**Andr ´as Sz ´ek ´acs**

Andras Sz ´ ek´ acs, PhD in chemistry, Doctor of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, is a professor ´ at the Hungarian University of Agriculture and Life Sciences (MATE), Deputy Director of the Insitute of Environmental Sciences, and Head of the Agro-Environmental Research Centre and of the Department of Environmental Analysis and Technology. He is also a honorary professor at the Budapest University of Technology and Economics (BME). His main fields of research are chemical and environmental safety of agricultural and chemical technologies (including mycotoxins, pesticides, genetically modified crops, surfactants, anthropogenic contaminants, etc.), as well as instrumental and immunoanalysis of organic micropollutants. Currently, he is a member of the Management Board of the European Food Safety Authority, and he is a member of the Scientific Advisory Body of the OECD Co-operative Research Programme. The number of his peer reviewed publications: 208, cumulated impact factor 288.1, h-index: 25.
