Péter G. Szalay

Péter Szalay (born June 17, 1962, in Szentes) is a Széchenyi Prize-winning Hungarian chemist, member of the International Academy of Quantum Molecular Science and the European Academy of Sciences and Arts and professor at the Eötvös Loránd University.

Education Szalay graduated from the Zrínyi Miklós High School in Zalaegerszeg in 1980. He received his degree in chemistry from the Eötvös Loránd University of Sciences in 1986. Between 1986 and 1989 he was a doctoral fellow at the Institute of Theoretical Chemistry at the University of Vienna. His supervisor was Professor Hans Lischka. He received his PhD in 1989.

Academic career Szalay has held various positions at the Department of Chemistry of Eötvös Loránd University since 1986. He is a full professor since 2004 and was director of the Institute of Chemistry between 2005 and 2008.

Between 1991 and 2011, he was a researcher at the University of Florida, the University of Mainz, the University of Texas at Austin and the University of Reims.

He is member of the International Academy of Quantum Molecular Science, the Hungarian Academy of Sciences and the European Academy of Sciences and Arts.

Awards Szalay won the Széchenyi Prize in 2017 He was awarded the Hungarian Order of Merit in 2022.