Edit Székely is a full professor at the Department of Chemical and Environmental Process Engineering, Faculty of Chemical Technology and Biotechnology of the Budapest University of Technology and Economics (BME). She graduated as a biochemical engineer in 2000 at BME and completed her PhD (2004) in chemical- biochemical- and environmental engineering sciences and her DSc (2021) in chemical sciences. She has been the head of the High-Pressure Technologies research Laboratory since 2014, with major research and development interest in the innovative applications of sub- and supercritical fluids, especially carbon dioxide and water. She is engaged to promote modern teaching methodologies applicable at university level education. She serves as a delegate of Hungary in the High Pressure Technologies Working Party and as vice-chair of the Working Party on Education of the European Federation of Chemical Engineering. Keywords: supercritical fluids, enantiomer, hydrothermal, carbon dioxide, education