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Experience in ultrafast optical spectroscopic techniques, UV-Vis, NIR and mid-IR transient absorption and broadband fluorescence upconversion spectroscopy.Design and development of a UV-Vis pump - mid-IR pump - mid-IR probe setup.Teaching a laboratory course (NMR spectroscopy).Supervision of a Master's Thesis.Working with Prof. Eric Vauthey

Experimental and theoretical study of excited-state reactions, radical formations, proton and electron transfer processes.Development of fluorescent indicator displacement-based assays for biomolecule recognition.One and a half months scholarship at the University of Amsterdam in the frame of a LaserLab-Europe Access project (LLAMS002347).Teaching several physical chemistry laboratory courses.Supervision of a Master's Thesis.Thesis title: "The kinetics and mechanism of the reactions of excited state molecules"Supervisor: Prof. Miklós Kubinyi

Development of a novel method for the selective counting and sizing of single virus particles applying fluorescent aptamer-based nanoparticle tracking analysis.Development and application of immunoassays and fluorescence polarization based bioanalytical assays for classification of aptamers for virus recognition.Working with Prof. Róbert E. Gyurcsányi.