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Personal data

  • Date of birth: 13th of September 1979
  • Place of birth: Odorheiu Secuiesc, Romania
  • Married with Szidónia Bálint since 2004, two children (Emese born 2009, Mátyás born 2011)

University education and professional experiences

  • 2018 – present associate professor at the Physics Department of "Babes-Bolyai" University of Cluj-Napoca, Romania
  • 2016 – 2018 assistant professor at the Physics Department of "Babes-Bolyai" University of Cluj-Napoca, Romania
  • 2015 – habilitation “Biophysics/Medical Physics” at the Medical University of Graz, Graz, Austria
  • 2010 – 2016 group leader at the Ludwig Boltzmann Institute for Lung Vascular Research, Graz, Austria
  • 2007 – 2010 postdoc at the Division of General Anaesthesiology and Intensive Care Medicine, Medical University of Graz, Graz, Austria
  • 2007 – PhD in biophysics; Thesis: Investigating biological samples with atomic force microscope: from living cells to molecular level; University of Szeged, Faculty of Medicine, Hungary
  • 2003 – 2007 PhD student at the Biophysics Institute of the Biological Research Centre of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Szeged, Hungary
  • 2002 – 2003 ITC fellow at the Biological Research Centre of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Szeged, Hungary
  • 1998 – 2003 "Babes-Bolyai" University of Cluj-Napoca, Medical Physics- MS, Romania

Scientific interests

  • medical physics, biomedical imaging, computed tomography;
  • biophysics, atomic force microscopy, live cell imaging, cell biology;

Reference work (image 15/20: Living GP8 rat cerebral endothelial cells)

Awards and membership

  • 2014 October Takeda ATS Travel Grant, Austrian Society of Pulmonology
  • 2014 October inventum2013 Prize of the Austrian Patent Office for the AT512393 patent
  • 2014 Mar member of the Austrian Society of Pulmonology
  • 2012 June Patent submission for non-invasive assessment of pulmonary hypertension by means of dynamic CT (AT512393)
  • 2009 Jul Blue Riband Poster Prize IIIrd place at the Physiology 2009 conference, Dublin, Ireland
  • 2007 Mar Young Scientist Award of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences
  • 2005 Dec first prize and silver medal from the Szeged Branch of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Szeged
  • 2005 Dec Image Contest Winner, Asylum Research, Santa Barbara, CA, USA
  • 2003 Mar member of the Hungarian Biophysical Society

Teaching experiences

2006 – 2016

thesis co-tutor of

  • Krisztina Nagy (2007 – MSc), BRC, Szeged, Hungary
  • Diana Zabini (2009 – MSc, 2013 - PhD), Medical University of Graz, Austria
  • Michael Helmberger (2013 – MSc), Technical University Graz, Austria
  • Martin Wurm (2014 – MD), Medical University of Graz, Austria
  • Christian Payer (2015 - MSc), Technical University Graz, Austria
  • Michael Pienn (2010 – PhD - ongoing), Technical University Graz, Austria

2013 – 2016

  • lecturer of Biological imaging techniques, PhD program of the Medical University of Graz, Austria

2008 – 2010

  • invited lecturer of Biophysics, Department of Physics, "Babes-Bolyai" University of Cluj-Napoca, Romania

Social activities

  • 2008 – 2014 member of the organizing team of Transylvanian Interdisciplinary Workshop, Romania
  • 2000 – 2005 member of the organizing team of Bálványos Summer University and European Student Encounter, Băile Tuşnad, Romania
  • 1999 – 2001 president of Physics Students Association of Cluj-Napoca (KOFIHE)

Contact:
zoltan.balintphys.ubbcluj.ro | Faculty of Physics, Babeș-Bolyai University, M. Kogalniceanu 1-3, 400084 - Cluj-Napoca, Romania, Room 204