
Professional experience:
2010 (2 days)
Swiss Foundation for Research in Microtechnology (FSRM) (Budapest, Hungary)
EuroTraining course: Microfluidics – Pipetting, Dispensig and Microarrays
2010 (2 days)
Budapest University of Technology and Economics & Research Institute for Technical
Physics and Materials Science (Budapest, Hungary)
EuroTraining course: Nanotechnology for Electronics
2009 (1 week)
Sensolytics GmbH/Ruhr Universität – Analytische Chemie-Elektroanalytik& Sensorik
(Bochum, Germany)
Preparation of shear force nanoelectrodes for SECM, course by Michaela Nebel
2007 (3 days)
Agilent Technologies, Inc., (Linz, Austria)
AFM/STM training course by Dr. Gerald Kada
2007 (1 week)
Technion – Israel Institute of Technology (Haifa, Israel)
MICROSTRUCTURE CHARACTERIZATION OF NANOSTRUCTURED FILMS/COATINGS
training course
2007 (1 week)
Universidad La Laguna (Tenerife, Spain)
SECM training course by Dr. Ricardo M. Souto
2006 (4 weeks)
Forschungszentrum Jülich – Institute of Bio- and Nanosystems 3. (Jülich, Germany),
STM training course by Prof. Thomas Wandlowski and Dr. GuiJin Su
2003 (5 weeks)
Research Institute for Fisheries, Aquaculture and Irrigation (Szarvas, Hungary)
Summer training course by Pál Szabó
Other studies:
2007 Yad Vashem – International School for Holocaust Studies
(Jerusalem, Israel)
Teacher Training Seminar for Educators
2005 Central European University Graduate School of Business
(Budapest, Hungary)
CEU MEDIA Course
2004 – 2005 Central European University Graduate School of Business, JDC
(Budapest, Hungary)
TNUFA– Leadership Center in Budapest, Young Professionals Program
Awards:
Poster Award of the Scientific Board – 6th Hungarian Conference and Exhibition on
Materials Science Testing and Informatics, Siófok, Hungary, 2007
Young Scientist Award at the Science Days of the Chemical Research Center of the
Hungarian Academy of Sciences in 2007
Voluntary activity:
2007 – The International NanoScience Community – http://www.nanopaprika.eu,
web based scientific social network with 4600+ members
founder
2000 – 2014 Lauder/Joint Jewish Youth Summer Camp (Szarvas, Hungary)
madrich -group leader (2000-2002),
unit-head (2003 – 2014)
1996 – MENHÁZ – Jewish Community Center (Komárno, Slovakia)
coordinator,
chief-editor of “Hitközségi Híradó – Spravodajca” newsletter
(ISSN 1337-091x)
Research interests:
– Self-assembled mono- and multilayers on metal surfaces
– AFM/STM studies
Command of languages:
English, German, Slovak and Hungarian
András Paszternák, PhD
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