Environmental Protection & Environmental Safety Research Group

RESEARCH GROUP LEADER: Balázs Kriszt PhD., associate professor, head of department

CONTACT: Kriszt.Balazs@kti.szie.hu

RESEARCH GROUP MEMBERS:
Associate professor: 2
Research fellow: 1
Assistant professor: 1
Junior assistant professor: 2
Departmental engineer: 5
Laboratory senior research fellow: 2
PhD student: 3

RESEARCH AREAS:
Environmental protection and environmental safety, Protection of surface and subsurface water systems, Environmental microbiology, Biotechnology, Molecular biology, Microbial ecotoxicology, Biodetoxification of mycotoxins, pesticides and drug residues, Design and operation of biological and geochemical monitoring systems, De novo genome projects of degrading microbes, Molecular cloning, Waste management, Exploring the current status and increasing the efficiency of composting, Development of waste water treatment technologies,

SERVICES:
molecular biology methods
standard microbial ecotoxicology and microbiology methods
environmental monitoring, bio-geochemical monitoring
biodegradation of micro-contaminants, mycotoxins and other xenobiotics
utilization of the by-products of renewable energy industry via composting
bacterial fermentation
DNA sequencing and fragment analysis
environmental risk assessment by molecular and microbiological methods (EDC-, toxic-, genotoxic-tests)

GRANTS:

NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL PROFESSIONAL RELATIONS:
On the website of the Department of Environmental Protection & Environmental Safety: www.kti.szie.hu/KKBT/

CONTRACTS:
Motorway management company, Oil and gas company, Construction and environmental services company, Ecotechnologies company, Rexterra Ltd., Organica Plc., Consulting and design company