Curriculum Vitae

Name:  Márton BALCZÓ

Date and place of birth:  June 23,1976 Budapest, Hungary

Citizenship:   Hungarian

Marital status:  single

Contact:

Márton BALCZÓ
Department of Fluid Mechanics
Budapest University of Technology and Economics
Building Ae, 1/5
Bertalan L. u. 4-6
H-1111 Budapest, HUNGARY

Phone: +36 1 463 1560
Fax: +36 1 463 3464

E-mail: balczo_et_ara.bme.hu
Department website: http://www.ara.bme.hu/english/
Laboratory website: http://www.karman-wtl.com
Private homepage: www.ara.bme.hu/~balczo


Research area

  • Modelling of traffic pollutant dispersion in urban area

Professional activities

March 2007 – research assistant at the Department of Fluid Mechanics, BME

  • Wind tunnel measurements of wind engineering problems including the design and setup of measurement systems for force, pressure, concentration and velocity measurements

  • Numerical simulation of microscale flow and dispersion

  • Management comittee member in COST Action 732 "Quality Assurance and Improvement of Micro-Scale Meteorological Models" (2008-2009)

  • Participation on the education of fluid mechanics  and in the German Education Program (2003-2006)

  • Education of "Engineering Meteorology" (2009- )

  • Reviewer for Atmospheric Environment


Education

Sept. 2003 – Februar 2007: PhD student at the Department of Fluid Mechanics, BME
Sept. 2002 – July 2003: civil service at Department of Fluid Mechanics, Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, BME.
Summer 2001 – summer 2002 : English language course

1996-2001 : Budapest University of Technology and Economics (BME), Faculty of Transportation Engineering, German Education Program, within:

  • 1997/1998 : Studies at the University of Karlsruhe, Germany with a semester scholarship of DAAD

  • 1998 - Studies again at the BME concentrating on aircrafts and aircraft engines

  • July 1999 : One-month-practice at the Institute of Thermal Turbomachinery in Karlsruhe

  • Oct. 2000 - May 2001 : Diploma student at the Institute of Thermal Turbomachinery, University of Karlsruhe. Title: 'Experimentelle Untersuchung von Labyrinthdichtungen mit Einlaufnuten' ('Experimental Investigations on Labyrinth Seals with Rub-Grooves')

  • June 2001 : M.Sc., dual language Diploma at the Department of Aircrafts and Ships, BME, graduating as mechanical engineer.

1991-1995 : Baár-Madas Reformed Grammar School , Budapest
1983-1991 : Primary Schools in Budapest and Budakeszi

Language skills

  • German: fluently

  • English: intermediate

Computer skills

  • Programming of measurement, data acquisition and automation tasks in NI Labview environment

  • Urban dispersion simulations with MISKAM (Micro-scale flow and dispersion model)

  • Data visualisation in TecPlot

  • Common applications: AutoCAD, Corel Graphics, MS Office, Adobe Acrobat, (La)TeX, HTML.

 

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