CV
Studies and positions
1997 M.Sc.; Chemistry & Physics (
1997-1999 High
School teacher position
1999-2002 Graduate Student
(with Prof. Tamás Turányi,
2002-2004 Junior Research Fellow
(
2004 Ph.D. in Physical Chemistry (
2004-2007 Postdoc (
2007-2008 Research Fellow (
2008-2010 Postdoc (with Prof. Bartosz A. Grzybowski,
Northwestern University,
2011- Associate Professor (
Awards and prizes
2004-2007 OTKA Postdoctoral Fellowship
(D048673)
2005 Publication Award of the
Hungarian Meteorological Service
2006 Postdoctoral Fellowship of the
Hungarian Ministry of Education
2006-2007 Öveges Research Program
2007 Polányi Prize of the
2007-2010 Bolyai János Research Fellowship
of the
Grants
1.
S&T project with the Paks Nuclear Power Plant (project number 4500130517), (2007-2008), 6.300.000 HUF (25,200 EUR), 'Development of an accidental
release software for the Paks Nuclear Power Plant'
2.
Hungarian Scientific Research Fund
(OTKA K68253), (2007-2010), 7,500,000 HUF (30,000
EUR), 'Pattern
formation and self-organization in precipitation systems, design and control of
patterns in the micro and nanoscales'
3.
Hungarian Scientific Research Fund
Postdoctoral Fellowship (D048673),
(2004-2007),
18,200,000 HUF (72,800 EUR), 'Investigation of complex reaction-diffusion systems and
parallelization of their models'
4.
Japanese-Hungarian Bilateral Research Program
(JAP-06/2006), (2008-2009), Nonlinear Dynamics
in Chemistry and Atmospheric Sciences, 4,200,000 HUF (16,800 EUR) (with
Dr. Daishin Ueyama)
5. Indo-Hungarian
Bilateral Research Program (IND-02/2006), (2008-2009), Precipitation Pattern Formation in
Reaction-Diffusion Systems, 4,110,000 HUF (16,440 EUR) (with Prof. George
Varghese)
6. FP7 - Science in Society (217725), (2008-2010), 875,081 EUR, 'Mind the gap: learning, teaching,
research and policy in inquiry-based science education (MIND THE GAP) ' (Co-PI)
Scientific referee
Since 2004: Journal of
Environmental Radioactivity, Journal of
Colloid and Interface Science
Since 2006: Journal of
American Chemical Society, Journal
of Physical Chemistry
Since 2007: Science of the
Total Environment, Colloids and Surfaces A:
Physicochemical and Engineering Aspects,
BSF Grant, Langmuir, Physical
Chemistry Chemical Physics, Journal of Chemical
Physics, Physics Letters, Superlattices and
Microstructures, Chemical Physics Letters
Since 2008: Journal of
Environmental Monitoring, Biogeosciences, Europhysics Letters
Since 2009: Computers &
Geosciences, Journal of Environmental Management, Journal
of
Since 2010: Geofluids, Időjárás, Entropy
Conference organization
International Workshop on
Pattern Formation (
International Workshop on
Pattern Formation in Chemical and Biological Systems (
Research innovations
(i)
Spiral
formation in precipitation system
Discovery of a dynamic pattern formation in a
precipitation system.
Related paper was HOT PAPER: Volford, F. Izsák, M. Ripszám and I. Lagzi*, Pattern
formation and self-organization in a simple precipitation system, Langmuir,
23, 961-964, 2007
(ii)
Air
pollution modeling using GPU computing
A new parallel framework to solve air pollution
problems on Graphical Processing Unit (GPU). Related paper was HOT PAPER: F. Molnár
jr., T. Szakály, R. Mészáros, I. Lagzi*, Air pollution modelling
using a Graphics Processing Unit with CUDA, Comput. Phys. Commun., 181, 105-112, 2010
(iii)
Maze
solving by a chemotactic fatty acid droplet
Design autonomously moving droplet. Related paper was HOT PAPER: I. Lagzi,
S. Soh, P. J. Wesson, K. P. Browne, B. A. Grzybowski, Maze solving
by chemotactic droplets, J. Am.
Chem. Soc., 132, 1198-1199, 2010
(iv)
Oscillations
in nanoparticle systems
Design
procedure for autonomously oscillating nanoparticles. Related paper
was HOT PAPER: I.
Lagzi, B. Kowalczyk, D.
Wang, B. A. Grzybowski, Nanoparticle Oscillations and Front, Angew. Chem. Int. Ed, doi: 10.1002/anie.201004231
Edited books
(i)
Precipitation Patterns in Reaction-Diffusion Systems, I. Lagzi
(ed), Research Signpost,
2010 ISBN 978-81-308-0420-0
(ii)
Proceedings of Hungarian Research Teachers, G. Kiss,