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CURRICULUM VITAE
Name: János Kertész

Studies:

- 1976 Diploma in Physics, Eotvos University Budapest

- 1976 - 1978 Fellowship of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences (HAS)

- 1980 Dr. rer nat. Thesis: Atomic dynamics of simple liquids. Supervisor: Prof. T. Geszti (at the Institute of Technical Physics (ITP) of the HAS)

Habilitation or equivalent:

- 1989 Doctor of Physical Sciences (D.Sc., HAS)

Occupations:

- 1978 - 1979 Junior Scientist at the ITP

- 1979 - 1989 Fellow of the ITP

- 1990 - 1991 Senior Research Fellow of the ITP

- 1991 - 1993 Scientific Advisor at the ITP

- 1992 - Scientific Advisor, from 1993 Professor of Physics at the Budapest University of Technology and Economics (BME)

- 1992 - 2000 Deputy Director of the Insitute of Physics at BME

- 1995 - 2007 Head of the Department of Theoretical Physics at BME

- 2001 - Director of the Institute of Physics at BME
                           

Fellowships:

- 1975 -1976 Fellowship of the Republic

- 1976-1978 Fellowship of the HAS

- 1980-1981 DAAD-Stipendium at the Cologne University

- 1989-1991 A.v.Humboldt-Fellowship at the Cologne University

Further Employments Abroad:

- 1981 - 1982 Research fellow at the Cologne University

- 1982 - 1983 Visiting scholar at the TU München

- 1988 - 1989 and  1991 Visiting professor at the Cologne University

- One-three months stays: Saclay (France), Naples (Italy), Boston (USA, several times), Duisburg (Germany), Cambridge (UK), Cologne (Germany, several times), Jülich (Germany, several times), Helsinki (Finland, several times), Santa Fe (USA)

Activities Related to Science:

- 1985 - 1990 Secretary of the Committee for Statistical Physics of the Hungarian Physical Society

- 1994 - 1997 Secretary of the Committee for Statistical Phyics of the HAS

- 1997 - 2001 Chairman of the Committee for Statistical Phyics of the HAS

- 1996 - 1999 Chair of the Controller's Committee of the Hungarian Physical Society

- Organizer and coorganizer of several conferences, schools and workshops, including international ones (Budapest 1987: Pattern formation, Cologne 1989: Surface growth, Les Houches 1992: Surface disordering, Budapest 1996: Advances in computer simulation, Budapest 1997: Econophysics, Budapest 1999: NATO ARW on Applications of Statistical Physics, Bali 2002: Econophysics, Workshop on Strengthening Computational Science in Europe, Jülich, chairman of "Fluctuations and Noise in Finance and Complex Systems", Florence, 2007, technical chairman of "Complex 2009" Shanghai, 2009)

- Member of the Programme Committees at conferences (Budapest 1993: Fractals, Balatonszeplak 1995: Gels, Cracow 1996: Physics Computing, Jülich, 1996: Friction, Dublin 1999: Econophysics, Aachen CCP2001, Bangalore 2004: STATPHYS 22 , Canberra 2005: Econophysics Colloqium, Palermo 2006: Grid Computing in Risk Management)

- Member of the Editorial Boards or Advisory Boards of Journal of Physics A (1990-1994), Physica A (1990-), Fractals (1993-2003, 2008-) and Fluctuation and Noise Letters (2001-2003); European Managing Editor of "Fractals" (2004-2008)

- Board Member of the Computational Physics Group of EPS (1996-)

- Board Member of the Statistical and Nonlinear Physics Division of EPS (1996-2008)

- Member of the Scientific Council of the Neumann Institute for Computing Jülich (1996-2001, 2004-)

- Head of the Physics Panel of the Hungarian National Science Foundation (2003-2005)

Honours:

- 1984 Jung Scientist Prize of the HAS

- 1987 Novobátzky Award of the Hungarian Physical Society

- 1989 Academy Award

- 1997 - Adjunct Professor at the University of Technology Helsinki

- 2001 - Member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences

- 2006 Arnold Ipolyi Award of the Hungarian National Science Foundation

- 2010-2014 "Finland Distinguished Professor" of the Academy of Finland and TEKES

- 2010 "Santa Chiara Prize" for multidisciplinary teaching (University of Siena)

- 2011 Albert Szent-Gyorgyi Award for teaching and scientific achievements by the Ministry of Culture and Education

- 2014 Szechenyi Award of the President of Hungary for internationally recognized results in statistical physics and its applications, especially in network science.