Dr. Csaba Sükösd

honorary professor
Budapest University of Technology an Economics
Departement of Nuclear Techniques

Video portrait (in Hungarian)

Educational background:

• certified physicist, ELTE Budapest, Faculty of Sciences 1966 – 1971
• high school: József Attila Grammar School, Budapest, 1961 – 1965

Scientific degree:

• Candidate of Physical Sciences, Hungarian Academy of Sciences 1983
• University Doctoral Degree ELTE Faculty of Sciences 1975

Language skills:
Hungarian (mother tongue), French (advanced), German (advanced), English (advanced).

Current position:

•  honorary professor (retired) BME Institute of Nuclear Techniques 2013-

Previous positions:

• Deputy Director, BME Institute of Nuclear Techniques (1994-2013)
• Associate Professor, BME Department of Nuclear Techniques (1992-2013)
• Head of Department, Department of Nuclear Techniques, BME (1998-2011)
• Deputy Dean, Faculty of Science, BME (1998-2007)
• Associate Professor, Department of Atomic Physics, ELTE (1984-1992)
• Assistant Professor, Department of Atomic Physics, ELTE (1971-1983).

Professional experience abroad:

• 1973-74    Centre de Recherches Nucléaires Saclay, France
  (research fellow)
• 1978-80    Kernforschungsanlage Jülich, Germany, Institut für Kernphysik I.
  (visiting scientist)
• 1984-85    Kernforschungsanlage Jülich, Germany, Institut für Kernphysik I.
  (visiting scientist)
• 1992-94     Université Catholique de Louvain, Institut de Physique Nucléaire
  (9 months total, visiting professor with a grant from the European Community and the Belgian Government)

Honors and awards:

•  “Eugene Wigner-prize” (2011), (PDF)
•   ““Knight’s Cross Order of Merit of the Republic of Hungary” (2009)
• A “Excellent Teacher of the Faculty” BME Faculty of Science (2007)
• “Teacher’s Dolphin Award” (2007), (JPG)
• “Dean’s Praise” BME Faculty of Science (2006)
• “Széchenyi Professor Scholarship” (1999-2003)
• “Excellent Worker in Education” (1977)
• “Higher Education Medal ” (1971)

Research fields

• Experimental nuclear physics, neutron physics, nuclear fission, nuclear reactions, giant resonances
• Radioactive ion beams, nuclear astrophysics,
• Environmental ionizing radiations and the radon problem.

Previously (before 1992):

• Experimental  atomic and molecular physics,
• Electronspin-resonance,
• High temperature superconductors.

Professional social activities:

• Member of the Subcommittee on Nuclear Physics of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences (1990-93, 2014-   )
• Member of the Hungarian National Committee of IRPA (1991-1993)
• Member of the Information Committee of the European Nuclear Society (ENS) (1994-2002)
• The Hungarian Nuclear Society
  – Executive Secretary (1992-94)
  – Member of the Board (1998-2001)
  – Chairman of the Board (2004-2007)
  – Vice-President (2012-).
• The Roland Eötvös Physical Society
  – Secretary of the Nuclear Physics Section (1986-1991)
  – Vice-President (1996-1998, 2006-2011, 2013-2015)
  – Member of the Board (2016-   )
• Secretary of the Hungarian Pugwash Committee (1997-2000)
• Member of the Radiation Protection and Environmental Physics Committee of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences (1997-2011, 2014-   )
• Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the Budapest Science Center “Palace of Miracles” (1998-2003)
• Leader of the National Leo Szilárd Physics Competition (2003-   )
• Member of the Editorial Board of the Hungarian Physical Review “Fizikai Szemle” (1998 –   )
• Member of the Board of the European Nuclear Education Network (ENEN) (2003-2009)

Educational activity

Courses, lectures (in Hungarian):

• Nuclear Physics, Nuclear Technology for ELTE students of physics and physics teachers (1972-92),
• Atomic nad Molecular Physics, for ELTE students of physics teachers (1985-93)
• special lectures on nuclear physics, nuclear engineering, nuclear energy and radiation protection (1973-92),
• Nuclear and Particle Physics I. for BME engineering-physicists, (1992-2011)
• Modern Nuclear Methods for BME engineering- physicists, (1992-2008) (with other lecturers)
• Nuclear Engineering Module Seminars for BME engineering- physicists, (1992-2011)
• Seminars for the Nuclear Engineering Specialisation of the Physics MSc Program for BME Physics MSc Students (2009-   )
• Radiology Techniques for BME-SOTE Medical Biology Engineering Students (1994-2006) (with other lecturers)
• Nuclear and Neutron Physics BME Energy Engineer BSc (2006-2014) (only selected lectures since 2015)
• Basics of Environmental Protection BME Physics BSc (2007-2014) (with other lecturers)
• Nuclear Physics BME Physics MSc (2009- 2014) (only selected lectures since 2015)
• Nuclear Disarmement and Non-Proliferation issues BME general audience (2000-2015)  (with other lecturers)

Lectures in English:

• Nuclear physics and nuclear techniques BME nuclear program in English (1992),
• Nuclear Physics BME MSc and PhD program in English (1994-1998)
• Radiation Physics BME MSc. and PhD program in English (1997-2003)
• Nuclear Physics BME program in English for students from Duisburg (Germany) (2014-     )
• Nuclear Fundamentals BME English language training for Vietnamese nuclear education professionals (2013-2015)

 Laboratory practices (in Hungarian):

• Nuclear Physics laboratory for ELTE students for physics (1972-1992),
• Nuclear Physics laboratory for ELTE students for physics teachers (1985-2003),
• Electronics laboratory for ELTE students for geosciences, geophysics and biology  (1972-1988),
• Advanced Reactor Physics Laboratory for ELTE students for physics (1995-2003),
• Participation in BME Physics BSc and Physics MSc student laboratories (2006-2014).

Laboratory practices in English:

• Reactor physics laboratory  BME nuclear program in English (1993),
• Leading the “Eugene Wigner Course for Reactor Physics Experiments” students’ laboratory (2003-2007).

Organisation of miscellanous trainings and conferences:

• Organizing and conducting regular professional training for secondary school physics teachers and delivering lectures during those courses (1985-2000),
• Elaboration of the curriculum and regular management of physics topics in postgraduate courses in human ecology (1989-1998),
• Initiating, developing and coordinating a TEMPUS project for the establishment of a laboratory for high level IT education (ELTE,1991-1993).
• Annual organization and management of CERN in-service training for secondary school physics teachers (2006-2015 )
• Science on Stage
  – Organizing a 2010 Selection Event entitled “Színpadon a Természettudomány” . Budapest (Palace of Miracles) 2. October 2010.
  – Leading the Hungarian delegation to the Science on Stage 2011 International Science Teaching Festival in Copenhagen  16-19 April 2011.
  – Organizing a 2014 Selection Event entitled “Színpadon a Természettudomány” . Debrecen (ATOMKI) 11. October 2014.
  – Leading the Hungarian delegation to the Science on Stage 2011 International Science Teaching Festival in London 17-20 June 2015.
  – Organizing a 2016 Selection Event entitled “Hungarian Science on Stage Festival 2016” . Debrecen, (Agóra) 7-9. October 2016.
  – Organizing the international Science on Stage 2017 Festival in Debrecen with the title “Inventing the Future of Science Education” , 29 June – 2 July 2017.
  – Organizing a 2018 Selection Event entitled “Hungarian Science on Stage Festival 2018” . Szeged (Agóra), 5-7 October 2018.
  – Leading the Hungarian delegation to the Science on Stage 2019 International Science Teaching Festival in Cascais (Portugal)  31 October – 3 November 2019.
• – Co-Organizer and Co-Chair of the international GIREP-ICPE-EPEC-MPTL 2019 Conference (Eötvös-Year 2019) about physics education (Budapest BME), 1-5 July 2019.

E-mail:  sukosd [kukac] reak [pont] bme [pont] hu

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