Valéria CSÉPE is research professor at the Research Centre of Natural Sciences (RCNS), professor of cognitive psychology and neuroscience,and ordinary member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences and the Academia Europaea.  Her research focuses on the behavioral and brain correlates of typical and atypical cognitive development from infancy to adulthood. The research group of Neurocognitive Development founded by her at the Brain Imaging Centre of RCNS, investigates brain correlates related to the development of language, reading, music, executive functions and probabilistic learning. She served as deputy secretary general of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, elected for two terms (2008–2014), g the first female in such a high position there. Between 2012 and 2018 she worked for the strategic committee of the International Council of Science (ICSU) and took part in the preparatory works of the newly merged (ICSU and ISSC) organization, the International Science Council She is president, appointed in 2016 and 2018, of the Hungarian High Education Accreditation Committee (HAC). As of 2017 she is principal investigator of the national curriculum redesign and implementation project in Hungary. She is member of the Education 2030 focus group as well as invited expert of the Research Precariat Scoping Group of the OECD.