Head: Dr. Attila Gáspár
Teaching staff involved in the programme:
- Melinda Pokoraczkiné Andrási
- Edina Baranyai
- Ildikó Bodnár
- Mihály Braun
- Attila Gáspár
- Róbert Huszánk
- Zoltán Juhász
- Zsófia Kertész
- József Posta
Research topics
Developments and applications of analytical and environment monitoring methods for pharmaceutical, clinical, proteomic, food and environment chemistry. Development, hyphenation and application of different spectrometric methods (mostly mass, UV, atomic and X-ray spectrometric) and separation methods (chromatography and electrophoresis). Ion-beam spectrometry. Determination of environment pollutants in (human) biological and envrironmental samples. Study of atmospheric aerosols. Analysis of elemental species. Development of microfludic, lab-on-a-chip devices. Study of chemical structures of molecules.
Description of the Doctoral Programme
Fundamental, bioanalytical and proteomic research and applications of capillary electrophoresis. In these studies after the high efficiency separation of components (mostly pharmaceuticals, proteins, monoclonal antibodies, biologicums), their sensitive detection and elucidation of their structure are performed with tandem mass spectrometry. The study of the posttranslational modifications of proteins is received special emphasis.
In environmental analyses the components of gas, liquid and solid environmental samples are determined with elemental analytical instruments, often coupled with separation methods. These studies aim at the determinations of pollutants with natural or antropogenic origin in environmental biological and food samples (drinking water, surface and grey waters, atmospheric aerosols, dusts, soil extracts, sediments, honey and oher food samples, pharmaceuticals, blood, hair, EDC materials (endocrine desrupting chemicals), etc). An important research topic is the reconstruction and monitoring of the change of the environment in our region which is getting more and more industrialized (pharmaceutical, battery and car industry).
The goal of the microfluidic research to develop analytical systems based on the lab-on-a-chip conception, which can be fast, efficient and still cheap tools to analyse environmental or clinical samples.