Kalman, Erika

Chemical engineer

She obtained her chemical engineering degree from the Chemical Engineering Department of the Technological University of Dresden. She obtained a candidate's degree in 1971, became a habilitate doctor in 1994 and doctor of chemical sciences in 1995. She is director of the Bay Zoltán Material Research and Technological Institute, scientific head of department of the Surface Modification and Nanostructures Department of the Chemical Research Centre of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences and is a private teacher at the Department of Chemical Engineering of the Technical University of Budapest. She spent more than 9 years in Germany as university student, PhD student, researcher and visiting professor.
She is extensively active in scientific organisation work. Amongst other activities, from 1986 she has held various leading positions (scientific work committee co-president, chief secretary, vice-president) of the International Society of Electrochemistry (ISE) and in 2001-2002 she was elected president of ISE. Currently she is member of the ISE Board of Directors. She was awarded the following prizes: the Kurt Schwabe prize in 1967, the Young Researchers' Prize of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences in 1976, the CAOLA medallion in 1989 for her outstanding research-development activity, the Institution First Prize in 2001, the Academy Prize in 2002 and ISE medallion in 2004. She was granted a Széchenyi professors' scholarship in 1998-2001.

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