CURRICULUM VITAE

 

 

Proposed position in the programme:

 

1.         Family name: LICSKÓ

 

2.         First name: ISTVÁN

 

3.         Date of birth: 11/04/1946

 

4.         Nationality: HUNGARIAN 

 

5.         Civil status: MARRIED, 1 CHILD

 

6.         Education: 

 

Institution:

  Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest

Date: from (month/year):

        to (month/year)

  09/1964 - 08/1969

Degree(s) of Diploma(s) obtained:

  MD in teaching of Chemistry and Physics

 

Institution:

  University of Technology, Budapest

Date: from (month/year):

        to (month/year)

  02/1974 - 10/1976

Degree(s) of Diploma(s) obtained:

  Postgraduate degree in Environmental        Pollution Control

 

Institution:

  Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest

Date: from (month/year):

        to (month/year)

  01/1975 - 11/1976

Degree(s) of Diploma(s) obtained:

  PhD in Science

 

Institution:

  Hungarian Academy of Sciences

Date: from (month/year):

        to (month/year)

  11/1980 - 11/1988

Degree(s) of Diploma(s) obtained:

  Candidate Degree of Chemical Science

 

 

7.         Language skills:          (Mark 1 to 5 for competence)

 

 

Language

Reading

Speaking

Writing

  Hungarian

5

5

5

  English

4

4

4

  Russian

4

4

3

 

 

8.                  Membership of professional bodies: Hungarian Hydrological Society

 

Hungarian Chemical Society

 

International Water Association

 

International Task Force Group on "Assessment  and Monitoring of Acidification of Rivers and Lakes"

 

9.         Other skills:

 

10.       Present position: Associate Professor

                                                             

11.       Years within the firm: 2

 

12.       Key qualifications: (Relevant to the programme):

 

            -           expert in chemical water and wastewater treatment

            -           expert in drinking water treatment technologies

            -           expert in heavy metals removal from drinking- and wastewaters

            -           expert in aquatic chemistry

            -           extensive experience in polluted groundwater remediation

            -           experience in EIA

            -           experience in EA

            -           experience in treatment of polluted water by chemical technology

 

13.       Specific Eastern Countries experience:

 

 

Country

Date: from (month/year) to (month/year)

  Ukraine

  06/1993 - 07/1993

 

 

 

 

 

14.       Professional Experience Record:

 

Date: from (month/year)

        to (month/year)

  07/1999 –

Location

  Budapest, HUNGARY

Company

Budapest University of Technology and Economy  

Department Sanitary and Environmental      Engineering

Position

  Associate Professor

Description

2001

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

2000

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

1999

 

 

 

1999-2001

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

1999-2000

 

 

1999

 

Complex nitrate removal and elimination – Methodology of analyses and pilot scale experiments

Client: VARIONEX Ltd.

 

Environmental audit of North-pest Sewage Treatment Plant

Client: Municipal Sewerage Works plc

 

Project Manager: Investigation the possibilities of drinking water quality upgrading in water supply system Csanádpalota-Kövegy

Client: Makó and Surroundings Waterworks plc

 

Project Manager: Investigation of possibility the driving GE HUNGARY Zalaegerszeg Factory treated oily wastewater effluent into the municipal sewer system

Client: GE HUNGARY plc

 

Team Member: Evaluation of Budafok district drinking water quality data

Client: Municipal Waterworks

 

Team Member: Mathematical modelling of coagulation processes during surfaces water treatment

Client: National Research Found of Sciences

 

Team Membert: Investigation and evaluation of South-Pest Wastewater Treatment Plant following its reconstruction

Client: Municipal Sewerage Works

 

Team Member: Possibilities of chemical treatment of sewages in Hungary

Client: Ministry of Education Research Found 

Project Manager: Pilot scale experiments for fluoride and ammonium concentration decreasing in industrial wastewater of GE Lighting TUNGSRAM Nagykanizsa Factory

Client: GE Lighting TUNGSRAM

 

Date: from (month/year)

        to (month/year)

  02/1998 – 07/1999

Location

  Budapest, HUNGARY

Company

  Hungarian Academy of Sciences

Position

  Senior Research Associate

Description

1999

 

 

 

1998-2000

 

 

 

1998-1999

 

 

 

1998

 

 

Project Manager: Upgrading industrial wastewater treatment in GE Lighting TUNGSRAM Zalaegerszeg Factory

Client: GE Lighting TUNGSRAM

 

Team Member: Water Management Strategy for Hungary at the beginning of the new milenium

Client: Hungarian Academy of Sciences

 

Team Member: Strategies for meeting requirements of EU legislation in the water sector (Hungary): The Sajó-Bodrog Region

Client: World Bank

 

Project Manager: Decreasing fluoride concentration in industrial wastewater of GE Lighting TUNGSRAM Nagykanizsa Factory

Client: GE Lighting TUNGSRAM

 

Project Manager: HUNGARY – Municipal Wastewater Project: Evaluation of Budapest industrial waste management

Client: World Bank

 

 

 

 

 

Date: from (month/year)

        to (month/year)

  06/1992 – 01/1998

Location

  Budapest, HUNGARY

Company

  VITUKI Consult Rt

Position

  Chief Scientist

Description

1997-1998

 

 

 

1997

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

1996-1997

 

 

 

 

1996

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Project Manager: Determining of environmental demages developed in the past and remediation costs for exploration site of Enargit Ltd.

Client: Enargit Ltd.

 

Project Manager: Possibilities of improving drinking water quality originated from Tettye karst-source

Client: Pécs Waterworks plc

 

Project Manager: Water pollution effect of tailings situated at the banks of small streams and reservoir

Client: Recsk Ore Mines Co

 

Project Manager: Investigation and verifying the actoins for upgrading the efficiency of sand trap on Debrecen Sewage Treatment Plant

Client: Debrecen Waterworks Co.

 

Project Manager: Preparing treatment technology for polluted groundwater by laboratory experiments

Client: VITUKI Rt.

 

Project Manager: Investigation and upgrading of drinking water quality from Nyírtelek Municipal Waterworks

Client: NyírségVíz Rt.

 

Project Manager: Assessment of environmental pollution of Metallochemia site and its surroundings

Client: Hungarian Privatization & State Holding Co. PHARE Unit

 

 

 

Description

1996

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

1995-1996

 

 

 

 

 

1995

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Project Manager: Identification of environmental pollution caused by the tailings

of the Recsk Ore Mines Co

Client: Hungarian Privatization & State Holding Co. PHARE Unit

 

Project Manager: Environmental audit on Recsk Ore Mines Co.

Client: Hungarian Privatization & State Holding Co. PHARE Unit

 

Team member: Hungarian Rail Investment Study – Preliminary environmental

Screening of investment projects

Client: Halcrow Fox (UK)

 

Project Manager: Upgrading the quality of drinking water from Szilvásvárad Waterworks - I. Decreasing the eutrofication of row water

Client: North Hungarian Regional Waterworks

 

Project Manager: Evaluation of technologies for disinfection on the basis of local conditions of drinking water sources and chemical components of row water

Client: VITUKI Rt.

 

Team member: Feasibility Study for Environmental Protection Investment Programme in Hungary

Client: Coopers & Lybrand (EBRD)

 

Project Manager: Evaluation of Municipal Waterworks operation (iron and manganese removal) at Pétervására

Client: Heves County Court of Justice

 

Team member: Feasibility Studies for Municipal Sewage Treatment Programme in Hungary

Client: Ws Atkins (UK) (PHARE - World Bank)

 

Team member: EIA of Gyõr Municipal Sewage Treatment Plant - sewage treatment procedure and sludge incineration

Client: VITUKI Rt. (OVIBER)

 

Description

1995

 

 

 

1994

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

1993

 

 

 

 

Organizer of the DRINKNET WORKSHOP – National and International Drinking Water Standards

Client: WRc (UK), CEC

 

Project Manager: Handbook Preparation for Aluminium Sulphate Users at Water and Sewage Treatment Works

Client: MOTIM

 

Project Manager: Investigation of water quality of Csórrét Reservoir and its feeding creeks concerning the air-born acidification

Client: Research Institute of Soil Science and Agricultural Chemistry of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences

 

 

Team member: The new WHO Guidelines for

Drinking Water Quality and its consequences for drinking water supply in Hungary

Client: VITUKI Rt./National Water Authority

 

Organizer of International Task Force Meeting  Convention on Long Range Transboundary Air Pollution - International Co-operative Programme on Assessment and Monitoring of Acidification of Rivers and Lakes

Client: Ministry for Environmental Protection and Regional Policy

 

Team member: Environmental Audit on Pécs Tannery - The Garé Hazardous Waste Disposal Site

Client: State Property Agency PHARE Office

 

Project Manager: Application of Chemical Precipitation in Municipal Sewage Treatment

Client: Association for Environmental Protection at Tata region

 

Organizer of a Finnish Seminar in Hungary: Environmental and Water Technologies (Hungary)

Client: Finnish Foreign Trade Association

 

 

 

Description

1993

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

1992-1993

 

 

 

1992-1993

 

 

 

 

Temporary Team Leader in the Project: Pre-

Investment Study for the Drava River Basin (Hungary)

Client: EBRD

 

Invited specialist in the Project: Environment Management Plan for the Dnipro River: Ukraine (Ukraine)

Client: HALCROW (ODA), UK

 

Organizer of Liaison Group Meeting for PHARE countries (Hungary)

Client: CEC PHARE Unit, Brussels

 

Team member: Environmental Audit at BUSZESZ-WELLSTAR Ltd.

Client: HALCROW, UK

 

Organiser of II. Danube Task Force Meeting

Client: CEC PHARE Unit, Brussels

 

Invited lecturer to "European Masters Degree Course" Supported by TEMPUS Programme of CEC

 

Project Manager: Investigation of chemicals for water and wastewater treatment

Client: KEMIRA Water Treatment, Sweden

 

 

 

 

Date: from (month/year)

        to (month/year)

  09/1969 - 05/1992

Location

  Budapest, HUNGARY

Company

  VITUKI, Institute for Water Pollution                     Control

Position

  Scientific adviser  (1989 - 1992)

  senior research associate  (1980 - 1989)

  research associate  (1973 - 1980)

  assistant research associate  (1969 - 1973)

Description

1991-1992

 

 

 

1988-1991

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

1988-1989

 

 

 

 

 

1989-1990

 

 

 

 

1989-1990

 

 

 

1988

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Project Manager: Professional Assessment of Sewage Treatment Studies

Client: PHARE Unit of the Ministry of Environmental Protection and Regional Policy

 

Team member of research project on the protection of bank-filtered drinking water resources (elaboration of emergency technologies for drinking water treatment for periods of temporarily deterioration of water quality of bank-filtered resources).

Client:WHO

 

Team member: Increasing the capacity of and improving the drinking water quality from the water treatment plant of the DUNAFERR Iron and Steel Works.

Client: DUNAFERR Company

 

Team member: Increasing effluent water quality in wastewater treatment plant of Gedeon Richter Pharmaceutical Factory.

Client: Gedeon Richter Co.

 

Team member: Pollutant removal from wastewater of Lábatlan Paper Factory.

Client: Lábatlan Paper Factory

 

Team member: Elaboration of technology for removal of chromium (VI) in a groundwater pollution emergency.

Client : Regional Authority for Environment and Water Management

Description

1987-1990

 

 

 

 

1987-1988

 

 

 

1986-1990

 

 

 

 

1986-1989

 

 

 

 

1985-1990

 

 

 

 

 

1981-1986

 

 

 

 

1981-1985

 

 

 

1978-1984

 

 

 

 

 

 

Project Manager: Investigation of heavy metal pollution in Lake Balaton and in the main streams of Lake Balaton.

Client: Ministry for Environment and Water Management

 

Team member: Reducing heavy metals content in wastewater of electroplating workshop.

Client: MEDICOR Works

 

Project Manager: Improvement of surface water treatment technologies.

Client: Ministry for Environment and Water Management

 

Invited lecturer in aquatic chemistry of drinking water and wastewater treatment on postgraduate course for production engineers at the College for Water Management in Baja

 

Team member in a research project on investigation of surface waters by atmospherical deposition.

Client: Ministry for Environment and Water Management

 

Invited lecturer in advanced water treatment technologies on postgraduate course for chemical engineers at the Budapest University of Technology.

 

Project Manager: Removal of organic and inorganic micropollutants for drinking water.

Client: National Water Authority

 

Project Manager: Removal of heavy metals from industrial wastes by chemical precipitation and from sewage water using sludge and sulphide ions.

Client: National  Authority of Environment Protection

 

 

 

15. Others:

 

16. Publications: More than 80 papers in Hungarian, English, German and Russian languages.

 

Selected papers published in English and German:

 

Licskó, I., Melicz, Z., Ádám, R., Fürst, Á., Vadnay, Á., Tóth, Gy., Mészáros, J. (1999): Impacts of Drastic Sewage decrease on the Operation of Municipal WWTP’s in Hungary: Case Studies

            in: Proceedings of 8th IAWQ Conference on Design, Operation and Economics of large Wastewater Treatment Plants  pp. 504-510    6-9 Sept, 1999. Budapest, Hungary

 

Hajdú, A. and Licskó, I.(1999): Environmental pollution caused by a non-ferrous metal smelter                Water Science and Technology  39 (10-11)  pp. 165-168.  (1999)

 

Licskó, I., Lois, L., Szebényi, G.(1999): Tailings as a source of environmental pollution

Water Science and Technology  39 (10-11)  pp. 333-336.  (1999)

 

Licskó, I.: Realistic coagulation mechanisms in the use of aluminium and iron(III) salts

Wat. Sci. Techn.  36 No. 4   pp. 103-110,  1997

 

Hajdú, A. and Licskó, I.: Environmental pollution caused by a non-ferrous metal smelter

In: Proceedings of IAWQ International Conference on: Chemical Process Industries an Environmental Management (Ed: A. Gerber)  pp. P6.10 (1-4)  8-10 Sept. 1997.  Cape Town, South Africa

 

Licskó, I., Lois, L. and Szebényi, G.: Tailings as a source of environmental pollution

In: Proceedings of IAWQ International Conference on: Chemical Process Industries an Environmental Management (Ed: A. Gerber)  pp. P10.14 (1-4)  8-10 Sept. 1997.  Cape Town, South Africa

 

Licskó, I.: Realistic coagulation mechanisms in the use of aluminium and iron(III) salts  In: Proceedings of 4th International Conference on: The Role of Particle Characteristics in Separation Processes   (Ed: K.J. Ives and A. Adin) PP. 92-99 

28-30 Oct. 1996. Jerusalem, Israel

 

Dolejs, P., Holobradá, M. and Licskó, I.: Water-supply reservoirs in the Czech Republic, Slovakia and Hungary,  Aqua 44, Suppl. 1, pp. 18-22, 1995

 

Licskó, I: On the types of bond developing between the aluminium and iron (III) hydroxides and organic substances, Wat. Sci. Techn. 27, No. 11 pp 249-252, 1993

 

Licskó, I: Dissolved organics removal by solid-liquid phase separation (Adsorption and coagulation), Wat. Sci. Techn. 27, 11. pp 245-248, 1993

 

Zotter, K. and Licskó, I: Removal of Chromium(VI) and other heavy metals from groundwaters in neutral and alkaline media, Wat. Sci. Techn. 26, No. 1-2, pp 207-216, 1992

 

Salánki, J., Licskó, I., László, F., V-Balogh, K., Varanka, I., Mastala, Z: Changes in the concentration of heavy metals in the Zala-Minor Balaton-Zala system (water, sediment, aquatic life), Wat. Sci. Techn. 25 No. 11, pp 173-180, 1992

 

            Zotter, K. and Licskó, I: Coagulation and Flocculation in Alkaline Media - The Role of Ca2+ and Mg2+ Ions, in: Chemical Water and Wastewater Treatment (Eds: R Klute and H H Hahn), Springer Verlag Berlin, pp 47-64, 1992

 

            Salánki, J. and Licskó, I: Heavy Metals in Lake Balaton (Case Study), in: Guidelines in Lake Management, Vol. 4. Toxic Substances Management in Lakes and Reservoirs.  Ed: S. Matsui, ILEC, UNEP, 1991

 

            Somlyódy, L., Licskó, I., Fehér, J. and Csányi B: Investigation and Modelling of Cadmium Pollution in the River Sajó, in: Proceedings of IAWPRC Int. Symp. on Hazard Assessment and Control of Environmental Contaminants in Water, (Ed: S. Matsui) Otsu, Japan, 25-28 Nov 1991

 

            Licskó, I: 'Colloid destabilisation in the treatment of surface waters containing colloid stabilising pollutants', in Chemical Water and Wastewater Treatment, (eds H H Hahn and R Klute), Springer-Verlag Berlin, pp 55-73, 1990

           

            Licskó, I: 'Intensifications of clarifiers with tube settlers (Experiences in Hungary)', Proceedings of International Conference on Modern Methods of Water Treatment, Pribram, pp 282-297, 22-24 May, 1990

 

            Licskó, I: 'New experimental technique for measuring the growth of aluminium and iron (III) hydroxide flocs in the treatment of surface water', Water Supply 8, pp 45-52, Jönköping, 24-26 April 1990

 

            Zotter, K. and Licskó, I: 'Chromium removal in a groundwater pollution emergency', 5th International Conference on Solid Wastes, Sludges and Residual Materials: Characterisation, Technology, Management and Public Policy, Rome, pp 673-680, 26-29 April 1989

 

            Licskó, I: 'The use of sludge and sulphide to remove heavy metals from sewages before activated sludge treatment', Water Science and Technology 20 4/5, pp 285-292, 1988

 

            Licskó, I. and Szakál, F: Possibility of lowering the aluminium concentration in drinking water from water works drawing on surface water in Hungary', in Heavy Metals in the Hydrological Cycle, (eds M Astruc and J N Lester), SELPER Ltd, pp 629-636, London, 1988

 

            Licskó, I., Zotter, K. and Szakál, F: 'Sensitivity of reservoir waters to acid deposition in North Hungary', in Acid rain: Scientific and Technical Advances, (ed R Perry), SELPER Ltd, pp 323-330, London 1987

 

            Zotter, K., Licskó, I. and Szakál, F: 'Clarification of surface waters affected by acid rain', in Acid Rain: Scientific and Technical Advances, (ed R Perry), SELPER Ltd, pp 391-398, London, 1987

 

            Licskó, I. and Zotter, K: 'Modification of the treatment technology of waters affected by acid rain', Water Quality Bulletin 11/4, pp 190-195, 1986


 

Licskó, I: 'Treatment of groundwater containing Chromium (VI) compounds', Proceedings of International Conference on Chemicals in the Environment, pp 281-287, Lisbon, 1-3 July 1986

 

Licskó, I: 'Removal of heavy metals by surface water treatment processes (clarification, sand filtration)', Proceedings of International Conference on Chemicals in the Environment, pp 102-109, Lisbon, 1-3 July 1986

 

Licskó, I. and Takács, I: 'Heavy metal removal in the presence of colloid-stabilising organic material and complexing agents', Wat. Sci. Techn. 18,  Antwerp.  pp 19-29, 1986

 

Licskó, I. and Uzarowicz, R: 'Removal of heavy metals from wastewaters by coagulation in alkaline media', Proceedings of International Conference on Advanced Wastewater Treatment Methods, Kraków, Tom 2, 43-58, 23-25 Sept 1981

 

Licskó, I: 'Micro processes in coagulation', Water Research 10, pp 143-147, 1976

 

Bulkai, L. and Licskó, I: 'Untersuchungen über die Wechselwirkung von Flocken und Kolloiden bei der Klärung von Oberflächenwässern', VODA 73, Praha, X 30 - XI 1, pp 1-17, 1973