Ágnes Zsigmond
associate professor of chemistry
Department of Organic Chemistry
University of Szeged
Dóm-tér 8, Szeged, H-6720
Personal information:
Born: Kiskunhalas, 1952 05. 24.
Office phone: (62) 454-512
e-mail: azsig@chem.u-szeged.hu
Education:
undergraduate studies, József Attila University, 1970-1975
Ph.D., 1992, Hungarian Academy of Sciences
Work experience:
1975 - 80 research assistant, Department of Organic Chemistry, József Attila University 1980 93 assistant professor, Department of Organic Chemistry, József Attila University
1993 - associate professor, Department of Organic Chemistry, József Attila University
Fellowships:
1984 85 visiting reseacher, Southern Illinois University, Carbondale, IL, USA (15 months)
1991: visiting researcher, University of Uppsala (1 month)
1993: visiting professor, Laboratoire de Chimie Organomettalique de Surface, Lyon
(4 months)
1994: visiting professor, Laboratoire de Chimie Organomettalique de Surface, Lyon
(4 months)
1997: visiting professor, University of Texas at Dallas, USA (2 months)
1999: visiting professor, University of Texas at Dallas, USA (1 month)
Teaching activity:
Basic Organic Chemistry for undergraduate students
Organic Laboratory Experiments
Special courses about Organometallic Catalysis
Reserach interests:
Transformation of organic molecules ( especially ring systems) over metal catalysts, mainly from mechanistic point of wiew. (publications 1)
Characterization of transition metal catalysts by organic probe molecules and test reactions.
(publications 2)
Mild aerobic oxidation reactions, catalyzed by oxygen activating metal complexes, encapsulated in zeolite. (publications 3)