2015-2019 Vice-rector for Research, Eötvös Loránd University (ELTE)

2012-2015 Director of Bolyai College, Eötvös Loránd University (ELTE)

2009-2015 Head of Laboratory of Theoretical Chemistry, Eötvös Loránd University (ELTE)

2008- 2010 Head of Department for Inorganic Chemistry, Eötvös Loránd University (ELTE)

2005-2008 Director of the Institute of Chemistry at ELTE, Budapest, Hungary

2003- Professor of chemistry at the Institute of Chemistry at ELTE

1994-2003 Associate professor ("dozent") at ELTE

1986-1994 Assistant professor at the Department of Theoretical Chemistry at ELTE

 

2010-2011 Visiting professor, University of Florida, Quantum Theory Project

2009 Visiting professor, University of Reims, Reims, France

2008 Visiting professor, University of Reims, Reims, France

2003-2004 Fulbright Fellow, University of Texas at Austin, USA with Prof. J.F.Stanton

1996-1997 Scientific research associate, Universität Mainz, Institut für Physikalische Chemie, Mainz, Germany with Prof. J. Gauss

1991-1993 Postdoctoral associate, Quantum Theory Project at University of Florida, Gainesville, FL with Prof. R. J. Bartlett

2022 Hungarian Order of Merit Middle Cross

2022 Elected member of the Academy Europaea

2019 Elected memeber of the International Academy of Quantum Molecular Sciences

2019 Elected memeber of the European Academy of Sciences and Arts

2017 Széchenyi Prize of the Hungarian State (together with Géza Fogarasi and Attila Császár)

2015 Polányi prize of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences

2010-2011 HAESF Fellow

2010 "For the Hungarian Higher Education" Prize by the Department of Education

2003-2004 Fulbright Fellow

1999-2002 Széchenyi Professor

Editorial Board membership:

• International Journal of Quantum Chemistry (2001-)
• Chemical Physics, guest editor: „Electron correlation and molecular Dynamics for excited states and photochemistry, special issue to Honor Prof. Hans Lischka”  (2008)
• Journal of Molecular Modelling, guest editor: „EUCO-CC-9 special issue” (2013-2014)
• Journal of Molecular Modelling, guest editor: „EUCO-TCC-11 special issue” (2017-2018)
• Molecular Physics, guest editor “John Stanton special Issue: Theory Meets Experiment” (2021)
• Chemistry - An international Journal (2019-)

Social activities:

• COST Action D26 member of Management Committee, 2001–2006
• IUPAC Task Group (Selected Free Radicals and Critical Intermediates: Thermodynamic Properties from Theory and Experiment ) meber 2001-2008
• Secretary, FECS, Computational Chemistry Working Party 1995– 2006
• Hungarian Delegate, EuChemS "Computational Chemistry Division"  2006-
• Vice Chair, EuChemS "Computational Chemistry Division",  2011–2016
• Chair, EuChemS "Computational and Theoretical Chemistry Division", since 2017 (newly elected in 2020)
• Vice Secretary, Hungarian Chemical Society since 2011-től (newly elected 2015, 2019)
• Chair, Hungarian Fulbright association 2014-2020, member of the board since 2011
• Member of the Concil, Hungarian Research Grant Agency (OTKA) 2013-2015

Married (Mariann, 1987)

four children: Réka (1990), Ákos (1994), Kinga (1998), Botond (2005)