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:

1. -Structure and dynamics of polymer solutions and gels
   

2. -Tissue science, molecular self-assembly, polyelectrolytes, structural hierarchy in biopolymersystems probed by scattering techniques, etc.