Management

Member of the Board – Consultant

Dr. Pavlath received his diploma in Chemical Engineering in 1952 from the Technical University of Budapest and his doctorate from the Hungarian Academy of Science in 1955. He was elected in 2000 to lead the American Chemical Society, the world largest scientific Society (160,000 members) as its President. He was elected to the Hungarian Academy of Science in 2004. Sixty-four years of involvement in research at academic, government and industrial organizations. Internationally recognized in agricultural, food, fluorine, alternate energy and biodegradable polymer chemistry for his pioneering activities. He received the Pioneer of the Year Award from the American Institute of Chemists in 1997. At the Western Regional Research Center he lead a 25+ member-group from 1967 until his retirement in 2000. Since then he is an Emeritus Research Scientist at that Institute still involved in day-to-day research. He was the U.S. Co-Secretary of the U.S. Japan Agriculture and Food Panel for 20 years. He built strong cooperation between the United States and Japan to share research in agriculture, and organized and attended annual meetings for agricultural researchers of the two countries alternating between the U.S. and Japan. He joined AgroThetis in 2015 as a Consultant Board Member.