MORE WORK FOR FEMCHEM’S CHAIR BETTINA MIHALYI as Dean of Academic Affairs
AS FOUNDING MEMBER and current chair, Bettina Mihalyi has played a key role in the establishment of FemChem and in defining its role within the Faculty. In 2020, she also started a new position as Dean of Academic Affairs at the Faculties of Mechanical & Industrial Engineering and Technical Chemistry – just a few weeks before the Covid-19 lockdown reached TU Wien. Without any time for preparation, Bettina Mihalyi successfully managed to implement the distance learning guidelines at the Faculty.
On behalf of FemChem, we really want to congratulate her on her new position and want to use this opportunity to introduce her to you in the following:
Bettina Mihalyi studied Technical Chemistry with a specialization in Chemical Engineering at the Vienna University of Technology. For her master thesis she went to the Institute of Analytical Chemistry at the University of Veszprém in Hungary to investigate the backscattering effect of inorganic compounds in atmospheric aerosols.
After the birth of her two daughters, she worked as a freelancer at the Institute for Technology Assessment (ITA) of the Austrian Academy of Sciences in a project about integrated environmental technologies for one year. Subsequently she started her doctorate at the Institute of Chemical, Environmental and Bioscience Engineering at the Vienna University of Technology in the field of fiber technology and received her doctorate in 2007.
Her research today deals with the development of new, environmentally friendly processes for the use of renewable raw materials as a chemical feedstock in a multiproduct biorefinery. Parallel to this scientific research, she started with the development and implementation of models for an ex ante life cycle assessment (LCA) and sustainability analysis as a decision support in process design towards a sustainable development.
As vice chair of the Studies Commission (2010 – 2019) for Technical Chemistry, she has played a very active role in the development of the specialization “Sustainable Technologies and Environmental Technology” in the master course Technical Chemistry. As a co-founder, she is member of FemChem since its establishment in 2016 and is chair of FemChem since December 2018.
In her private life, she spends as much time as possible in nature, running, hiking, skiing or mountain biking, preferably together with her partner, her three kids and/or friends. As many chemists, she loves to cook special dishes. In addition to her professional career, she graduated in craniosacral biodynamics.