PROFESSORS OF THE FACULTY
The high standards of the education provided by the Faculty of Materials Science and Engineering are guaranteed by our academic staff and professors, who enjoy national and international recognition and reputations in their professional fields.
PROF. PÁL BÁRCZY
Institute of Ceramic and Polymer Engineering
The main topic of research groups around Professor Bárczy are cellular materials particularly foams either from water-base or from polymer, carbon or metal. As a project lead of a five member consortium he is the key person of developing a new type shaped metal foam technology which is recently combined also by space experiment on board of the ISS. The self life of foamability of nano particle stabilized aqueous suspension in water or in sponges was and is the topic of many extended studies. The correlations between foam structure and compressive strength were studied on polymer macro lattices built by a super precision rapid prototyping technology. Extended investigation was fulfilled on the development of carbon foam structures by pyrolitic treatments of surface treated PUR foams.
PROF. ZOLTÁN GÁCSI
Institute of Physical Metallurgy, Metal Forming and Nanotechnology
Prof. Gácsi, similarly to a number of our other professors, is an alumnus of the University. He is a renowned expert on ceramic particle reinforced metal-matrix composites and a leading domestic expert in the field of computer based image analysis. He is teaching courses on the mechanical, electrical and magnetic properties of metals. Professor Gácsi advises undergraduate and graduate students and his research group also includes doctoral students.
PROF. LÁSZLÓ A. GÖMZE
Institute of Ceramic and Polymer Engineering
Professor Gömze and his students carry out research on traditional ceramics, on ceramic matrix composites reinforced with submicron and nanoparticles and the relationship between mechanical, wear and thermal shock properties and microstructures of complex materials as ceramics. One area of special interest is the development and fabrication of high porosity ceramic materials for metal matrix composites (MMC-s) as well as of hetero-modulus ceramics and ceramic matrix composites (CMC-s) having several Young’s moduli, extreme mechanical properties and dynamic strength. Another area of particular focus is phase transformation in ceramic particles during high speed collisions and development of diamond-like ceramic materials as *c-Si3N4 *with extreme hardness, mechanical strength and thermal shock resistance.
PROF. GYÖRGY KAPTAY
Institute of Physical Metallurgy, Metal Forming and Nanotechnology
Professor Kaptay and his students carry our research in scientific areas like thermodynamics of materials, interfacial phenomena, nanotechnology, electrochemical synthesis and modeling thermo-physical properties of materials. In terms of materials types his group works with liquid metallic alloys, molten salts, ceramics, metal matrix composites and particles stabilized metallic foams and emulsions. One of his and his students latest achievements are a method to calculate surface phase transition lines for monotectic phase diagrams, a method to achieve perfect wettability of carbon surfaces by liquid aluminum, a method to produce particles stabilized metallic emulsions and monotectic alloys, a new technology to produce metallic foams and carbon micro- and nano-phase reinforced Al-matrix composites.
PROF. TAMÁS KÉKESI
Institute of Metallurgy
Professor Kékesi gives lectures in all fundamental fields of extractive/chemical metallurgy, including high-temperature and aqueous methods, waste processing and metal refining. His dominant research activity encompasses the purification and extraction of metals. Industrial processes of molten metal production and melt refining are examined and optimized by theoretical and experimental methods. A special field of his major scientific interest is the preparation of ultra-high purity metals and the processing of secondary raw materials. Ultra-high purity metals are tested in cooperation with Japanese research partners and new technologies are developed for advanced materials processing.
PROF. KÁLMÁN MAROSSY
Institute of Ceramic and Polymer Engineering
Professor Marossy graduated from the Technical University Budapest as chemical engineer in 1972. He started his career at BVK, the legal predecessor of BorsodChem Zrt and dealt with the research and development of PVC and PVC related polymers. He obtained his dr.univ. degree in 1983, PhD in 1998 from the TU Budapest and professorship at the University of Miskolc in 2008. He deals with the structure-property relationship and relaxation phenomena of polymers by thermally stimulated discharge and dynamic-mechanical methods; and was awarded the Dennis Gabor award for his research in his field. Recent research projects are polymer nano-composites, compatibility of polymers, polymer blends.
Prof. Valéria Mertinger
Institute of Physical Metallurgy, Metal Forming and Nanotechnology
Professor Mertinger has been working at the Department of Physical Metallurgy of the University of Miskolc since her graduation as Metallurgical Engineer. She also obtained a Physicist - Materials Engineer degree at the University of Debrecen. She has spent over a year abroad at various universities (3 months each at Munster, Berlin and Cambridge as well as 7 months at Bochum) where she had deepened her knowledge of the various aspects of metallography and the crystallization processes of metals. She has successfully supervised three doctoral (PhD) students and several MSc and BSc students, respectively. She is also very active in involving students in current research works for which she was recognized with the Master Teacher Golden Medal in 2013.
PROF. ÁRPÁD B. PALOTÁS
Institute of Energy and Quality
Árpád B. Palotás is both a metallurgical engineer (University of Miskolc) and a chemical engineer (MIT, Cambridge, USA). In his role as head of the Institute of Energy and Quality Issues, as well as the Department of Combustion Technology and Thermal Energy he is responsible for several research facilities, resources and research projects. His research activities include various aspects of the field of combustion, including, e.g., the use of high resolution scanning electron microscopy on soot particulates for the purpose of tracing the samples back to the sources responsible for their emission. Due to his commitment to a sustainable society, he is working on projects to expand the research scope at the Institute to a wider utilization of renewable energy by, e.g., establishing a new solar laboratory in addition to further developing the Department's capabilities in the field of biomass combustion and related issues (e.g., ash fusion).
PROF. ANDRÁS ROÓSZ
Institute of Physical Metallurgy, Metal Forming and Nanotechnology
Professor Roósz is also an alumnus of our faculty, he graduated in 1968. He is member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, former director of the Institute of Materials Science, founder of the physics-engineering education in Hungary and a world renowned expert on the solidification of metals and their alloys. His research group forms the base of the domestic space materials research. He is teaching the rules of transformation processes occurring in metals and their alloys as well as their computer based simulation. Students are often involved in his research projects.
PROF. ISTVÁN SZŰCS
Institute of Energy
The research activity of Professor Szűcs includes the development of furnace and boiler structure, efficiency enhancement, optimization of their operation. He has decades of activity in the area of refractory lining optimization and increasing their life span as well as operational safety by investigating the application technology of refractories. He is known for his expertise on solid air pollutant formation from industrial activities, as well as on the mathematical modeling of air pollutants’ transmission in open atmosphere. He has been leading projects on the enhancement of the operation of waste incinerators and the reduction of their air pollution. He is the lead researcher in the enhancement of thermal utilization of biomasses. Professor Szűcs teaches subjects on high temperature equipment (furnaces, boilers, etc.), refractory materials and air pollution control.
PROF. TAMÁS TÖRÖK
Institute of Metallurgy
Within the fields of Chemical Metallurgy and Surface Engineering Professor Török and his interested colleagues and students have recently been concentrating both on some application oriented tasks and fundamental research topics. In the departmental Surface Treatment Laboratory his students test different samples coated by protective metallic and/or organic layers. Among the experimental techniques applied the in depth profile analysis by GD-OES has been one of the newest development used in collaboration with an industrial partner. Corrosion studies are also performed by means of various electrochemical and chemical testing devices in different atmospheres and/or aqueous solutions. Development of some novel pre-treatment procedures as well as studying the mechanism of electroless nickel deposition onto several metallic (steel, aluminum and magnesium alloys) substrates has also been dealt with for a few years now.
Prof. Béla Viskolcz
Institute of Chemistry
He has experience in the field of elemental radical reactions and thermodynamics of complex systems. His work uses ab initio quantum chemical and molecular dynamic methods to understand the complex chemical space, based on molecular networks. The molecular networks can be also use to design new molecular libraries and also to understand the prebiotic molecular evolution. His other interest is in understanding the processes of molecular ageing in oxidative stress of biological systems. The origin of numerous degenerative diseases (cancer, cardiovascular and neurodegenerative diseases) is associated with a variety of free radical reactions within the human body and it is one of the major current theories of aging.