Curriculum Vitae:
Dr. George Kaptay is a former professor and head of Department of
Physical Chemistry and the present part-time professor and head of
the Department of Nanotechnology at the University of Miskolc,
Hungary. Dr. Kaptay is also the founding director and presently the
scientific vice director and head of Department of Nano-composites of
the BAY-NANO research institute on nanotechnology within the
campus of the University of Miskolc, Hungary.
Dr Kaptay holds MSc and PhD degrees in metallurgical engineering
(Leningrad, Russia) and a DSc degree in Interfacial Phenomena
(Academy of Sciences, Budapest, Hungary). His research interests
include interfacial phenomena, chemical thermodynamics,
electrochemical synthesis, nanotechnology, transport phenomena. He
has authored 260 papers, including a review chapter on Interfacial
Forces in the Taylor & Francis reference book for Health Sciences
(2009). He has held visiting professor appointments at the University of Alabama (USA), Kyushu Institute
of Technology (Japan) and Swinburne University of Technology (Australia). Earlier versions of a similar
course were presented by him at Kyushu (2004), Melbourne (2007) and at the EUROMAT conferences in
Prague (2005) and Glasgow (2009).
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