Appointments

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 Associate Professor of Chemistry at the University of British Columbia - Okanagan

 Associate Professor of Chemistry at Montana State University 

Principal Investigator, MTA-ELTE Chemical Structure/Function Laboratory, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest, Hungary 

Visiting Research Fellowship (3 months awarded) at the Catalysis Research Centre, Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Japan 

 Editor-in-Chief of the Hungarian Journal of Industry and Chemistry (HJIC) 

Lecturer and Research Professor at Ibaraki University, Mito, Japan 

Distinguished Albert Szent-Györgyi Research Professor at University of Pannonia, Veszprém 

Visiting Associate Professor at Ibaraki University, Mito, Japan (sabbatical)

Assistant Professor of Chemistry at Montana State University 

 Recipient of the Szent-Györgyi Call-Home Fellowship and the distinguished „Momentum” Research Grant from the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest, Hungary

 Kavli Fellow, U.S. National Academy of Sciences

Recognition for mentoring students by the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Council of National Scientific Students’ Associations, Budapest, Hungary

Pro Scientia Gold Medal from the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Council of National Scientific Students’ Associations, Budapest, Hungary

Member of the Executive Committee of the Northwestern Theoretical and Computational Chemistry consortium 

The Clay Mineral Society, regular member

Treasurer of the Montana local section of the American Chemical Society 

American Chemical Society, organizer of the Spring 2009 and Spring 2018 MT ACS Local Section Meeting-in-miniature

The Society of Biological Inorganic Chemistry 

American Physics Society 

Development of a STEM-focused undergraduate ‘work-study’ program between Ibaraki University, Mito, Japan and MSU, Bozeman, MT

board member, Montana Local Section, American Chemical Society
organization of Spring and Fall 2018 local section meetings 

chair of the departmental graduate recruiting committee, developed and delivered a graduate recruiting platform at national ACS meetings in the US

graduate recruiting in Hungary, Slovakia, Japan (supported by Office of International Programs, MSU) 

sabbatical leave in Japan, graduate student recruiting and student exchange (Japan, South Korea) 

chair of the Department's Information Technology Committee 

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 

summer research mentor in Research Experience for Undergraduates (NSF REU) and American Indian Research Opportunities for high school and Native American Tribal College students 

ACS Inorganic Proficiency Exams (92 students) 

serving on graduate oral examinations (physical: 7; organic: 8; inorganic: 3,
biochemistry: 8) and thesis defences (organic: 2; physical: 4; inorganic: 1; biochemistry: 4) 

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 

University of Tromsø; University of British Columbia; York University; Budapest Technical and Economics University, Ibaraki University

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) 

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

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