curriculum vitae de mme jakab toth eva

curriculum vitae de mme jakab toth eva

MRS JAKAB TOTH EVA - CURRICULUM VITAE
INTRODUCTION
JAKAB TÓTH Éva
Centre de Biophysique Moléculaire, CNRS, Rue Charles Sadron, 45071 Orléans, Cedex 2
Nationality : Hungarian
@: [email protected]
EDUCATION – SCIENTIFIC TITLES
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2004
Habilitation at the Hungarian Academy of Science, Budapest;
obtaining the title "Doctor of Chemical Sciences" (DSc).
Thesis of habilitation entitled: "GdIII and EuII complexes in medical
magnetic resonance imaging. Mechanism and development"
PhD (summa cum laude).
Thesis entitled "Equilibrium and Kinetic Properties of
Lanthanide Complexes with Functionalized Macrocycles"
(supervisor: Prof. Ernő Brücher).
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1994
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1990-1994
Doctoral scholarship of the Hungarian Academy of Science at the
Dept. of Inorganic and Analytical Chemistry, Lajos Kossuth University ,
Debrecen
1990
Chemistry degree with honours summa cum laude at Lajos Kossuth
University, Debrecen, Hungary; diploma of English-Hungarian scientific
translator; Award of the Faculty of Sciences for year 1990.
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PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCES
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2005-
Researcher (DR2) at the Center for Molecular Biophysics, CNRS,
Orléans, France
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2001- 2005
“Maître assistante” at the University of Lausanne, from Oct. 2001
“chargée de cours” at the Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de
Lausanne.
1995–2000
Postdoctoral, then “1st assistant” position in the group of Prof. André E.
Merbach, Institute of Inorganic and Analytical Chemistry, University of
Lausanne, Switzerland.
EXPERTISE DOMAINS
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Competences
Physicochemical characterization of paramagnetic metal complexes as potential contrast
agents in Magnetic Resonance Imaging .
 Multinuclear NMR, EPR, relaxivity studies, classical analytical and electrochemical techniques.
Coordination chemistry of polyamino-carboxylates. Thermodynamic stability and kinetic studies
of lanthanide complexes. Rotational dynamics of macromolecules. Development of high
efficiency and responsive MRI contrast agents.
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Publications
Author of 84 scientific publications in internationally renowned journals (over 1000
independent citations), four book chapters and two patents .
 Co-editor of the book “The Chemistry of Contrast Agents in Medical Magnetic Resonance
Imaging”, published by Wiley & Sons, 2001.
 Presented more than 100 oral and poster contributions at international conferences.
 Regular referee activity for scientific journals (JACS, Inorg. Chem., Chem. Eur. J. etc).
 See the detailed list
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Funded projects
“Multimodal (MRI and Optical Imaging) Contrast Agents for Cancer Imaging” 2007-2010 (Institut
National de Cancer)
 “Enzymatically Activated MRI Contrast Agents” 2007-2010 (ANR)
 “Réseau de collaboration PECO-NEI » 2006-2009 ; (MENESR)
 “Coordination Chemistry of Eu(II) and Related, Biomedically Relevant Trivalent
Lanthanides“ 2003-2005 ; (Fonds National Suisse)
 “Paramagnetic Substances in Diagnosis“ 2001-2005 ; (Office pour l’Education et la Science,
Suisse)
 “Solution Chemistry of Eu(II) “ 2001-2003 ; (Fonds National Suisse) “
OTHER ACTIVITIES
Member of the Scientific Advisory Board of the Max Planck Insitute for Biological
Cybernetics, Tubingen, Germany.
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Vice-chairman and working group coordinator of the European COST network "MetalBased Systems for Molecular Imaging Applications" (Action D38).
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 Organizer
of the following conferences:
2nd Working Group Meeting « MRI Contrast Agents » du COST D38, Orléans, 29 Febr. –1
March 2008
1st Working Group Meeting « MRI Contrast Agents » du COST D38, Orléans, 8-9 Dec.
2006
Final COST D18 meeting “Lanthanide Chemistry for Diagnosis and Therapy”, 31 March-1
April 2006, Orléans, France.