Hungarian Academy of Sciences KFKI Atomic Energy Research Institute
1121 Budapest, Konkoly Thege Miklós út 29-33., Hungary * Letters: H-1525 Budapest 114, P.O.B. 49. * Tel: +36 1 392 2222 * aeki@aeki.kfki.hu

Curriculum Vitae

Breitner Dániel

Personal Details

Name: Breitner Dániel

Date and place of birth: 16 October 1981,

Nationality: Hungarian

Home address: Fény utca 2, H-1024, Budapest

E-mail: breitner@aeki.kfki.hu

Education and Degrees

2006-

PhD student at the Environmental Doctoral School, Eötvös University, Budapest

2000-2006

Eötvös University, Budapest (ELTE)

Professional Experience

2009-

Hungarian Academy of Sciences, KFKI Atomic Energy Research Institute

geologist

2008

Visitor scientist at Radiochemical Laboratory (Finland), in cooperation with the Radiation and Nuclear Safety Authority, Finland (STUK) and the Geological Survey of Finland

1st June-31st Oct. 2008.

2007-2008

CIMO national Finnish scholarship at the Radiochemical Laboratory, Helsinki University, Finland

1st Oct. 2007-31st May 2008.

2005-2006

Visitor scientist in Radiation and Nuclear Safety Authority, Finland (STUK), in cooperation with the Geological Survey of Finland

10th May-23rd Nov. 2005., 23rd Oct.-4th Dec. 2006.

2002

Radon monitoring in Himachal Pradesh region (India) in co-operation with Guru Nanak Dev University

17-19 March. 2002.

Research Interest

Environmental geochemistry, migration processes of natural radionuclides in the geoenvironment

Awards

2006

2nd place at the 10th Conference of Young Hungarian Environment Scientists, Eger (Hungary), 2006

2006

3rd place at the 37th Annual Conference of Young Hungarian Earth Scientist, Balatonkenese (Hungary)

2005

2nd place at the 27th National Scientific Conference of Students held at Eötvös University, Budapest (Hungary), 2005

2004

3rd place at the 9th Conference of Young Hungarian Environment Scientists, at Eötvös University, Budapest (Hungary)

Publications

Dániel Breitner, Hannu Arvela, Karl-Heinz Hellmuth, Tommi Renvall, (2010) Effect of moisture content on emanation at different grain size fraction – A pilot study on granitic esker sand sample, Journal of Environmental Radioactivity, 101, 11, pp. 1002-1006.

Éva Hedvig Nagy, Dániel Breitner, Ákos Horváth, Csaba Szabó (2011) Study of a passive radon mitigation process and indoor radon concentration’s time dependence after mitigation, Carpathian Journal of Earth and Environmental Sciences, 6, 2, pp. 143-149.

Zoltan Siklosy, Zoltan Kern, Attila Demeny, Sebastian Pilet, Szabolcs Leel-Ossy, Ke Lin, Chuan-Chou Shen, Eva Szeles and Daniel Breitner (2011) Speleothems and pine trees as sensitive indicators of environmental pollution – A case study of the effect of uranium-ore mining in Hungary, Applied Geochemistry, 26, pp. 666-678.

M. Voutilainen, S. Lamminmäki, J. Timonen, M. Siitari-Kauppi and D. Breitner (2009) Physical Rock Matrix Characterization: Structural and Mineralogical Heterogeneities in Granite, Scientific Basis for Nuclear Waste Management XXXII, Mater. Res. Soc. Symp. Proc. Vol. 1124, Q07-03.

Dániel Breitner, Tuukka Turtiainen, Hannu Arvela, Pia Vesterbacka, Bo Johanson, Marja Lehtonen, Karl-Heinz Hellmuth, Csaba Szabó (2008) Multidisciplinary analysis of Finnish esker sediment in radon source identification, Science of the Total Environment, 405, pp. 129-139

Nagy, H., Horváth, Á., Breitner, D. & Szabó, Cs. (2007) A pilot radon study at Kõvágószõlõs - a detected inheritance of uranium mining. 2nd International Seminar ECOMINING - Europe in 21st century”. 24- 26 October, 2007, Sovata & Praid Salt Mine, Romania, Capacity building on the ECOMINING principle: proceedings of the second international seminar, ECOMINING- Europe in 21st century (ISBN 978- 973- 741- 071- 9), pp. 70- 80.

Breitner, D., Horváth, Á., Gál-Solymos, K., Nagy-Balogh, J. And Szabó, Cs. (2006): The role of Building materials in indoor radon concentration – a Hungarian case study. Second Europian IRPA Congress on radiation Protection, 15-19 May 2006, Paris, France, Proceeding of Full Papers CD-Rom.

Rajnai, G., Nagy-Balogh, J., Marosvölgyi, K., Gál-Sólymos, K., Konc, Z., Breitner, D., Barabás, A., Szabó, Cs. (2006): Geochemical studies of potential source minerals of radon: case studies in Hungary. Second Europian IRPA Congress on radiation Protection, 15-19 May 2006, Paris, France, Proceeding of Full Papers CD-Rom.

Breitner, D., Horváth, Á., Gál-Sólymos, K., Nagy-Balogh, J., Tóth, E. & Szabó, Cs. (2006): The role of building materials in indoor radon concentration – a Hungarian case study, in Environmental Geochemical State of Hungary (ed. G., Szendrei), MTA special edition, ISBN-10: 963-508-521-4, pp. 129-138 (in Hungarian with English abstract)

Nagy-Balogh, J., Szabó, Cs., Gál-Sólymos, K., Barabás, A., Breitner, D., Rajnai, G., Konc, Z., Tóth, E. & Molnár, Zs. (2006): Uranium- and thorium-bearing minerals as potential sources of the elevated indoor radon concentration in Environmental Geochemical State of Hungary (ed. G., Szendrei), MTA special edition, MTA special edition, ISBN-10: 963-508-521-4, pp. 119-128 (in Hungarian with English abstract)

Membership

2009-

Association of Applied Geochemists

2000-

Hungarian Geological Society