The research activity covers chemometrics (experimental design; linear, multilinear and nonlinear ordinary and robust regression, calibration; variable selection; QSAR analysis; hypothesis analysis; fuzzy theory), application of microwave in food engineering, comminution theory.

Reviewing for Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry, Journal of AOAC International, Chemometrics and Intelligent Laboratory Systems, Analytica Chimica Acta, Italian Journal of Food Science, Journal of Chemometrics, Vibrational Spectroscopy, Journal of Chromatography A., Journal of the Electrochemical Society, Journal of Physical Chemistry, Acta Chromatographica.

2006-2007 Postdocoral researcher in Galway (Nanoscale Biophotonics Research Group; Centre for Bioanalytical Sciences (CBAS); National University of Ireland - Galway (NUIG). Project leader is Dr. Alan G. Ryder) (15 months)

2006 Member of the Conference Organizing Committee of SCAC2006: 3rd Symposium on Computer Applications and Chemometrics in Analytical Chemistry 2006, which was held in Tihany, 3-7 July, 2006. More information can be found from the following URL address: http://www.kemometria.hu/

2005-2006 János Bolyai Research Fellowship (in Hungary)

2004 Member of the Conference Organizing Committee of SCAC 2004: Symposium on Computer Applications and Chemometrics in Analytical Chemistry 2004, which was held in Balatonfüred, 31 August to 3 September, 2004. More information can be found from the following URL address: http://www.kemometria.hu/

2004-2006 Supervisor of the project supported by Hungarian Science Foundation (OTKA) under contract number T-046484.
                  Using and developing multilinear (multi-way) calibration procedures to evaluate measurements of food and environmental sciences

2002-2004 Collaborator of the project supported by Hungarian Science Foundation (OTKA) under contract number T-037480.
                  Investigation and determination of the thermodynamic parameters of the foodstaffs of agricultural origin during combined, i.e.,
                  conductive, convective and microwave heat treatment based on novel measuring and data analysing methods

2003 Member of the Conference Organizing Committee of ACE-CC 2003: Advanced Chromatography and Electrophoresis & Conferentia Chemometrica 2003, which was held in Budapest, Oct. 27-29, 2003. More information can be found from the following URL address: http://www.kemometria.hu/

2002-2005 István Széchenyi Research Fellowship (in Hungary)

2002 Postdoctoral research fellowship in Frederiksberg, Denmark at The Royal Veterinary and Agricultural University (2 weeks)

2002 Postdoctoral research fellowship in Tarragona, Spain (Catalonia) at Universitat Rovira i Virgili (3 months)

2001-2003 Supervisor of the project supported by Hungarian Science Foundation (OTKA) under contract number T-035125.
                  Investigation of microwave treatment of agricultural materials developing novel procedures using chemometrical methods
                  Finished with "excellent" record of service

1999-2000 Collaborator of the project supported by Academic Scientific Foundation (AKP) under contract number: 98-51 2,4
                  Development of  novel variable selecting and model discriminating procedure for evaluating environmental data

1998-2000 Supervisor of the project supported by Hungarian Science Foundation (OTKA) under contract number F-025287. 
                  Theoretical foundation and development of the Pair-Correlation Method (PCM) and its comparative investigation through some problems in food science.
                  Finished with "excellent" record of service

2000 I was a member of the Conference Organizing Committee of the Chemistry Conference in Debrecen (Hungary).

1997-1999 Collaborator and financial coordinator of the project supported by Higher Education Research and Development Foundation, Ministry of Education under contract number OM FKFP 1032

1994-1999 Member as a questioning master of the State Examination Board of the College of Food Industry, University of Szeged

1995-1999 Member of the Conference Organizing Committee of Seminars of Chemometrics in Hungary in 1995, 1996, 1998 and 1999

1996-1997 Member of the Conference Organizing Committee of CC'97 Conferentia Chemometrica Budapest 1997, which was the 1st international chemometric conference held in Budapest, Aug. 21-23, 1997. More information can be found at the following URL address:
http://sol.cc.u-szeged.hu/~rajko/CC'97.html

1996 Study tour to Deventer, the Netherlands at International Agricultural College, Larenstein (1 week) and to Albstadt-Sigmaringen, Germany at Hochshule für Technik und Wirtschaft (1 week) covered by Phare project.

1995-1996 Optimisation of operational parameters for microwave heating treatment of soybean by experimental design

1994-1995 Generalizing the univariate fuzzy regression into multivariate one by geometric concepts. Developing bootstrap confidence interval for predictions evaluated from robust calibrations.

1994 Systematization of the regression procedures by defining the model error of first, second and third kind. Developing stable and precise algorithm for automatic controlling the moisture determination by Karl Fischer titration.

1993 Robust smoothing of HPLC signal by median based methods.

1992 Using the GATES (a genetic algorithm shell developed by Dr. Carlos B. Lucasius, Jr.) for estimating parameters of multivariate robust and fuzzy regression

American Chemical Society Hungary Chapter, foundation member, 2003-

Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Szeged Regional Committee, president of the Working Committee of Chemometrics and Molecular Modelling, 2000-

Hungarian Chemical Society, scientific secretary of the Working Group of Chemometrics, 1999-2007

Hungarian Academy of Sciences, leader member of the Working Committee of Automatic Analysis and Chemometrics, 1995-

Last updated: 08 August, 2008