Place and date of birth: Debrecen, Hungary, 3 April 1950 

Marital status: married (Ilona Loós), with two daughters
                (Ágnes 1975, Boglárka 1977)

Tel.: +36 62 544-337

Fax.: +36 62 420-505

E-mail: tkiss@chem.u-szeged.hu

Home address: H-6724 Szeged, Bartucz Lajos u. 5. I/2. (Tel.: +36 62 313-537)

Professional data:

• chemist, M.Sc. 1969-73 Kossuth University, Debrecen;
• Ph.D. 1973-76 Kossuth University, Debrecen;
• Candidate of Science 1983, Hungarian Academy of Sciences;
• D.Sc. 1994, Hungarian Academy of Sciences
• Ph.D Thesis: Transition metal complexes of ambidentate amino acids and catecholamines containing phenolic hydroxyl groups; supervisor: Prof. A. Gergely
• D.Sc Thesis: Metal binding ability of O donor containing small biomolecules

Teaching activity:

• Basic course in analytical chemistry
• Basic course in inorganic chemistry
• Foundation laboratory course in general chemistry
• Introductory course in Separation Techniques
• Advanced course in coordination chemistry
• Special course in bioinorganic chemistry

Research interest:

Metal [e.g. Co(II), Ni(II), Cu(II), Zn(II), VO(IV), VO₂(V), Fe(III), Al(III)] complexes of bioactive molecules: amino acid derivatives, peptides, amino-phosphonates, nucleotides, organic and inorganic phosphates, aliphatic and aromatic hydroxycarboxylates, catecholamines, etc. Thermodynamics of complex formation. Solution structure of complexes using spectroscopic and magnetic methods (UV-VIS, EPR, NMR, CD)

Scientific collaborations:

• Bioinorganic Chemistry group, Department of Inorganic and Analytical Chemistry, Kossuth University, Debrecen, Hungary (previous employment until July 1996)
• Prof. Henryk Kozlowski, Faculty of Chemistry, University of Wroclaw, Wroclaw, Poland,
• Prof. Giovanni Micera, Department of Chemistry, University of Sassari, Sassari Italy,
• Prof. R. Bruce Martin, Chemistry Department, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, USA,
• Prof. Giorgio Bombi, Department of Chemsitry, University of Padova, Padova, Italy,
• Prof. Benedetto Corain, Department of Chemistry, University L'Aquila, L'Aquila, Italy,
• Prof. Paolo Zatta, CNR Centre, Department of Biology, University of Padova, Padova, Italy,
• Dr. Roberta Bertani, CNR Centre, Department of Chemistry and Technology, University of Padova, Italy,
• Prof. Patrick Decock, Department of Chemistry, University of Littoral, Dunkerque, France.
• Prof. Joao Costa Pessoa, Centro de Quimica Estrutural Complexo I, Instituto Superior Técnico, Lisboa, Portugal.
• Prof. Debbie C. Crans, Department of Chemistry, Colorado State University, Fort Collins,USA.
• Prof. Dieter Rehder, Institute of Inorganic and Applied Chemistry, University of Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany.
• Prof. Athanoasios Salifoglou, Department of Chemistry, University of Crete, Heraklion,Greece.
• Prof. Hiromu Sakurai, Department of Analytical and Bioinorganic Chemistry, Kyoto Pharmaceutical University, Kyoto, Japan

Foreign institutions visited:

• University of Dundee, UK. (1977-78, SRC grant),
• University of Wroclaw, Poland (1985, 1987, 1989, 1990, 1993, 1996)
• University of Lille, France (1988, 1991, 1992, 1993, 1994)
• University of Sassari, Italy (1988, 1991, 1993, 1995),
• Imperial College, London, UK. (1991, 1997),
• University of Siena, Italy (1991),
• University of Parma, Italy, (1991),
• University of Valencia, Spain (1991, 1993),
• University of Oulu, Finland (1992),
• University of Umea, Sweden (1992),
• University of Padua, Italy (1993 COST grant, 1995, 1999, 2003),
• University of Dunkerque, France (1994, 1995, 1997,1999, 2001),
• University of Virginia, USA (1994),
• Virginia Commonwealth University, USA (1994),
• University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada (1995)
• University of Nagoya, Japan (1997, 1999, 2004)
• University of Kyoto, Japan (1997)
• Pharmaceutical University of Kyoto, Japan (1997, 1999, 2001, 2003)
• Ibaraki University, Mito, Japan (1999)
• Waseda University, Tokyo, Japan (2001)
• Instituto Superior Tecnico, Lisbon, Portugal (1998, 1999, 2000, 2002)
• University of Crete, Heraklion, Greece (1999, 2000, 2002)
• University of Florence, Italy (2001)

Membership:

• Chairman of IUPAC V.6 Commission on Equilibrium Data 1994-1998
• Presidency of the Hungarian Chemical Society 1990-1999
• Member of Society of Biological Inorganic Chemistry (SBIC)
• Member of the American Chemical Society
• Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry

• European Journal of Inorganic Chemistry
• Polyhedron
• Magyar Kémiai Folyóirat (Hungarian Journal of Chemistry) (until 2003)
  
• Central European Journal of Chemistry
• Journal of Inorganic Biochemistry
  

• Eurasia Conference
• International Conference on Applied Coordination Chemistry

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