Curriculum Vitae - Zoltán ERDÉLYI

2014-: Head of the Department of Solid State Physics, University of Debrecen
2013-: Head of the joint Materials Science Laboratory of the Department of Solid State Physics, University of Debrecen, and MTA ATOMKI, representing the University of Debrecen
2021-: Contact person of the NKFIH Excellent Research Infrastructure: University of Debrecen – Institute for Nuclear Research Materials Science Research Network
2011-: Deputy Head of the Department of Solid State Physics, University of Debrecen

2011-2014: Elected member of the Council of the Science University Faculties, University of Debrecen
Until 2014: Elected member of the Council of the Faculty of Science and Technology, University of Debrecen, for two terms
2011-2016: Chair of the Housing Committee of the Science University Faculties, University of Debrecen
2016-: Member of the Housing Committee, University of Debrecen
2008-2012: Scientific Students’ Association coordinator, Institute of Physics, Faculty of Science and Technology, University of Debrecen
2009-2011: Member of the Faculty Committee of the Talent Management Program of the University of Debrecen
2009-2012: Coordinator of the Talent Management Program at the Institute of Physics
2010-: Member of the Doctoral School of Physics, University of Debrecen
2025-: Member of the Doctoral School of Chemistry, University of Debrecen
2013-: Member of the Council of the Institute of Physics, University of Debrecen

Materials science, nanostructures, surfaces and interfaces: motion of buried/internal interfaces at the nanoscale; investigation and control of interface morphology at the nanoscale; dissolution kinetics of thin films of a few atomic layers; nanodiffusion; surface and grain-boundary segregation; structural and optical investigation of porous and nanocomposite nanostructures; vapor and gas permeation of thin films; stress effects; photocatalysis; high harmonic generation (HHG).
Computer simulation and theory: kinetic mean field model; kinetic Monte Carlo simulations; continuum models; calculation of Auger spectra, x-ray and neutron diffraction and reflectometry patterns; calculation of x-ray standing wave fields in solids; etc.
Experimental techniques: AES, XPS, XRD, synchrotron and neutron methods, including diffraction, reflectometry, absorption spectroscopy and standing wave techniques; radiotracer technique; magnetron sputtering; atomic layer deposition (ALD); atom probe tomography; spectroscopic ellipsometry; AFM.

1998-: Teaching at the University of Debrecen, Hungary, and at Université Paul Cézanne / Aix-Marseille III, France, and the University of Münster, Germany, in various fields for students of physics, chemistry, chemical engineering, electrical engineering and materials science.
Responsible person for the Physics BSc program.
Head of the Solid State Physics and Materials Science Program of the Doctoral School of Physics.

Principal investigator and research group leader in numerous national and international research projects.
Project budgets ranging from a few million HUF to nearly 1.25 billion HUF per project.
Number of researchers supervised per project ranging from a few researchers to more than 50.

Close to 200 peer-reviewed international publications, including papers in Science, Physical Review Letters, Carbon, Acta Materialia, etc.
Google Scholar profile
MTMT publication list
Author/co-author of 3 book chapters/books.
55 talks at conferences and symposia, including 46 invited talks.
Editor of 1 edited volume.
5 theses.

2024-: Chair of the Committee on Solid State Physics of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences
2008-2014: Secretary of the Committee on Solid State Physics of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences
2014-2015: Guest Editor, Thin Solid Films
2008-2011: Member of the Physics Jury of the Hungarian Scientific Research Fund (OTKA)
2016: Member of an NKFIH jury
2007-2010, 2011-2013, 2013-: Member of the Hungarian Synchrotron Committee of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences
2005-: Member of the Committee on Solid State Physics of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences
2002-: Member of the public body of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences
1993-: Member of the Roland Eötvös Physical Society, Hungary
2014-: Member of the committee awarding French government scholarships, Bourse du gouvernement français
2014-2024: Expert appointed by the Board of Trustees of the Bolyai János Research Scholarship

1990: Mikola Sándor National Secondary School Academic Competition in Physics, qualified among the best 20
1991: Mikola Sándor National Secondary School Academic Competition in Physics, 1st Prize
1997-1998: Scholarship of the Republic of Hungary
OTDK, 2nd Prize
2004-2007: Bolyai János Research Scholarship, completed with excellent results
2009-2012: Bolyai János Research Scholarship, completed with excellent results
2014: Selényi Pál Award, Roland Eötvös Physical Society