Gergely Tóth (born June 11, 1966, in

Budapest Budapest is the Capital city, capital and List of cities and towns of Hungary, most populous city of Hungary. It is the List of cities in the European Union by population within city limits, tenth-largest city in the European Union by popul ...

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) is a theoretical chemist and university teacher of mathematical chemistry. He graduated from

Eötvös Loránd University Eötvös Loránd University (, ELTE, also known as ''University of Budapest'') is a Hungarian public research university based in Budapest. Founded in 1635, ELTE is one of the largest and most prestigious public higher education institutions in ...

, Faculty of Science, Department of Theoretical Chemistry and obtained his PhD in 1993 from the same institution. From 1993–1995 he was a postdoctoral fellow at

Max Planck Institute for Chemistry The Max Planck Institute for Chemistry (Otto Hahn Institute; ) is a non-university research institute under the auspices of the Max Planck Society (German: Max-Planck-Gesellschaft) in Mainz, Germany. It was created as the Kaiser Wilhelm Instit ...

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. From 1995–1997 he obtained Zoltán Magyary postdoctoral fellowship and from 1997–1999 Hungarian Scientific Research Fund postdoctoral fellowship at

. From 1999 he has a position at Institute of Chemistry,

. In 2015–2017 he served as the vice-director of the institute. He was a member of several local and national boards concerning chemistry education at secondary school and university levels. He is the head of the EchemTest Center in Budapest and Member of the Label Committee of the European Chemistry Network Association.

Research experience

He is author or co-author of around 50 international publications. The topics cover field of

chemistry Chemistry is the scientific study of the properties and behavior of matter. It is a physical science within the natural sciences that studies the chemical elements that make up matter and chemical compound, compounds made of atoms, molecules a ...

which are related to

computer simulation Computer simulation is the running of a mathematical model on a computer, the model being designed to represent the behaviour of, or the outcome of, a real-world or physical system. The reliability of some mathematical models can be determin ...

s or

mathematics Mathematics is a field of study that discovers and organizes methods, Mathematical theory, theories and theorems that are developed and Mathematical proof, proved for the needs of empirical sciences and mathematics itself. There are many ar ...

, e.g. modelling of condensed matter,

molecular dynamics Molecular dynamics (MD) is a computer simulation method for analyzing the Motion (physics), physical movements of atoms and molecules. The atoms and molecules are allowed to interact for a fixed period of time, giving a view of the dynamics ( ...

and

Monte Carlo simulations Monte Carlo methods, or Monte Carlo experiments, are a broad class of computational algorithms that rely on repeated random sampling to obtain numerical results. The underlying concept is to use randomness to solve problems that might be det ...

, Reverse Monte Carlo simulations, data evaluation,

chemometrics Chemometrics is the science of extracting information from chemical systems by data-driven means. Chemometrics is inherently interdisciplinary, using methods frequently employed in core data-analytic disciplines such as multivariate statistics, ap ...

and

numerical methods Numerical analysis is the study of algorithms that use numerical approximation (as opposed to symbolic manipulations) for the problems of mathematical analysis (as distinguished from discrete mathematics). It is the study of numerical methods t ...

References

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