Resume

Principal Investigator

The Microsoft Research - University of Trento Centre for Computational and Systems Biology

Piazza Manci 17, Povo, 38100, Italy

Tel: +39 0461 282824

 

Born:                20 June 1974, Budapest, Hungary

Nationality:         Hungarian; Italian resident

Marital status:    married (Zsuzsanna Halász) 1 child (Emma 2010)

 

Education:

 

Budapest University of

Technology and Economics                   PhD                 2000            Chemistry (Summa cum laude)

Budapest University of

Technology and Economics                   MSc                 1998             Bioengineering

 

Professional Experience:

 

2011 Jan - present

Principal Investigator, The Microsoft Research - University of Trento Centre for Computational and Systems Biology

2007 Jun - 2010 Dec

Researcher, The Microsoft Research - University of Trento Centre for Computational and Systems Biology

2007 Jan - 2007 May

Main Research Fellow, Materials Structure and Modelling Research Group of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences

2004 May - 2007 May  

Assistant Professor, Molecular Network Dynamics Research Group (led by Béla Novák), Dept. of Agricultural Chemical Technology, Budapest University of Technology and Economics

2000 Sep - 2005 Aug

Postdoctoral fellow, Dept. of Agricultural Chemical Technology, Budapest University of Technology and Economics, Hungary (with Béla Novák).

2004 Jan - 2004 Dec    

Postdoctoral fellow, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA, USA, (with John J. Tyson)

2003 Feb – 2003 Jul

Junior fellow, Collegium Budapest, Hungary. Member of the Computational Molecular Biology focus group.

 

Research visits:

 

2010                 PED Harvard, Cambridge, MA, USA, 1 week 

2002                 Santa Fe Institute, Santa Fe, NM, USA. 3 weeks.

1997, 1999       Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA, USA.  3 months (1997), 4 months (1999).

1996                 University of Edinburgh, UK, 2 weeks (visiting Murdoch Mitchison).

 

Honours and Awards:

 

2005                 Bolyai fellowship of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences

2005                 Awarded attendee of the 55th Meeting of Nobel Laureates in Lindau

2000                 Békésy György Postdoctoral fellowship of Hungarian Ministry of Education

1998                 Géza Schay prize, for the best student in theoretical and physical chemistry

1998                 Hungarian Republican fellowship

1996                 TDK scientific competition of students, first prize

  

Memberships:

 

2006-               Hungarian Society for Bioinformatics

2005-               European Society for Mathematical and Theoretical Biology

2004-               Hungarian Biochemical Society

2000-               Hungarian Biological Society

 

Professional Affiliations

 

2005-2007        Member of the Scientific Board of the Bio- and Chemical Engineering Faculty of Budapest University of Technology and Economics

2006-2007        European Society for Mathematical and Theoretical Biology (counselor to the Board)

2009-                Committee member of the International Doctoral School of Biomolecular Sciences of the University of Trento

2009-                Advisory Board member of the Encyclopedia of Systems Biology by Springer

 

Reviewer for journals:

 

Molecular Systems Biology

PLoS Computational Biology

BMC Systems Biology

BMC Bioinformatics
Bioinformatics
Briefings in Bioinformatics

Molecular Biosystems

Journal of Theoretical Biology

Nature Communications

Systems and Synthetic Biology

IET Systems Biology

Physical Review Letters

Genome Biology

DNA Repair

Biophysical Journal

FEBS Journal

PLoS One

Journal of Mathematical Biology

Journal of the Royal Society Interface

Journal of Biological Physics

Bulletin of Mathematical Biology

Mathematical Biosciences

Theoretical Biology and Medical Modelling

Physical Review E

Current Genomics

IEEE/ACM Transactions on Computational Biology and Bioinformatics


Teaching experience:

Lectures (at Budapest University of Technology and Economics):

2005                Cell biology

2003, 2006        Microbial physiology (part of the course)          

2003, 2007        Molecular Network Dynamics

Laboratory courses (at Budapest University of Technology and Economics):

1999-2002        Microbiology of yeast fermentation

1998-1999        Enzyme kinetics for bioengineering

Invited teaching courses on cell cycle modelling and/or molecular network dynamics:

            1999                 University of Kentucky, Lexington, US

            2008                 University of Milan, Italy

            2008                 Politecnico di Torino, Italy

            2008, 2009        Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciência, Oeiras, Portugal