Bálint Sztáray enters his 15h year at Pacific and sixth as the athletic department's Faculty Athletic Representative in 2023-24.
Sztáray received his undergraduate and graduate degrees in Chemistry at Eötvös Loránd University, the leading research university in Hungary. After a post-doctoral scholarship at University of North Carolina, he was appointed Assistant Professor at his alma mater.
In 2008, he joined University of the Pacific as Associate Professor in Chemistry and was promoted to Professor in 2016. His research areas are gas-phase physical chemistry / chemical physics; using photoionization methods to study the energetics and dissociation mechanisms of small molecules and reactive intermediates and published around eighty peer-reviewed articles. He served as the founding Director of the Freshman Honors Program at Pacific and was the University Marshal for several years.
