Education and degrees

1953-1954	Winning as a high-school student several prizes in the Hungarian High School Competitions in Mathematics and Physics
1954-1959	Diploma in Physics at Roland Eötvös University, Budapest,
	Thesis: Slowing down time of neutrons in water
1969	Doctor of Physical Sciences (degree given by the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, similar to the Russian degree). Thesis title: Theory of metal-oxide-metal diodes

Positions in Hungary

1954-1959	Physics student at the Roland Eötvös University. The research for the diploma was carried out at the Central Research Institute for Physics, where I could not continue my work because of political reasons.
1959-1962	Research Fellow at the Technical Research Institute for Physics, working on semiconductor physics
1962-1988	First as Research Fellow, later as a Scientific Advisor and as a Research Professor at the Central Research Institute for Physics.
1964-1972	Head of the Theory Group
1975-1979	Chairman of the Scientific Advisory Board of the Solid State Institute
1979-1984	Co-chairman of the Scientific Advisory Board of the Central Research Institute for Physics. In 1984 I resigned as a protest against the scientific policy of the institute.
1989	Research Professor at the Roland Eötvös University
1992-2000	Director of the Institute of Physics at the Technical University of Budapest
2000-2006	Professor of Physics at the Technical University of Budapest
2006-	Professor Emeritus at the Technical University of Budapest

Educational activity in Hungary

1962-1992	Several advanced courses ath the Roland Eötvös University on solid state physics and many-body physics
1992-	Teaching solid state physics at the Technical University of Budapest

Positions abroad

1967	Fellowship ath the Landau Institute in Moscow
1969-1970	Visiting associate professor at University of Virginia, Charlottesville
1970	Several times visiting positions at the Laue-Langevin Institute, Grenoble and once at École Normale, Paris
1974-1976	Visiting professor at Rutgers University and at University of Illinois.
1979	Several visits for few months at University of Illinois, UCLA and Rutgers University.
1981-1983	Visiting professor at UCLA and at University of Illinois.
1987-1989	Visiting professor at UCLA and at University of Illinois.

Awards and Honorary titles

1975	Prize of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences
1979	Hungarian State Prize
1980	Honorary Professor of the Roland Eötvös University
1990	Member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences
1997	Humboldt Prize
2003	Széchenyi Prize

Committees, Educational boards, etc.

1971-2005	Member of the Editorial Board of Solid State Communications
1976	Member of the Editorial Board, later Advisory Board of Advances in Physics
1981-1986	Member of the Committee of Condensed Matter Physics of IUPAP
1984-	Member of the Metal Physics Committee of the European Physics Society
1990-1993	Vice-president of the Hungarian Eötvös Loránd Physical Society
1995-	Member of the Board of the European Physics Society Condensed Matter Division