CURRICULUM VITAE

Bela Torok, Ph.D.

PERSONAL INFORMATION

Name: Bela Torok
Affiliation: Department of Chemistry, University of Massachusetts Boston
Office address: 100 Morissey Blvd., Boston MA 02125-3393
phone: (617) 287-6159; fax: (617)-287-6030
Email: bela.torok@umb.edu

EDUCATION

1996 Ph.D. in Chemistry, University of Szeged, Hungary
1990 BS/MS in Chemistry (Medicinal Chemistry Orientation), University of Szeged, Hungary

POSITIONS

2009-present Associate Member - Dana Farber/Harvard Cancer Institute, Boston MA

2006-present Co-Director - Center for Green Chemistry, University of Massachusetts Boston MA

2005-present Associate Professor- Department of Chemistry, University of Massachusetts Boston MA

2002-2005 Assistant Professor - Department of Chemistry, Michigan Technological University, Houghton, MI

2000-2002 Senior Research Associate, Department of Chemistry, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA (advisor: G. A. Olah)

1996-2000 Senior Research Associate, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Szeged, Hungary (advisor: M. Bartok)

1995-1996 Postdoctoral Research Associate - Department of Chemistry, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA (advisor: G. A. Olah)

AWARDS/HONORS

2000 Young Scientist Award of International Association of Catalysis Societies
1999 Szechenyi Professorial Fellowship (Hungarian Ministry of Education)
1998 Bolyai Fellowship (Hungarian Academy of Sciences)
1998 Sigma-Aldrich Hungary Award (Sigma-Aldrich Hungary)
1997 Teacher of the Year (Szentgyorgyi Medical University)
1997 Academic Award for Young Scientists (Hungarian Academy of Sciences)
1995 OTKA Postdoctoral Fellowship (Hungarian National Science Foundation)
Presidential Fellowship (President of the Hungarian Republic)

EDITORIAL BOARD MEMBER

Organic Preparations and Procedures International
Letters in Organic Chemistry

RESEARCH: Click here for research projects.

TEACHING:

General Chemistry
Organic Chemistry
Qualitative Organic Analysis (Spectroscopy)
Intermediate Organic Chemistry
Advanced Organic Chemistry I (graduate)
Advanced Organic Chemistry II (graduate)
Green Chemistry (graduate, with Drs. T. Dransfield, J. Evans, and D. Qu)
Physical Organic Chemistry (graduate)
Organic Synthesis (graduate)