BIRTH
    1960, Budapest, Hungary

NATIONALITY
    Hungarian

AFFILIATION
    Centre for Energy Research MTA-EK-MFA of the Hung. Acad. of Sciences
    H-1525 Budapest, POB 49, Hungary

EDUCATION
    Studied electrical engineering and graduated from Technical University of Budapest
    (1984) (diploma thesis : Band structure calculation of non-metallic complex materials)
    Doctor of Eotvos  Univ. 1989 (thesis : Renormalization group studies in real and
    momentum space)
    University of  Illinois at Chicago (1991-1993) MSc. in Physics.
    PhD. in Statistical Physics at Eotvos  Univ. 1996.
    Doctor of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences 2004.
    (thesis : Universality classes in nonequilibrium systems )

AWARDS
     2-nd prize at Annual Scientific Conference of Technical University 1983.
     Schmid Rezso prize of the Hungarian Physical Society 2002.
     Bolyai plaquette of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences 2003.
     NVIDIA Professor Partner award 2010.
     Outstanding Referee award of the American Physical Society 2013.

GRANTS
    NATO Collaborative Research Grant (With the U. of Porto) 1997-99.
    Hungarian research fund OTKA 1998-2003, 2004-2007, 2009-2012.
    Collaborative Research Grant of the Saxonian governmet (with FZD Dresden) 2006.
    FP7-ICT-2009-4 OSIRIS project 2010-2011
    FuturICT TAMOP project 2013-2014

SCHOLARSHIPS, FELLOWSHIPS
    1988  Soros visiting scholarship at the Dep. of Appl. Math. and Thy. Physics.
    Univ. of Liverpool
    1990-91 CERN Research Associate
    1991-93 Teaching and research fellowship at the University of Illinois at Chicago,
    Physics Dep.
    1999-2002  Bolyai scientific scholarship
    2000-2001  CERN Research Associate
    DAAD-MOB Collaborative Research Grant with FZD Dresden 2008-2009.
    DAAD-MOB Collaborative Research Grant with FZD Dresden 2010-2011.
    HPC-Europa2 collaborative visits in Barcelona 2009,2011,2012

EMPLOYMENT
    1984- Central Research Institute for Physics (KFKI), Budapest, researcher.

POSITION HELD
    Scientific research fellow 1989-1996.
    Senior scientific research fellow in the Theoretical Physics Group 1996-2004.
    Scientific Advisor in the Complex Systems Group since 2004.

MEMBERSHIPS
    Council of Researchers of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences 1997 -
    Member of the Statistical Phys. Committee of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences 2012 -

CURRENT RESEARCH INTERESTS
    Theory of phase transitions
    Non-equilibrium critical systems
    Surface growth phenomena
    Parallel computing

TEACHING EXPERIENCE
    TA at the Physics Department of the U. of Illinois at Chicago 1991-1993.
    Special Course on Nonequilibrium Universality at
    the Dep. of Complex System of the Eotvos Lorand U. 2008-.

LANGUAGE SKILLS
    Fluent in English
    French fair
    Reading, writing in Russian
    German fair

Nov, 2016