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