BIRTH
    February 21, 1950, Budapest, Hungary

Nationality
    Hungarian

Family status
    married, 3 children

Affiliation
    HUN-REN Centre for Energy Research,
    Research Institute for Technical Physics and Materials Science
    H-1525 Budapest, Konkoly Thege Miklós út 29-33, Hungary

Education
    studied physics and graduated from Eötvös University of Budapest in 1974
    doctoral degree from physics in 1976 at Eötvös University.
    doctor of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences (2007)

Scholarships, fellowships
    1977-78 Scuola Normale Superiore of Pisa (Italy) under G. C. Wick.
    1998 University of Porto (Portugal)

Employment
    1976-82 Eötvös University of Budapest, assistant professor
    1982-92 Microelectronic Research Institute, Central Research Institute for Physics, Budapest, researcher
    1992-2020 Research Institute for Technical Physics and Materials Science, Budapest

Position held
    leader of Complex Systems Group (1992-2020)
    retired, scientific adviser (2020-)
    part time scientific adviser at Institute of Evolution, HUN-REN Centre for Ecological Research (2021-)

Research interests
    evolutionary games on graphs
    interplay of elementary interactions, dynamics and connectivities
    self-organization in complex systems
    driven lattice gases, cellular automata
    ordering in superionic conductors and alloys

Honours and Awards
    Awards of Physics (2006)
    Outstanding Referee of APS (2009)
    Distinguished Referee of EPL (2010)
    Hungarian Order of Merit, Officier's Cross (2015)
    Hungarian Academy Award (2016)
    Széchenyi Award (2021)