Lecturers
Lecturers
Ferenc Horkay
Title and Affiliation:
Section on Tissue Biophysics and Biomimetics, Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD.
Lecture title:
Supramolecular organization and function of cartilage biopolymers
Short autobiography:
Dipl. Chem. 1976, University of Budapest
Ph.D. 1978, University of Budapest
C.Sc. 1984, Hungarian Academy of Sciences
D.Sc. 1992, Hungarian Academy of Sciences
Habilitation. 1997, University of Szeged
Senior Scientist, National Institute of Occupational Health, 1978-1984
Senior Scientist, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, 1984-1986
Professor of Chemistry, L. Eotvos University, Budapest, 1987-1996
Visiting Professor, University of Grenoble, France, 1990, 1992
Alexander von Humboldt Research Fellow, Freiburg, Germany, 1991-1992
Visiting Scientist, NIST, Gaithersburg, MD, 1993-1996
Senior Scientist, General Electric Corporate Research Center, Schenectady, NY, 1996-1999
Research Scientist, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, 1999-present
Vice-Chair of the Polymer Networks Group, 2004-2010
Chair of the Polymer Networks Group, 2010-present
Research Interests:
-Structure and dynamics of polymer solutions and gels
-Tissue science, molecular self-assembly, polyelectrolytes, structural hierarchy in biopolymersystems probed by scattering techniques, etc.
Date of Presentation: 2014/11/12