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Tamás Szörényi - chief executive
TamasTamás Szörényi graduated with a Diploma of Education: Mathematics and Physics and received his PhD in Physics from József Attila University, Szeged in 1969 and 1972, respectively. He received his CSc degree in Physics from the Hungarian Academy of Sciences in 1983. He joined the Research Group on Laser Physics of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences after his graduation and worked for it till 2007. Starting from 1990 he was the head of the Laser Microfabrication Laboratory, while also served the Research Group as vice-director. While remaining honorary associate professor at the University of Szeged, in 2007 he moved to the Department of Natural Sciences and Environmental Protection, College of Dunaújváros, where he is full professor now. He is the founder and CEO of LaserSkill Ltd.
He is the co-author of 125 peer reviewed papers, three book chapters and two Hungarian patents, and served as editor for four conference proceedings. His work received more than 900 (as of December 2010) independent citations and gained him a Hirsch-index of 18. He organized and co-chaired numerous international conferences. Besides giving lectures and seminars on basic physics, optics and laser processing, he was an invited professor at Johannes Kepler University (Linz, Austria), University of Mons-Hainaut (Mons, Belgium), University of Vigo (Vigo, Spain), and University of Louis Pasteur (Strasbourg, France).
His research interests include application of lasers in materials science, biology and medicine in general, with laser surface processing, fabrication of thin films for sensor applications and protection of environment, and nanomaterials/nanostruc-tures synthesis by lasers, in particular.
Béla Hopp - senior researcher
Béla Hopp graduated in physics from the JATE University, Szeged, Hungary in 1989. He received the PhD and DSc degrees in physics in 1998 and 2009, respectively. He is the author of more than 70 peer-reviewed papers. He is an associate professor in the Research Group on Laser Physics of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences. He is the current head of the Laser Ablation Research Group operating at the Department of Optics and Quantum Electronics of the University of Szeged. His research areas are excimer laser ablation mechanism of different materials and its applications in medicine and micro-fabrication; surface chemical and morphological changes induced by excimer laser irradiation; pulsed laser deposition of biological, biocompatible thin layers and laser printing of different biological samples. He participated in and lead several Hungarian and international R&D projects.
Zsolt Geretovszky - senior scientist
Zsolt Geretovszky obtained his MSc in Physics and Chemistry and PhD at the Jozsef Attila University of Szeged, in 1992 and 1997, respectively. He is the author of more than 40 peer-reviewed papers, 7 book chapters. His research carrier gained him international recognition in the field of laser physics, materials processing and nanoscience and allowed him to spend several years at acknowledged research laboratories like at Lund University (Sweden) or at the University College London (UK). He is the current head of the Laser Microfabrication Laboratory at the Department of Optics and Quantum Electronics of the University of Szeged. He participated in and lead several Hungarian and international R&D projects. He specializes in laser assisted processing of materials as well as the production, characterization and application of nanostructured materials, in general and nanoparticles in particular. In LaserSkill Ltd. he is mainly acting as project leader.
Judit Heszlerné Kopniczky – chief analyst
Judit Heszlerné Kopniczky graduated in chemistry from József Attila University, Szeged, Hungary in 1990. She received her Licentiate degree in Physical Chemistry and PhD degree in Solid State Physics from Uppsala University, Sweden in 2001 and 2003, respectively. Since 2010 she is a research assistant at the Department of Optics and Quantum Electronics of the University of Szeged. Her scientific interest is centered on studying nanostructured materials by means of Scanning Force Microscopy and Electron Microscopy.
