András Kristóf Perczel#
| Membership Number: | 3363 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | CHEMICAL SCIENCES |
| Elected: | 2012 |
| Main Country of Residence: | HUNGARY |
| Homepage(s): | https://prot.chem.elte.hu/ |
| ORCID: | 0000-0003-1252-6416 |
Present and Previous Positions
- 2007 Head of the Department of Organic Chemistry, Inst. Of Chemistry, ELTE (Eötvös Loránd University)
- 2001 Professor at the Dep. of Chemistry, Inst. Of Chemistry, ELTE
- 1998 - 2001 Research Professor at the Dep. of Chem., Inst. Of Chemistry, ELTE
- 1996 - 1998 Research associate prof. at the Dep. of Chem., Inst. Of Chemistry, ELTE
- 1995 - 1996 Research fellow, Dep. of Biochemistry, Oxford Univ., UK
- 1993 - 1995 Research associate at the Dep. of Chem., Inst. Of Chemistry, ELTE
- 1992 - 1994 NSERC. Post doc. Fellow at the Dep. of Chem., Univ. of Toronto, Canada
- 1989 - 1992 Post. Doc. Fellow at the Dep. of Biochemistry, Brandeis Univ., Massachusetts USA
- 1985 - 1988 Fellow of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences (PhD student)
Fields of Scholarship
- Molecular modeling including MM, MD QM/MM and various QM and ab initio methods
- A wide range of solution-state NMR techniques
- Structure elucidation of alpha- and beta peptides, foldamers, miniproteins, structured- and unstructured proteins
- Protein expression and purification
- Dynamic characterization of peptides and proteins
- Synthetic chemistry of peptide and glycopeptides
- Bio-spectroscopy including ECD, IR spectroscopy
Honours and Awards
- 2011 Bolyai Prize (one of the highest scientific awards in Hungary, with only 5 laureates until today)
- 2010 elected member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences
- 2006 Fulbright fellowship
- 2004 Scientist of the year, Sanofi-Synthelabo
- 1998 - 2002 Széchenyi Professorship, Hungary
- 1997 Scientific Award (1st price), Faculty of Science, Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest
- 1996 Zemplén Géza award (Hungarian Academy of Sciences)
- 1993 and 1995 Pro Scientia Gold Medal, Hungarian Academy of Sciences
