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
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