Gyorgy Szekely

About

Gyorgy Szekely received his MEng degree in Chemical Engineering from the Technical University of Budapest, and earned his PhD degree in Chemistry under the European Commission’s Marie Curie Actions from the Technical University of Dortmund. He worked as an Early Stage Researcher in Hovione PharmaScience Ltd, and an IAESTE Fellow at the University of Tokyo. He was a Research Associate working with Professor Andrew Livingston on molecular level separations in Imperial College London. Gyorgy was appointed a Lecturer in Chemical Engineering (2014–2018) and Visiting Academic (2019–2022) at The University of Manchester, and recipient of the Distinguished Visiting Fellowship of the Royal Academy of Engineering. Gyorgy serves as a Visiting Professor at Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 2026–2027. He is an Associate Professor in Chemical Engineering at the Advanced Membranes & Porous Materials Center at KAUST. The research interests of Gyorgy focus on sustainable separations through a combination of materials science and process engineering. In particular, he has been devoted to address the challenges of sustainable fabrication of membrane materials for harsh environments, and expand the application of these membranes via process intensification. He has over 150 publications, 10 patents, 4 books and 12 book chapters. He serves as an Executive Editorial Board Member for Sustainability Science and Technology, an Associate Editor for the Separation Processes section of Frontiers in Chemical Engineering, and for the Sustainability & Circularity NOW; he is a member of the Editorial Advisory Board of ACS Applied Polymer Materials, and of RSC Sustainability; and a member of the Editorial Board of the Journal of Membrane Science and Advanced Membranes. Gyorgy was appointed a Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry (FRSC) and Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (FHEA) in the UK. He has been elected as a council member of the European Membrane Society. He received the Industrial & Engineering Chemistry Research’s (I&ECR) Class of Influential Researchers Award, and the ACS Sustainable Chemistry & Engineering Lectureship Awards from the American Chemical Society.

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Education

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Projects & Funding

• Inverse material design for energy-efficient membrane separations KAUST
  2023 - 2025
• Sustainable polymer membranes for brine separation Saline Water Conversion Corporation
  2023 - 2024
• Membrane process development for brine separation Saline Water Conversion Corporation
  2023 - 2024
• Development of smart membranes for algal cultivation Aramco
  2023 - 2025
• Hybrid tandem catalytic conversion process towards higher-oxygenate e-fuels (E-Tandem) Horizon 2020
  2022 - 2026
• Machine learning for sustainable chemical manufacturing via solvent recycling KAUST
  2021 - 2022
• Mixed matrix membranes comprising of polybenzimidazole – benzimidazole-based MOFs for OSN KAUST
  2020 - 2023
• Clean water via nanomaterials-enabled sustainable purification Royal Academy of Engineering
  2018 - 2018
• Bridging the gap: Polymer-anchored metal-organic frameworks for defect-free membranes Royal Society
  2018 - 2018
• Molecular Imprinting for Sustainable Downstream Processing of Biopharmaceuticals Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council
  2016 - 2017
• Nanofiltration process development & NF skid design for diluent separation at pilot-scale implementation Cenovus Energy
  2016 - 2018
• PEEK-based membrane separations Victrex-Novamem
  2016 - 2017
• Graphene enabled ion exchange membranes Graphene Engineering Innovation Centre (GEIC)
  2016 - 2019
• Development of a remote and efficient water quality monitoring system for tropical urban source water British Council
  2015 - 2015
• Sustainable extraction of oleuropein antioxidant from olive leaves Royal Academy of Engineering
  2015 - 2016

Publications

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