Out of the six researchers selected as Academia Europaea members from Hungary in 2023, four are affiliated with HUN-REN research sites. They are joining numerous other Hungarian members in participating in the organisation's 34th Annual Conference, taking place in Munich from 9-11 October.
On 9 October, Mária Deli, a scientific advisor at the HUN-REN Biological Research Centre in Szeged and a recent member of Academia Europaea, delivered a presentation titled ‘New frontiers in modelling the blood-brain barrier’. On 10 October Balázs Gulyás, President of HUN-REN will present the laudation for Eugene Yeo, who will be honoured with the 2023 Sydney Brenner Medal during the event for his work 'RNA binding protein networks in evolution, health and disease’. Balázs Gulyás coordinates the Sydney Brenner Medal and the Erasmus Medal award programme, with the latter being presented to Professor Jean-Pierre Changeux this year for his work 'The brain as a chemical machine: importance of allosteric receptors’. Éva Kondorosi, a research professor at the HUN-REN Biological Research Centre in Szeged is also participating in the conference and will be chairing the afternoon program on 10 October.
This year, six researchers from Hungary were elected as members of the Academia Europaea, four of whom work at the research institutions of the Hungarian Research Network (HUN-REN).
Péter Batáry, Doctor of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, scientific advisor at the HUN-REN Centre for Ecological Research, and leader of the “Lendület” Landscape and Conservation Ecology Research Group
Péter Domokos, a full member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Deputy Director General of the HUN-REN Wigner Research Centre for Physics, Director of the Institute for Solid State Physics and Optics
György Miklós Keserű, corresponding member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, head of the Medicinal Chemistry Research Group at the HUN-REN Research Centre for Natural Sciences
Maria Lugaro, Doctor of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, senior research fellow at the Konkoly Thege Miklós Astronomical Institute of the HUN-REN Research Centre for Astronomy and Earth Sciences, “Lendület” and ERC research group leader
Founded in 1988, the Academia Europaea has over 5,000 members, including many 80 Nobel laureates. The objective of the prestigious pan-European institution includes promoting and disseminating the results of European research, supporting interdisciplinary and international research collaborations, and raising social awareness of the importance of such scientific research.