Detailed professional background
Education, degrees
Eötvös University, Budapest, 1964-1969
Eötvös University, Budapest, Dr. rer. nat., 1970
Hungarian Academy of Sciences (HAS), Budapest, Candidate of Science, 1978
Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Doctor of Science 1991
D.Sc. honoris causa, University of North Carolina at Wilmington, 2000
Membership in Learned Societies
Corresponding Member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, 2004
Member of the Academia Europaea, 2006
Full member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, 2010
Career summary
Research Scientist, Center for Studies on Chemical Structures, HAS, 1969-1973
Visiting Scientist, University of Texas, Austin, 1969
Research Scientist, Central Research Institute of Chemistry, HAS, 1973-1979,
Senior Research Scientist, Research Laboratory for Inorganic Chemistry, HAS, 1979-1986
Visiting Scientist, University of Connecticut, Storrs, 1983/1985
Senior Research Scientist, Structural Chemistry Research Group, HAS, Eötvös University, 1986-1991
Visiting Scientist, University of Connecticut, Storrs, 1988/1989
Visiting Scientist, University of Hawaii, Honolulu, Fall 1989
Visiting Scientist, University of Hawaii, Honolulu, Spring 1993
Visiting Scientist, University of North Carolina at Wilmington, Wilmington, 1996/97, Spring, 1998, Spring 1999
Visiting Fellow, MRC-Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Cambridge, England, January-March, 2000.
Visiting Scientist, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, Cold Spring Harbor, U.S.A. January-March, 2002.
Science advisor, Structural Chemistry Research Group, HAS, Eötvös University, 1991-2004
Research Professor of Chemistry, Materials Structure and Modeling Research Group, HAS, Budapest University of Technology and Economics, 2007-2011
Research professor at the Department of Inorganic and Analytical Chemistry, Budapest University of Technology and Economics, 2012-
Visiting Scholar, Matrix Biology Institute, Edgewater, NJ, U.S.A., Jan-June 2007, March-June 2008, March-June 2009, March-May 2010, January-April 2011
Editorial activities
Editor, Advances in Molecular Structure Research (JAI Press, Greenwich, Connecticut) 1995-2000
Book Review Editor, Structural Chemistry (Plenum Press, New York), 1990-present
Professional service
Member, Working Committee on Coordination Chemistry, HAS, 1981-1991
Member, The New York Academy of Sciences, 1987
Member, Institute of Materials Science, University of Connecticut, 1983/1985, 1988/89
Member, Working Committee on the Structure of Matter and Molecules, HAS, 1991-present
Member, Working Committee on Inorganic and Metalorganic Chemistry, HAS, 1991-1993
Member, Committee of Physical and Inorganic Chemistry of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, 2004-
Member, PhD School of the Chemistry Faculty, Budapest University of Technology and Economics, 2009-
Member, Ad-hoc Committee on How to Elect Members of the Academy, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, 2005
Member, Ad-hoc Committee on Interdisciplinarity, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, 2006
Charter Member, Association of Hungarian Women Scientists, Budapest, 2008-present
Awards, etc.
Academy Prize for Young Scientists, 1974
Academy Prize for Authors, Budapest, 1977
Kaskan Lectureship, State University of New York at Binghamton, 1994
Széchenyi State Prize of Hungary (shared with I. Hargittai), 1996
Keynote speaker (with I. Hargittai), Smithonian Institution, Washington, DC, 1996
Distinguished Women in Chemistry/Chemical Engineering Award, IUPAC, 2011
Annual Science Communication Award of the Club of Hungarian Science Journalists, 2011
Small planet named after the Hargittais, 2011
Research interest
Structural chemistry; coordination compounds; metal halides; high-temperature chemistry; gas-phase electron diffraction; combined use of experimental techniques (electron diffraction, vibrational spectroscopy, mass spectrometry) and theoretical chemistry; gas-solid structural differences, models of molecular geometry; general problems of symmetry.
Symmetry as a bridge between the sciences and the humanities.
The personal aspects of science, women scientists.
Lectures on Women in Science
Among others at the Universities of Stockholm; Rome, L’Aquila, Michigan (Ann Arbor), Maryland (at Baltimore County), Princeton, Stanford; St. Francis University (PA, USA), Moravian College, (PA, USA), Chech Academy of Sciences, Prague; Ochanomizu University, Tokyo; Technion, Haifa; Weizmann Institute, Rehovot, City College, New York; University of Barcelona; CityTech, CUNY, New York; NCBS, Bangalore, India; TATA Institute, Mumbai, India.
Main lecturer at a meeting on Women in Science organized by the Japanese Cabinet, Tokyo, 2005
Invited after dinner talks at different international conferences
Conferences on Women in Science (Budapest, 2007; Istambul, Turkey, 2008; Keszthely, Hungary, 2010, Budapest, 2013)
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