CV of Gábor Várhegyi

Personal Information

● Place and date of birth: Budapest, 1947

● Married, two grown-up children

Address

● Eper u 2/A Budapest, Hungary 1112
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Degrees

● 1994: Doct. Habil., Budapest University of Technology and Economics

● 1992: Doctor of Chemical Science (D.Sc.), Hungarian Academy of Sciences

● 1980: Candidate of Chemical Science (C.Sc.), Hungarian Academy of Sciences (recognized as PhD by the Budapest University of Technology and Economics)

● 1973: Doctoral degree, Loránd Eötvös University of Sciences, Budapest

● 1970: M.Sc. in Chemistry, Loránd Eötvös University of Sciences, Budapest

Positions

● 1 July 2013 – Independent scientist

● 1 July 2013 – External advisor of the Institute of Materials and Environmental Chemistry, HUN-REN Research Centre for Natural Sciences.  Earlier positions in this Institute and its predecessors: Head of the Group of Thermal Reaction Studies (2008-2013);  Head of Department of Environmental Chemistry (1999-2007); Head of Department of Thermal Analysis (1998); Head of Department of Macromolecular Chemistry (1996-1997); Scientific adviser (1992-1995), Senior researcher (1980-1992); Researcher (1973 - 1979)

Projects

● 2019-: Participant in Norwegian project Optimising the biocarbon value chain for sustainable metallurgical industry, (BioCarbUP, Research Council of Norway, Project Number 294679/E20)

● 2014-2017: Participant in Norwegian project Enabling the biocarbon value chain for energy (BioCarb+, Research Council of Norway)

● 2008-2012: Project Manager of a Hungarian OTKA research project entitled "Study of the Chemical Processes of Biomass Utilization".  (See the Final Report here)

● 2005-2007: Project Manager of the Hungarian team in a LIFE project of the European Union entitled "Biochar based co-generation alternative" (Acronym: BioCoAl, contact number: LIFE05 ENV/IT/00801)

● 1995-2005: Project Manager in Hungarian research projects on biomass and other fuels.

● 1993-1996: Project Manager of the Hungarian team in a JOULE II project of the European Union ("Fuel reactivity and release of pollutants and alkali vapours in pressurized solid fuel combustion for combined cycle power generation", JOU2CT920037)

● 1990-1997: Principal Investigator in two consecutive US - Hungarian Science and Technology Joint Fund grants on biomass research (1990-1997)

Main Research Topics

● Thermal decomposition and gasification/combustion properties of biomass materials and other solid fuels

● Reaction kinetic evaluation of experiments at arbitrary temperature - time functions assuming complex mechanism schemes

● Developing software for reaction kinetic evaluation, computer control, data acquisition and data processing of measurement systems

Experience Abroad

● 2005 - 2023: Visits at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim and at the SINTEF Energy Research, Trondheim.  Subject: biomass research and teaching on PhD courses.

● 2007 - 2009: Visits at the China University of Petroleum. Subject: biomass research. (Guest professor title: 2009-2014).

● 1987 - 2000: Visits at the Hawaii Natural Energy Institute of the University of Hawaii, USA. Subject: Charcoal formation from biomass materials (18 months combined)

● 1996: Visiting scientist at the National Institute for Resources and Environment, Japan. Subject: Thermochemical conversion of biomass materials (2 months)

● 1973 - 1974: Postdoctoral research scholarship at the École Polytechnique, Paris, France. Subject: thermodynamics (6 months)

Memberships

● Working Committee for Thermal Analysis of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences (President from Sept 2008 till April 2018)

● Member of the National Committee of The Combustion Institute

Publications

● Author/coauthor of ≈120 English language research papers (see the list).

● Google Scholar collected around 10 700 citations with an h index of 47 (https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=rQE887IAAAAJ ).

● The Hungarian Scientific Bibliography (MTMT) lists ca. 7700 citations of which ca. 6800 are independent citations (url).