Curriculum Vitae Name : Mate Erdelyi

Curriculum Vitae Name : Mate Erdelyi
Date of birth: February 11, 1975 Nationality: Hungarian Country of Residence: Sweden
Family: Married Languages: Fluent in English, German, Swedish, and Hungarian
Professional experience
• Assistant professor at the Department of Chemistry, University of Gothenburg, Sweden (4-years
appointment by the Swedish Scientific Research Council, VR2007-4407). October 2008 – present.
Professional preparation
• Undergraduate education:
Semmelweis University, Budapest, Hungary. Master of Science in Pharmacy, summa cum laude,1999.
• Graduate studies:
Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden. Ph.D. in organic chemistry, April 2004 (Ph. Licentiate 2002).
Major research area: peptide and synthetic organic chemistry, microwave assisted synthesis,
photochemistry, spectroscopic and computational structure analysis. Advisor: Prof. Adolf Gogoll.
• Postdoctoral activity:
University of California, San Diego, USA, 2004-2005. Major research area: theoretic physical organic
chemistry, investigation of n-sigma* orbital interactions using NMR. Advisor: Prof. Charles L. Perrin
Max Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry, Göttingen, Germany, 2005-2008. Major research area:
paramagnetic solution NMR, experimental elucidation of dynamics of saccharides, development of
paramagnetic probes (design, synthesis, NMR, computation). Postdoc fellowship of the Swedish
Scientific Research Council, VR2004-3073 (2005-2006). Advisor: Prof. Christian Griesinger.
Max Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry, Göttingen, Germany, 2006-2008. Major research area:
NMR-based structural biology, protein-natural product interactions, solution & protein NMR. Marie
Curie Intra-European Fellowship, FP6 IEF 041136 (2007-2008). Advisor: Prof. Teresa Carlomagno.
Additional research experience
• “NMR-based conformational investigation of berbanes”. Supervisor: Doc. Benjámin Podányi. Chinoin-
Sanofi-Synthelabo Ltd, Budapest, Hungary, 1999.
• “Development of bispidinone and piperazine-based molecular tools for NMR investigation of (piallyl)palladium
complexes. Supervisor: Prof. Adolf Gogoll. Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden, 1998.
• “Rotamicrospeciation of hydroxycarboxylic acids; investigation of excitatory amino acid analogues.”
Supervisor Prof. Béla Noszál. Semmelweis University, Budapest, Hungary, 1995-1998.
Tutoring experience
• Supervisor for two Ph.D. students (Anna-Carin Carlsson, Oren Berger) in organic chemistry, University
of Gothenburg (GU), May 2009-on.
Co-supervisor of a Ph.D. student (Milkyas Endale) in medicinal chemistry, ‘sandwich Ph.D. program’,
collaborative project with the University of Nairobi, Kenya. University of Gothenburg, 2009-on.
• Postdoc supervisor at GU: Susanne Mecklenburg (from Saarland University, Germany, 2009).
• Supervisor for M.Sc. projects (30-60 ECTS each): Claudine Thevenoux (pharmacy, 2010, University of
Gothenburg), Jesse Laurila (chemistry, 2010, University of Gothenburg), Adnan Budnjo (chemical
biology, 2009, University of Gothenburg). Co-supervisor: Johanna Nurbo (pharmacy, 2002, Uppsala
University), Elisabeth Bloom (chemistry, 2003, Uppsala University).
• ERASMUS supervisor: Ezgi Tulkucuoglu from Izmir Institute of Technology, Turkey (chemistry, 2009,
University of Gothenburg). Co-supervisor: Lilia Schwendenwein from University of Wien, Austria
(pharmacy, 2001, Uppsala University)
• Co-supervisor for projects workers (2 months or more): Johanna Nurbo (2001 and 2002, SOFOSKO
program), Ida Niklason (pharmacy, 2002 and 2003), Åsa Persson (2003), Uppsala University, Sweden.
Teaching experience
• Undergraduate education:
• Lecturer (12x3 hours) and course responsible for the advanced organic chemistry course for
pharmacy students (CHEM030). University of Gothenburg, 2009.
• Seminars (2x3 hours) at the ‘advanced organic synthesis’ class given for 5 th years chemistry
students. University of Gothenburg, 2008.
• Lecturer in NMR spectroscopy; seminars and laboratory supervision in organic and organic
pharmaceutical chemistry (sum: 650 hours), curriculum development for courses in chemistry,
pharmacy, and chemical engineering). Uppsala University year 2000-2004.

• Special teaching appointment: teaching of remedial students in organic chemistry. Uppsala
University year 2003.
• Graduate education:
Lecturer (10x3 hours), seminar leader (10x2 hours), supervisor at instrumental practices (10x5x4 hours)
course developer and course responsible for the Ph.D. course ´Small molecular NMR´ (2009).
Other merits of relevance
• Participated in the organization of the 22 nd International Conference on Magnetic Resonance in Biological
Systems in Göttingen, 2006
• Chair of the Small Molecular Session at the EUROMAR Magnetic Resonance Conf., Gothenburg, 2009.
Fellowships
2006: Marie Curie Intra-European Fellowship (FP6 IEF 041136, 2 years, 147.500 €)
Humboldt Postdoctoral Fellowship (1 year, 31.700 €, I didn’t accept it because of the FP6 041136)
2004: Vetenskapsrådet (VR2004-3073), postdoc. Fellowship (32.000 €)
Swedish Pharmaceutical Society, Fellowship (5.400 €)
2003: Swedish Pharmaceutical Society, IF:s Foundation (2.600 €)
2002: Swedish Pharm. Society, CD Carlssons Foundation (2.200 €)
1999-1996: Fellowship of the Hungarian Republic (1.200 €/year)
1998: Fellowship of Pro Renovanda Cultura Hungariae Foundation (500 €)
Fellowship of the Hungarian Pharmaceutical Society (500 €)
Fellowship of the Pharmacy for Health Foundation (500 €)
Fellowship of the Hungarian Academic Student Council (500 €)
Awards
2004: Pedagogic Prize, Uppsala Pharmaceutical Student Association
1999: Mozsonyi Sándor Award
1998: Schulek Elemér Award and Mozsonyi Sándor Award
Funding ID (current grants only, neither previous funds or ongoing applications are not mentioned here)
• Assistant professor position granted by the Swedish Scientific Research Council (VR2007-4407).
Granted ca 460.000 € over 4 years covering my employment and a research grant of ca 23.600 €/year
for the period of 2008-2011.
• Research grant of the Carl Tryggers Foundation (CTS 09:104). Participation: Principal Investigator.
Granted ca 20.800 € for year 2010, for operating costs and for purchase of instrumentation (2010).
• STINT Institutional Grants for Younger Researchers (YR2010-7045). Participation: Principal
Investigator. Granted 124.690 € for 2010-2013 for a collaborative project with Filip Van Petegem at
the University of British Columbia, Canada.
• Research grant of the Åke Wiberg Foundation (811245033). Participation: Principal Investigator
Granted 10.400 € for year 2010.
• The Royal Society of Arts and Sciences in Göteborg. Participation: Principal Investigator. Granted
5.000 € for year 2010.
• Starting grant of the European Research Council (HALOGEN-259638). Participation: Principal
Investigator. Granted 1.495.630 € for the period of 2010-2015.
Publications
ResearcherID: A-3686-2009 Publication list available at: http://halogenbond.weebly.com/
Selected articles from the past 5 years:
(1) “The binding mode of side-chain and C3-modified epothilones to tubulin” Erdelyi, M.; Navarro-Vazquez,
A.; Pfeiffer, B.; Kuzniewski, C.N.; Felser, A.; Widmer, T. et al ChemMedChem 2010, 7, 911-920.
(2) “Conformational preferences of natural and C3-modified epothilones in aqueous solutions”, Erdelyi, M.;
Pfeiffer, B.; Haunstein,K.; Fohrer, J.; Altmann, K.-H.; Carlomagno, T. J.Med.Chem.2008, 51, 1469-73
(3) “Synthesis and conformational analysis of novel stilbene-type peptidomimetics”, Erdelyi, M; Karlen, A.,
Gogoll, A. Chem. Eur.J. 2006, 12, 403-412.
(4) “One-bond C-C coupling constants in ethers are not primarily determined by n-sigma* delocalization”
Perrin, C.L.; Erdelyi, M. J. Am.Chem.Soc. 2005,127, 6168-6169.
(5) Stereochemistry of beta-D-isotope Effects on Amine Basicity” Perrin, C.L.; Ohta, B.; Kuperman, J.;
Liberman, J.; Erdelyi, M. J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2005,127, 9641-9647.