Nationality:    Hungarian                                         

Studies:

1985 -  M.Sc. University of Horticulture, Budapest

1997 - Ph.D. Agricultural University of Gödöllő

2006 - Habil. Corvinus University of Budapest

2006 - DSc Hungarian Academy of Sciences

Positions held:

2018 - Rector of the Szent István University

2003 - Head of Plant Pathology Department, Faculty of Horticultural Science, Szent István University

Scientific awards:                

Bolyai János fellowship of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences

(1998-2001) and (2003-2006),

Academic Award (Hungarian Academy of Sciences) 2010

Master's Gold Medal National Council of Student Research

Societies Hungary 2013,

Linhart György Medallion, annual award of the Hungarian Plant Protection Society 2018

Memberships:

President of Committee on Plant Protection of Hungarian Academy of Sciences,

Former secretary of Doctoral Council of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences,

Member of Public Body of Hungarian Academy of Sciences,

Member of Hungarian Society for Microbiology,

Member of International Society of Horticultural Science,

Member of American Phytopathological Society

Languages:

English, Russian, Hungarian (native)

Research interests:

genome organization of potyviruses, virus recombination, virus evolution genetic engineering for virus resistance of plants, molecular diagnostics of plant pathogens, identification of new plant pathogenic fungi and bacteria