Sándor Tóth, Ph.D.

Education

•   Ph.D., Physics, Budapest University of Technology and Economics, 2010
•   M.Sc., Mechanical Engineering, Budapest University of Technology and Economics, 2005
•   B.Sc., Mechanical Engineering, University of Szeged, 2002

Employment

• Budapest University of Technology and Economics, Institute of Nuclear Techniques
  • Assistant Professor, 2011 -
  • Teaching Assistant, 2008 - 2010
  • Ph.D. Student, 2005 - 2008                 

Research Interests

• Thermal hydraulics of VVER, PWR and GFR fuel assemblies
• Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) and its applications in nuclear reactor safety
• Turbulent mixing, flow oscillation

Teaching

• Introduction to CFD Methods (BMETE80AE25, BMETE80AF22) 
• CFD Methods & Applications (BMETE80ME10, BMETE80MF36)
• Fundamentals of Nuclear Engineering, thermal hydraulic part (BMETE80AE01)
• Supervision of theses

Other Professional Activities

• Member of the Expert Group of the Hungarian Sustainable Nuclear Energy Technology Platform
• Review services

Languages

• Hungarian (mother tongue)
• English
• German

Work:

Education:

Courses: 

• 2006 World Nuclear University Summer Institute 2006, Stockholm, Sweden (6 weeks)
• 2004 Experimental fusion training summer school (SUMTRAIC-2004)
• CASTOR tokamak, Prague, Czech Republic (2 weeks)
• 2001 Workshop on accelerator driven systems organized by the IAEA
• International Center for Theoretical Physics (ICTP) Trieste, Italy (3 weeks)

Languages:

• Hungarian: mother tongue,
• English: fluent, French: elementary

Computer skills:

• general computer skills with Windows and Linux systems
• scientific application programming in FORTRAN, C, Pascal, BASIC, MATLAB

Technical skills: 

advanced exam for health-physics specialists (licence to work with radiation sources)

Membership:

Awards:

2014: Fermi Young Researcher's Award of the Hungarian Nuclear Society

Scientific Curriculum Vitea

Dr. Csaba Sükösd

associate professor 
Budapest University of Technology and Economics (BME)
Department of Nuclear Techniques

Place and date of birth:

Budapest, 1947. April 20.

Higher education:

diplome physicist, Eötvös Univ. Faculty of Natural Sciences 1966 - 1971

Scientific grade:

• Candidate of Physical Sciences (PhD)  Hungarian Academy of Sciences 1983
• Doctor of University Eötvös Univ.  Faculty of Natural Sciences 1975

Language skills:

French, German, English.

Actual assignment:

• assoc. professor, BME Dept. of Nuclear Techniques 1992-
• deputy director BME Institute of Nuclear Techniques 1994-

Previous assignments:

• head of department, BME Dept. of Nuclear Techniques (1998-2011)
• vice dean BME Faculty of Natural Sciences (1998-2007)
• assoc. prof. BME Institute of Nuclear Techniques (1992-  )
• assoc. prof. Eötvös Univ. Dept. of Atomic Physics (1984-1992)
• lecturer Eötvös Univ. Dept. of Atomic Physics (1975-1983)
• assistant Eötvös Univ. Dept. of Atomic Physics (1971-1974)

Experiences abroad:

Honours:

• "Professor of Excellence of the Faculty" BME Faculty of Natural Sciences (2007)
• "Educators' Dolphin Award" (2007)
• "Széchenyi Award for Professors" (1999-2003)
• "Educator of Excellence" (1977)
• "Award for the Higher Education Studies" (1971)

Professional activities

• Experimental nuclear physics, neutron physics, fission, nuclear reactions, giant resonances
• Radioactive ion beams, nuclear astrophysics,
• Environmental radiations, radon.

Earlier (before 1992):

• Experimental atom- and molecular physics,
• Elektronspin-resonance,
• High temperature superconductors.   

Memberships and functions in professional societies:

• Secretary of the Nuclear Physics Division of the Roland Eötvös Physical Society (1986-1991), 
• Member of the Nuclear Physics subcommittee of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences (1990-93)
• Member of the Hungarian National Committee of IRPA (1991- 93)
• Secretary of the Hungarian Nuclear Society (1992-94)
• Member of the Steering Committee of the Hungarian Nuclear Society (1998-2001)
• President of the Hungarian Nuclear Society (2004-2007)
• Member of the Information Committee of the European Nuclear Society /ENS/ (1994-2002) 
• Vice-president of the Roland Eötvös Physical Society (1996-1998, 2006-)
• Secretary of the Hungarian Pugwash Committee (1997-2000)
• Member of the Radiation- and Environmental Protection Committee of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences (1997-)
• President of the Budapest Science Center (Csodák Palotája) steering committee (1998-2003)
• Head of the National Leo Szilárd Physics Competition team (2003- )
• Editorial member of the "Fizikai Szemle" (1998 - )
• Member of the Board of Governors of the "European Nuclear Education Network (ENEN) Association" (2003- )

Educational activities

Lectures:

• nuclear physics, nuclear techniques for students of physics and physics teachers of  Eötvös University (1972-92),
• atom- and molecular physics, for students of physics teachers of  Eötvös University (1985-93)
• special lectures of nuclear physicsl, nuclear techniques, nuclear energy and radiation protectionl (1973-92), 
• Nuclear physics and nuclear techniques BME in English 1992, 
• Nuclear- and  Particle Physics I. BME engineering physicsist ,1992- 
• Modern Nuclear Methods BME engineering physicsist, 1992- (together with other colleagues)
• Nuclear Specialisation Seminars BME engineering physicsist 1992- 
• Radiological Techniques BME-SOTE for students of Biomedical Engineering 1994-2006 (together with other colleagues) 
• Nuclear Physics BME MSc. and PhD courses in English 1994-1998 
• Radiation Physics BME MSc. and PhD courses in English 1997-2003
• Nuclear- and neutron physics BME Energy Enginnering BSc 2006- 
• Basics of Environmental Protection BME BSc in Physics 2007-
• Nuclear disarmement BME general  2000-  (together with other colleagues)

Laboratories:

• Nuclear Physics laboratory ELTE physicists 1972-1992, 
• Nuclear Physics laboratory ELTE physics teachers 1985-2003 
• Electronics laboratory ELTE geohysicists, biologists and geosciences  (1972-1988), 
• Reactor physics lab.  BME English course 1993, 
• Advanced level laboratory. ELTE physicists 1995-2003

Continuing education:

• Organisation and leading regular continuing education courses in nuclear physics and radiation protection for high school physics teachers (1985-2000) 
• Development of physics curriculum and leading the physics courses for postgraduate courses in human ecology (1989-1998) 
• Main Hungarian contractor and coordinator of a TEMPUS project aiming the establishment and operation of a high level laboratory in Information and Communication Technology in Eötvös University,(1991-1993).
• Organisation and leading the annual Hungarian Teachers Program in CERN (2006- )

E-mail:  sukosd(at)reak.bme.hu

Dr. G. Por

Curriculum Vitae

Surname: Por
First name: Gabor

Born:

Budapest, February 14, 1948

Nationality:

Hungarian

Married:

Olga Berezina, Children: Julia(27), Peter (23), Daniel (7)

Educational process:

• Secondary School 1962-66, Budapest, Hungary
• St. Petersburg State University (Russia), 1966-1972
  • graduated in Physics (Solid State Physics) M. Sc. 1972
  • graduated in Applied Mathematics (computing) BSc. 1972
• Roland Eotvos University Budapest (Hungary), 1976, PhD in Nuclear Physics (reactor physics)
• Hungarian Academy of Sciences, 1986, Candidate of Sci. (Physics)
• Political High School of Budapest, 1989,
  • graduated in Industrial Policy M.Sc.
• Still Learning in College of Finance and Accountancy

Language skill

• Fluency in English and Russian (also in writing)
  • Russian: Approved high degree state examination (graduated in Russia)
  • English: Approved medium level state examination in 1976, with a follow up exam in 1992
• Others: reading and understanding in German.

Main experiences:

Research reactors, critical assembly experiment; Noise diagnostics in nuclear power plants; fluctuation analysis, fusion diagnostics, Loose Parts monitoring systems from basics till producing and selling from a small company /APandSD Ltd/, diagnostics in industry; management practice in industry oriented computerised data systems; teaching at university and colleges.

Professional records (Employment):

Present positions:

Secondary occupation:

Manager in a small size company Ltd.

Most important achievements:

Publications (see also attached list)

• 76 papers in periodicals and proceedings
• 4 dissertations
• contribution to a reviewing book in noise diagnostics

Technical systems (this activity includes a whole process from scientific basis to innovation to fully working systems):

• KARD a reactor noise diagnostics system for Kalinin NPP (Russia),
• CARD (two) reactor noise diagnostics systems for Paks NPP (Russia),
• KAZMER project manager of complex noise system for Kalinin NPP(Russia)
• HELPS, Hungarian Loose Parts monitoring System for Paks NPP (Hungary)
• ALPS (Advanced Loose Part System) sold for Paks NPP (four Units, Hungary) by APandSD Ltd.

Heading the work of a research reactor operation including all aspects(1992-1995)

Teaching at University and College (1992-):

• Lessons and practice in noise and industrial diagnostics,
• introducing data collection system for training reactor,
• lessons in physics (heat transfer and optics), electronics, physics, technical physics
• Nuclear Reactor I&C lessons
• Eu projects for teaching
• Supervising fusion PhD students in diagnostics

Working in development of international nuclear engineering education in the frame of ENEN Association of EU-FP5 project and NEPTUNO projects of FP6 (2000-2004)

Managing a research group for fusion diagnostics at Institute of Nuclear Techniques since 2000.

Recorded expert of the International Atomic Energy Agency, having missions: China (1993), Slovakia (1995, 1998), Ghana (1996, 1998), and Iran (1997,2006), Russia(2003)

Memberships:

• European Nuclear Society,
• Hungarian Nuclear Society,
• Hungarian Energy Association,
• Hungarian Teacher’s Association.

Budapest, 10/01/2007

Dr. Gabor POR

Spoken languages:

Hungarian mother tongue, English fluent, German basic 

Present work address:

Budapest University of Technology and Economics (BME)
Institute of Nuclear Techniques (NTI)
Műegyetem rakpart 9, Budapest, Hungary H-1111

Studies:

Research activity:

• Radiation damage measurement in video cameras
• Gamma and neutron field measurements in fission reactor

Computer skills:

• MATLAB programming, advanced
• C programming, advanced
• IDL programming, basic
• MCNP modeling, advanced

Visits and working experience:

• 2010 February: High speed Photron SA camera system installation, and software development for two weeks at AUX tokamak, Garching, Germany
• 2010-12: Organizer and supervisor of the Hungarian physics students on a professional practice for one week in Slovakia
• 2012 May: High speed Photron SA camera and a new control software installation for two weeks at AUX tokamak, Garching, Germany

Teaching experiments:

• Teaching electronics laboratory course for 3th year  physics students for two semesters at BME,
• Teaching physics laboratory for 3th year physics students (Delayed neutron property measurement and Thermal neutron flux measurement) for one semester at BME
• Teaching physics laboratory for Slovak physics students (Delayed neutron property measurement and Thermal neutron flux measurement) at BME in a student exchange program with the STU for two semesters
• Teaching Thermal neutron flux measurement for Vietnamese participants of the HUVINETT 2012 program at BME.

Awards:

• Honourable Mention, BME Conference of Scientific Students, 2009, Budapest

Memberships:

• Member of the Hungarian Nuclear Society (MNT), member of the management of theYoung Generation expert group since 2010
• Member of the János Bolyai Mathematical Society since 2012

Interests:

Drumming, cooking

Conferences:

• Hungarian Plasma Physics and Fusion Technology Workshop, march 26-28 2008, Győr, Hungary
• 13^th RD50 - Workshop On Radiation Hard Semiconductor Devices For Very High Luminosity Colliders, CERN, November 10-12 2008, Geneva, Switzerland
• BME Conference of Scientific Students, November 18 2009, Budapest, Hungary
• The Fifth Hungarian Plasma Physics and Fusion Technology Workshop, April 26-28 2010 Dobogókő, Hungary
• 9^th Symposium on Nuclear Technology, December 2-3 2010, Paks, Hungary
• First European PhD Event on Fusion Science and Technology, October 13 and 14, 2011, Garching, Germany
• 10^th Symposium on Nuclear Technology, December 2-3 2011 Budapest, Hungary
• The Fifth Hungarian Plasma Physics and Fusion Technology Workshop, April 2-4 2012 Tata, Hungary
• Second European PhD Event on Fusion Science and Technology, October 22-25, 2012, Pont-á-Mousson, France

Conference proceedings:

• G. Náfrádi, G. Pór, D. Bódizs, Sz. Czifrus, G. Kocsis, K. Nagy, J. Pálfalvi, T. Pázmándi, A. Szappanos, S. Zoletnik (ed.)Radiation Damage in Video diagnostic devices for Wendelstein 7-X stellarator 2008. 4 p.(europhysics conference abstracts; Vol 32D P 5.079.)
• G. Náfrádi, G. Kocsis, T. Szabolics, T. Szepesi Photron FASTCAM SA5 control software development for fusion plasma measurements. PhD Conference of the Doctoral School for Physics: organised by the Doctoral School of Physics of the Faculty of Natural Sciences Budapest University of Technology and Economics, in the framework of TÁMOP-4.2.2/B-10/1-2010-0009. Budapest, Magyarország, 2012.06.22. (ISBN: 978-963-313-065-0)
• G. Kocsis, T. Craciunescu, G. Cseh, P.T. Lang, G. Náfrádi, B. Plöckl, T. Szepesi and ASDEX Upgrade Team, Investigation of the pellet cloud radiation dynamics at ASDEX Upgrade, 2013 40th EPS conference on Plasma Physics

Talks:

• Radiation Damage of Video Device in a Fusion Stellarator, 13th RD50 - Workshop On Radiation Hard Semiconductor Devices For Very High Luminosity Colliders, CERN, November 10-12 2008, Geneva, Switzerland
• High gamma dose rate irradiations at the BME training reactor,  X. MNT Symposium on Nuclear Technology December 2-3  2011, Budapest, Hungary
• Neutron spectra measurement with BTI-BDS bubble detectors at the BME training reactor, IX. MNT Symposium on Nuclear Technology December 2-3 2010, Paks, Hungary
• EDICAM Gamma Irradiation and Results, Second European PhD Event on Fusion Science and Technology, October 22-25, 2012, Pont-á-Mousson, France

Online list of Publications:

http://mycite.omikk.bme.hu/search/slist.php?lang=0&AuthorID=10010122

Employment and Activities:

• June 2008- 
  Budapest University of Technology and Economics, full position for grounding Medical Physics research and education
• January 2006-january 2008:
  Post-doctoral position, Forschungszentrum Dresden-Rossendorf, Germany
• September 2005-January 2006:
  Research grant, Safety Research Institute Forschungszentrum Rossendorf, Germany
• November 2000-June 2005:
  PhD studies at the Faculty of Technische Natuurwetenschappen, Physics of Nuclear Reactors group,  Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands; on the topic of  “The Time Dependent Monte Carlo Midway Method with Application to Borehole Logging”
• December 2003- April 2004:
  Free Research, Funded by the System International Foundation (Hungary), on unpaid leave from Delft University

Studies:

Languages:

• Hungarian (mother tongue)
• Fluent English  (Cambridge Advanced English, 2008)
• Fluent German (Goethe Zertifikat C1, 2008)
• Dutch (~B2)
• Arabic (~A2)

Computer related:

Fortran 90, C++, html, php, MS Office, Adobe Photoshop, Premiere

Hobbies/ Non-Professional Interests:

Creative writing, photography, classical guitar, Arabic language, chess, Tango Argentino

Birthplace, date:

Székesfehérvár, 28/07/1986

Studies:

• High school: Tóparti Gimnázium és Művészeti Szakközépiskola, 2001–2005, Székesfehérvár
• University: BUTE Faculty of Natural Sciences, major in Engineering-physics, M.Sc in Engineering-Physicists, 2005–2015, Budapest
  Master thesis: Neutron noise measurements and Monte Carlo simulation for source driven subcritical reactor systems

Foreign languages:

english (intermediate)

Current position:

BUTE Institute of Nuclear Techniques, research assistant, 2015–

Publications:

• Szieberth M., Klujber G., Kloosterman J. L., de Haas D., Measurement of multiple alpha-modes at the Delphi subcritical assembly by neutron noise techniques, ANNALS OF NUCLEAR ENERGY 75: pp. 146-157. (2015)
• Szieberth M., Klujber G., Kloosterman J. L., de Haas D., Neutron noise measurements at the DELPHI Subcritical Assembly, International Conference on the Physics of Reactors 2012: Advances in Reactor Physics, PHYSOR 2012, Knoxville, USA, 2012.04.15-2012.04.20. [s. l.]: [s. n.], 2012. pp. 3679-3696. (ISBN:9781622763894)

CV - Dr György Károlyi

Present position, status

• Institute of Nuclear Techniques, Budapest University of Technology and Economics, Budapest, Hungary
  • 2011-2012 Associate professor
  • 2012- Professor
• Faculty of Natural Sciences, Budapest University of Technology and Economics, Budapest, Hungary
  • 2013 Vice dean (international and scientific affairs)

Place and date of birth

• Budapest, Hungary, 1968 December 29

Education, degrees

• 1993 Civil engineering MSc, Technical University of Budapest
• 1995 Physics MSc, Eötvös University
• 1999 PhD, Technical University of Budapest
• 2009 Doctor of Science, Hungarian Academy of Sciences
• 2010 Habilitation, Budapest University of Technology and Economics

Languages

• English, state examination, intermediate level, 1987 (fluency in read, write, speak)
• Spanish, state examination, intermediate level, 1998

Grants and awards

• 1987 National Physics Competition for Secondary Schools, 7th place
• 1999-2002 Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Bolyai János Research Grant
• 2002-2004 Office of Higher Education Projects, György Békésy Research Grant no. BÖ 40/2002
• 2003 Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Bolyai plaquette
• 2004-2006 Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Bolyai János Research Grant
• 2007 Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Certificate of Merit from the Board of the Bolyai Grant
• 2011 Institution of Civil Engineers, United Kingdom, Telford Premium Award for outstanding paper

Previous employment, status

• Research Group for Computational Mechanics, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest, Hungary
  • 1995-1997 Research assistant
• Department of Structural Mechanics, Budapest University of Technology and Economics, Budapest, Hungary
  • 1997-1998 Lecturer
  • 1998-2004 Assistant professor
  • 2004-2011 Associate professor

Visiting scientist

• 1996 Fachgebiet Holzbau, Universitat GH Essen, Essen, Germany (5.5 months)
• 1997 Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya, Barcelona, Spain (6 weeks)
• 2001-2002 Program in Applied Mathematics, University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona, USA (10 months)
• 2006-2008 Centre for Applied Dynamics Research, Department of Engineering, University of Aberdeen, Aberdeen, Scotland, UK (2 years)
• 2013 Department of Physics and Astronomy, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois, USA (3 weeks)
• 2014 Department of Physics and Astronomy, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois, USA (4 weeks)

Scholarships

• 1997-1998 Soros Foundation, Native Ph. D. Candidate Scholarship no. 230/578: Examination of spatially chaotic equilibrium states of chains
• 1997 European Science Foundation, Transport Processes in the Atmosphere and the Oceans (TAO), exchange grant no. 97/16: Dynamical systems analysis of buoy dispersion measurements from different sites and at different scales
• 2001-2002 The Thomas Cholnoky Foundation, Dr Imre Korányi Civil Engineering Scholarship
• 2006-2007 Medical Research Council of the United Kingdom, Discipline Hopping Award: The dynamics of in-stent restenosis processes

Teaching experience

Budapest University of Technology and Economics

Lectures: Dynamics, Physics for civil engineers, Applied mechanics, Chaos theory, Nonlinear dynamics
Tutorials: Statics, Strength of materials, Elasticity, Dynamics, Structural analysis

University of Aberdeen

Electricity and magnetism

Students

• 2004-2007 Attila Kocsis, PhD in 2009
• 2008-2010 András Bibó, PhD in 2013
• 2010- Ferenc Fekete
• 2013- Lili Eszter Laczák

Professional activity

Memberships

• 1998 Member of European Geophysical Society
• 2005 Member of Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics
• 2006 Member European Geosciences Union
• 2014- European Cooperation in Science and Technology, Action MP 1305 on Flowing matter, Member of Management Committee
• 1999-2001 Managing editor of Acta Technica Academiae Scientiarum Hungaricae
• 2000- Member of the Section of Technical Sciences at the Hungarian Academy of Sciences
• 2005- Secretary of the Engineering, Architecture and Transportation Science Topical Group, Section of Technical Sciences, Hungarian Academy of Sciences
• 2008- Member of the Committee of Mechanics of Solid Bodies, Section of Technical Sciences, Hungarian Academy of Sciences
• 2013-2016 Member of the Advisory Board of the Bolyai Research Grant, Hungarian Academy of Sciences
• 2013-2016 Member of the Mechanical, civil, transportation engineering and architectural jury of the National Scientific Research Fund of Hungary
• 2016-2019 Chairman of the Mechanical, civil, transportation engineering and architectural jury of the National Scientific Research Fund of Hungary
• 2005-2006 Member of the Postdoctoral Committee of the National Scientific Research Fund of Hungary
• 2016- MVM Paks Nuclear Power Plant Ltd, Scientific Advisory Board on Structural Integrity
• 2011- Core member of the Pál Csonka Doctoral School, Faculty of Architecture, Budapest University of Technology and Economics
• 2013- Member of the Council of the Pál Csonka Doctoral School, Faculty of Architecture, Budapest University of Technology and Economics
• 2016- Member of the Habilitation Committee and Doctoral Council of Arcitectural Science, Budapest University of Technology and Economics
• 1997-2000 Member of Lecture Note Committee, Faculty of Civil Engineering, Technical University of Budapest

Referee

• Journals: Structural Optimization, Periodica Polytechnica, Ecological Complexity, Journal of Sound and Vibration, Europhysics Letters, Tellus, Ecology, Nonlinear Processes in Geophysics, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A, Physica D, Physical Review Letters, Physical Review E, International Journal of Non-linear Mechanics, European Physical Journal - Special Topics, Chaos, Építés- Építészettudomány, Mathematical Problems in Engineering, New Journal of Physics, Engineering and Computational Mechanics, Mathematics and Computers in Simulation, Journal of Physics A, An International Journal of Mechanics Based Design of Structures and Machines, Physics of Fluids, Proceedings of the Royal Society A, PLOS One.
• 2003- Referree for the Hungarian National Scientific Research Fund
• 2007 Referee for Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO)
• Dissertations: Hungarian Academy of Sciences (DSc), Budapest University of Technology and Economics (PhD), Eötvös University (PhD)

Conference organisation

• 1994 Dynamics Days '94, Budapest, Hungary, co-organiser
• 1998 Conference on Numerical Methods and Computational Mechanics '98, Miskolc, Hungary, co-organiser
• 2000 Conference on Symmetry and Stability in Nonlinear Mechanics with Interdisciplinary Applications, Budapest, Hungary, co-organiser
• 2007 Nonlinear Dynamics and Chaos: Advances and Perspectives, a conference on the occasion of Prof. Celso Grebogi's 60th birthday, Aberdeen, Scotland, UK, co-organiser
• 2013 Applied Mathematics Day 2013, Budapest, Hungary, co-organiser
• 2014 Applied Mathematics Day 2014, Budapest, Hungary, co-organiser
• 2015 Applied Mathematics Day 2015, Budapest, Hungary, co-organiser