First name: Alojz
Surname: Mészáros
Title: Dipl. Ing., PhD.
Sex: male
Nationality: Slovak
Date of birth: June 18, 1952
Place of birth: Podunajské Biskupice (now: Bratislava), (Czechoslovakia, now: Slovakia)
Marital status: married - from 1984 (1 son)
Profession: chemical engineer
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Summary of character and qualifications
High
energy, innovative and determined person with a gift for management and
organization; with lot of experience in team work. 28 years of experience in university
research, education and academic management as main job (Slovak University of
Technology - STU). Within that, the past 15 years devoted also to organization
and management activities – direction of middle and small academic units /
international and domestic research projects management / research teams
coordination / management in corporate
environment. Good liaisons and
collaboration with academic and research teams in Slovakia and abroad. Rich
connections with local authorities. Active domestic and international contacts
in the field of chemical engineering. Limited trade and management experience
gained as managing director of a trade Ltd. company (6 years) as well as an
auditing/accounting Ltd. company (1 year ).
Education record:
·
grammar
school 1958-1967
·
secondary
school 1967-1970
·
university 1970
-1975
Faculty
of Chemical Technology of the Slovak Technical University (now: Slovak
University of Technology)
Major
of study: "Chemical Process Control" awarded the Dipl. Ing. (MSc)
degree on June 29, 1975
·
PhD.
studies 1977-1983 at STU, Bratislava
Topic:
"Analysis and Optimal Control of
Distributed Parameter Systems"
awarded
the CSc. (candidate of science) degree ( equivalent to PhD.)
from
the Faculty of Electrical Engineering
of STU on January 13, 1983
·
Associate
professor in major "Chemical Engineering and Process Control", from
1994
Employment record:
·
lecturer
at the Department of Process Control, Faculty of Chemical Technology of the
Slovak University of Technology; from
1975
· Director of the rector`s office of the Slovak Univ. of Technology;
1990 - 91
5 departments; 45 employees;
responsibility: coordination and management of academic and research
activities of the University
·
Honorary
research fellow at the University of Birmingham; 1993
· Head of Department of Process
Control of STU (20 employees); 1994-1997
responsibility: coordination and
management of academical and research activities
·
Head
of Department of International Projects of the Faculty of Chemical and Food
Technology, STU; 2000-2003
·
Senior
research fellow at the Dept. of Chemical Engineering, Budapest University of
Technology and Economics; 2003 – 2004
Research interests:
''Tubular
Chemical Reactor Modeling and Control" ; "Polynomial Equation Methods
''; “Adaptive Control Design”;
recently: "Modeling and
Control of Biochemical Processes”, “Artificial Neural Networks”, “Dynamics and
Control of Recycle Processes”
Author / co-author of more than180 scientific papers and conference publications in the field of chemical / control engineering, including 5 books; among them over 100 contributions in English.
Participation in /
coordination of / research projects
· - national: Team leader and coordinator of VEGA research projects (1995–97, 1998 – 2000, 2001 – 2003, 2004 - ongoing) on the topic: “Adaptive and Intelligent Control of Biochemical / Chemical Processes”
·
- international:
- local manager of the international project in frame of TEMPUS programme “EC Cooperation in Science and Technology with Central and Eastern European Countries” , 1993-1994
- project manager of the international project in frame of TEMPUS programme “Chemical Engineering / Environment / Management” - 1994-1997
- project
manager of trilateral cooperation project between Slovakia, Austria and Hungary “Environmental Engineering,
Bioengineering and Risk Assesment”, 1998
- local coordinator of the international research network project “EUROPOLY” in frame of INCO Copernicus programme (concerted action), 1998-2000
- Slovak team leader of the international project in frame of LEONARDO programme “ Eurocompetencies Transfer in Vocational Guidance for Young Specialists in Bioscience Field” - 2000 - 2003
- procect manager of international project in frame of
bilateral Slovak-Norwegian programme “Norwegian Competencies Transfer into New Curricula of Environmental
Engineering Education at the Slovak University of Technology in Bratislava”
(2003-2004)
Research stays abroad
UCD Dublin, 1992 (5 weeks); University of
Birmingham, 1993 (6 months); ENSIGC Toulouse, 1994, 1995 (2 months); University
of Twente, Enschede, 1994 (2 weeks); Universita “La Sapienze” Roma, 1998 (1
month); ETH Zürich, 1998 (3
weeks); TEI Atény, 1999 (3 weeks); TU Wien, 1999 (1 week); University of
Greenwich, London, 2002 (1 week);TU Budapest, 2003-04 (1 year)
Knowledge of
languages
Hungarian - mother tongue, Slovak - on the level of mother tongue, English - thorough , German, Czech -satisfactory
Membership in professional / scientific organisations:
domestic Slovak Society of Cybernetics; Slovak Society of Chemical Engineers; Editorial board of AT&P Journal – chair in 1996-97
abroad Public Board of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences
Czech Society of Chemical Engineers
international The
New York Academy of Sciences
European Federation of Biotechnology
Other information
Computer
skills:
Programming and using of PC type computers in general; proficient in Word, Matlab, E-mail, Internet
Social
activities:
Representative
of local self-government district of the
Bratislava County – member of Committee for Finance, from 2001; Vice-mayor of the local district
Bratislava – Podunajske Biskupice, from 1998
State of health: good
Hobbies and interests: sports, literature, theatre