Appointments
2021-present
Associate Professor of Chemistry at the University of British Columbia - Okanagan
2009-2021
Associate Professor of Chemistry at Montana State University
2015-2016
Principal Investigator, MTA-ELTE Chemical Structure/Function Laboratory, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest, Hungary
2015
Visiting Research Fellowship (3 months awarded) at the Catalysis Research Centre, Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Japan
2014-2017
Editor-in-Chief of the Hungarian Journal of Industry and Chemistry (HJIC)
2014-2016
Lecturer and Research Professor at Ibaraki University, Mito, Japan
2014
Distinguished Albert Szent-Györgyi Research Professor at University of Pannonia, Veszprém
2013
Visiting Associate Professor at Ibaraki University, Mito, Japan (sabbatical)
2003-2009
Assistant Professor of Chemistry at Montana State University
Professional Awards
2014 and 2015
Recipient of the Szent-Györgyi Call-Home Fellowship and the distinguished „Momentum” Research Grant from the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest, Hungary
2011
Kavli Fellow, U.S. National Academy of Sciences
1999-2001
Recognition for mentoring students by the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Council of National Scientific Students’ Associations, Budapest, Hungary
1995
Pro Scientia Gold Medal from the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Council of National Scientific Students’ Associations, Budapest, Hungary
Professional Societies
2017–2021
Member of the Executive Committee of the Northwestern Theoretical and Computational Chemistry consortium
2017–2021
The Clay Mineral Society, regular member
2017–2018
Treasurer of the Montana local section of the American Chemical Society
1998–2018
American Chemical Society, organizer of the Spring 2009 and Spring 2018 MT ACS Local Section Meeting-in-miniature
2005–2014
The Society of Biological Inorganic Chemistry
2004–2014
American Physics Society
Professional Academic Service
2019
Development of a STEM-focused undergraduate ‘work-study’ program between Ibaraki University, Mito, Japan and MSU, Bozeman, MT
2017–2018
board member, Montana Local Section, American Chemical Society
organization of Spring and Fall 2018 local section meetings
2016–2017
chair of the departmental graduate recruiting committee, developed and delivered a graduate recruiting platform at national ACS meetings in the US
2016
graduate recruiting in Hungary, Slovakia, Japan (supported by Office of International Programs, MSU)
2013
sabbatical leave in Japan, graduate student recruiting and student exchange (Japan, South Korea)
2005–2008
chair of the Department's Information Technology Committee
2005–2012
member of the Department’s Graduate Recruit Committee; design and implementation of the database-driven departmental website; design and update of a graduate recruit CD
2004-2012
summer research mentor in Research Experience for Undergraduates (NSF REU) and American Indian Research Opportunities for high school and Native American Tribal College students
2003-2016,2019
ACS Inorganic Proficiency Exams (92 students)
2003-present
serving on graduate oral examinations (physical: 7; organic: 8; inorganic: 3,
biochemistry: 8) and thesis defences (organic: 2; physical: 4; inorganic: 1; biochemistry: 4)
2006-2008, 2016
graduate recruit trips to ACS meeting in San Francisco, Atlanta, Chicago, Philadelphia, San Diego, Willamette University, University of Oregon, Boise State University, Calvin College, Washington DC
Professional Service to the Community
external reviewer/opponent on PhD dissertations
University of Tromsø; University of British Columbia; York University; Budapest Technical and Economics University, Ibaraki University
proposal reviews
Hungarian Academy of Sciences (Bólyai program and National Science Foundation), Australian Research Council, American Chemical Society, National Science Foundation (CBET panellist), National Institute of Health (panellist), Research Corporation, SSRL beam-time proposals, European Research Council (mail-in Reviewer), NASA Exobiology Panel (mail-in reviewer)
journal reviews
ACS Catalysis; Amino Acids; Angewandte Chemie – International Edition; Applied Clay Minerals; Asian Journal of Chemistry; Astrobiology; Bulletin of the Chemical Society of Japan; Clay Science; Coordination Chemical Reviews; Dalton Transactions; European Journal of Inorganic Chemistry; Inorganic Chemistry; Inorganica Chimica Acta; International Journal of Hydrogen Energy; Journal of Bioinorganic Chemistry; Journal of Computational Chemistry; Journal of Inorganic Biochemistry; Journal of Physical Chemistry; Journal of the American Chemical Society; Journal of the Brazilian Chemical Society; Journal of Theory and Computations; Minerals; PLOS ONE; Polyhedron; Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences; Protein Science; Science Magazine; Spectrochimica Acta; Theoretical Chemistry Accounts
meetings and conferences
2018
organizer of the Montana ACS Spring Meeting in Miniature in Bozeman, MT and the ACS Fall Meeting in Chico, MT
2013
organizer of the International Symposium of Homogeneous Catalytic Reactivity in Mito, Ibaraki, Japan and Prof. Keiji Morokuma’s “Cultural Merit” Award ceremony in Kyoto
2010
organizer of the NASA ABRC Mineral Thrust Summit in Bozeman, MT
2009
organizer of the Montana ACS Spring Meeting in Miniature in Bozeman, MT
2008
Chair of the SSRL Users Organization Executive Committee, Menlo Park, CA
2007
vice Chair of the SSRL UOEC, Menlo Park, CA
2005
co-chair of an EXAFS and XANES workshop at the Advanced Light Source Users’ Meeting, Berkeley, CA