2017 Burgen Scholars - Budapest#
Nine 2017 Burgen Scholars who had been nominated by the Hungarian AE members at the Hungarian Academy of Sciences were each presented with a certificate and book prize (provided by World Scientific Publishing Ltd).
Balázs Gulyás, Dömötör Pálvölgyi, Deodáth Zuh, Gergely Maróti, Éva Dékány, Donald Dingwell, Sierd Cloetingh, Brigitta Tóth, Eva Doka, Péter Vancsó, Balázs Pozsgai, Balázs Enyedi
AFFILIATION: Research Institute for Linguistics of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences
LINK TO WEBPAGE: http://www.nytud.hu/depts/tlp/dekany/index.html
PERSONAL WEBPAGE: https://sites.google.com/site/dekanylinguistics/home
FIELD OF SCHOLARSHIP: Linguistics
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Éva Dékány was born on March 18, 1983 in Kecskemét, Hungary. She graduated from Eötvös University (Budapest) as an M.A. in English Language and Linguistics in 2006 and as an M.A. in Theoretical Linguistics (with distinction) in 2007. She pursued a doctoral degree at the Center for the Advanced Study of Theoretical Linguistics at the University of Tromsø between 2007 and 2011, defending her PhD thesis in 2012. Since 2012, she has been working at the Research Institute for Linguistics of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences (RIL HAS). Between 2013 September and 2017 August, she held two successive postdoctoral grants from HAS. In 2016 she received the József Herman Young Researcher’s Prize from RIL HAS and the Prima Junior Award from the Prima Primissima Foundation. As of 2017 September, she is the holder of a Premium postdoctoral grant from the Academy.
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AFFILIATION: National Institute of Oncology, Budapest, Hungary
LINK TO WEBPAGE: http://www.onkol.hu/en/department-molecular-immunology-and-toxicology-mito
FIELD OF SCHOLARSHIP: Chemistry
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Place of studies: University of Debrecen
MSc in Chemistry, 2012
BSc in Mathematics, 2013
PhD in Chemical Sciences, 2016
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AFFILIATION: Department of Physiology, Semmelweis University
FIELD OF SCHOLARSHIP: Cell Biology and Physiology
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Balázs Enyedi obtained his medical degree with honours from the Semmelweis University, Budapest in 2006. He joined the laboratory of Miklós Geiszt as a graduate student to study the intracellular role of hydrogen peroxide. After completing his PhD thesis in 2011 he was invited as a postdoctoral fellow to Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center (New York) to the laboratory of Philipp Niethammer, where he was funded by the Lucille Castori fellowship. His research interest shifted towards understanding the mechanisms of tissue damage induced inflammation. His discoveries here earned him publications in prominent journals such as Nature Cell Biology and Cell.
Balázs has published close to 20 research and review papers and has been invited to several prestigious Gordon and Keystone conferences as a speaker. He was the recipient of the Junior Príma Prize from the Prima Foundation in Hungary and the Premium Post Doctorate Scholarship of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences. He holds a Starting Grant from the Semmelweis University where he was recently appointed as an Assistant Professor to establish his laboratory in the Department of Physiology.
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AFFILIATION: Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Biological Research Center
LINK TO WEBPAGE: http://www.brc.hu/biochem_microbial_genomics.php
FIELD OF SCHOLARSHIP: Biology
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PhD in Biology (2005), University of Szeged, Hungary Title of thesis: Insights into the assembly of NiFe hydrogenases Post-Doctoral position at the J. Craig Venter Institute, Rockville, Maryland, USA. Member of the Synthetic Biology & Bioenergy Team led by the Nobel-Laureate Hamilton O. Smith. Associate Professor at the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Biological Research Center since 2012. More than 70 international publications in the field of microbiology.
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AFFILIATION: Eötvös Loránd University (ELTE Budapest), head of MTA-ELTE Combinatorial Geometry Research Group
LINK TO WEBPAGE: http://www.cs.elte.hu/~dom
FIELD OF SCHOLARSHIP: Mathematics
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Dömötör Pálvölgyi obtained his PhD degree in mathematics from the Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) in 2010, after which he worked in various positions at the Mathematical Institute of the Eötvös Loránd University (ELTE Budapest). He was also a visiting professor at IIT Delhi (2012 spring) and a research fellow at the University of Cambridge (2015-2017). He won the Grünwald Géza medal of the János Bolyai Mathematical Society (2011), the János Bolyai Scholarship of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences (2012), the Postdoctoral Fellowship of the Hungarian Scientific Research Fund (2012), the Marie Sklodowska-Curie Fellowship (IF-EF) of the European Commission (2015) and the Momentum (Lendület) grant of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences (2017).
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AFFILIATION: Hungarian Academy of Sciences (Office for Research Groups Attached to Universities and Other Institutions of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences)
LINK TO WEBPAGE: http://sft.phy.bme.hu
FIELD OF SCHOLARSHIP: Physics
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I obtained an MSc and later a PhD in Physics at the Eötvös University, Budapest. Afterwards I spent 3 years (2010-2012) as a postdoctoral researcher in Amsterdam, at the University of Amsterdam. In the first year I was applied by Jean-Sébastien Caux, and afterwards I got the VENI grant of the NWO (The Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research). In 2013 I returned to Budapest to work in the recently started research group of Gábor Takács (MTA-BME “Momentum’’ Statistical Field Theory Research Group), and I also obtained the Magyary Zoltán Fellowship. Currently I am applied by the Hungarian Academy of Sciences through the Premium Postdoctoral Program. In 2014 I won the hungarian “Junior Prima” prize in the category of “Hungarian Science”.
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AFFILIATION: Institute for Soil Sciences and Agricultural Chemistry, Centre for Agricultural Research, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, and Department of Crop Production and Soil Science, Georgikon Faculty, University of Pannonia, Deák
LINK TO WEBPAGE: http://mta-taki.hu/en/tagok/toth-brigitta
FIELD OF SCHOLARSHIP: Agricultural sciences
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Brigitta Tóth is a senior soil scientist of Institute for Soil Sciences and Agricultural Chemistry, Centre for Agricultural Research, Hungarian Academy of Sciences (ISSAC CAR HAS), Budapest and adjunct professor at the University of Pannonia (UP) in Keszthely, Hungary. She obtained her PhD in soil physics in 2011. Her main research focus is on obtaining information on soil hydraulic properties at local, regional and continental scale to improve our understanding on the role of soils in agricultural production and ecosystems services, and their influence on drought, excess inland water and erosion sensitivity.
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AFFILIATION: Institute of Technical Physics and Materials Science, Centre for Energy Research of Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest, Hungary (currently postdoc at University of Namur)
LINK TO WEBPAGE: http://www.nanotechnology.hu
FIELD OF SCHOLARSHIP: Engineering Science
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Péter Vancsó graduated in Physics at Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest in 2010. Between 2010-2015 he worked as an Assistant Research Fellow at the Institute of Technical Physics and Materials Science (MFA) in the group of Prof. László P. Biró. He received his Ph. D. in 2015 with a thesis on the electronic properties of graphene. Since 2016, Péter Vancsó has been a postdoctoral researcher at University of Namur, Belgium. In a group led by Prof. Philippe Lambin he is investigating electronic, magnetic and transport properties of different two-dimensional layered materials. He was a recipient of the Young Researcher Award of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences in 2016. Besides his scientific research, he is also active in the popularization of science among high school students.
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AFFILIATION: Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Research Centre for the Humanities, Institute of Philosophy
FIELD OF SCHOLARSHIP: History of Philosophy, Phenomenology, Philosophy of Art
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I finished my PhD at the Eötvös Loránt University of Budapest and the Babeș-Bolyai University of Cluj with an investigation in Edmund Husserl’s philosophy of knowledge and its beginnings in his philosophy of arithmetic and his seminal but still relevant studies on the logic of signs. Currently I work as a research fellow at the Hungarian Academy of Sciences. Due to my training in German language resp. German philosophy and my constantly growing interest in Austro-Hungarian intellectual history, in the last few years I have made progress in encompassing the partly uncharted territories of Hungarian pre-war intelligentsia. Even though my serious interest in the group of intellectuals around the young Georg Lukács and Béla Balázs, the very group that underwent serious research not to mention the decade-long process of collecting their records, there is still enough work to do both in processing primary material and in re-evaluating the results of an established scholarship.
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