The new leaders of the Faculty and the Institutes
Several leadership appointments, including applications for deputy dean and institute director positions, were decided by the Faculty Council at its meeting on June 12.
Viktor Müller, Deputy Dean for Educational Affairs, and László Túri, Deputy Dean for Scientific and International Relations, will continue their deputy dean roles for the next four years. The responsibilities of the Deputy Dean for Strategic and Innovation Affairs will be taken over by Dr. Mádlné Szőnyi Judit, Professor and Head of the Department of General and Applied Geology.
The Council also decided on the applications for institute director positions. Among the previous leaders, Sándor Katz, Director of the Institute of Physics and Astronomy, and István Szalai, Director of the Institute of Chemistry, will continue their leadership roles. Enikő Magyari, Professor in the Department of Environmental and Landscape Geography, will take over the leadership of the Institute of Geography and Earth Sciences from Szabolcs Harangi. In the Institute of Biology, the current director, Ádám Miklósi, will hand over the leadership to Gábor M. Kovács, Professor and Head of the Department of Plant Anatomy. Péter Sziklai, Professor and Head of Department, will replace Péter Simon as the Director of the Institute of Mathematics. Each position received one application, and the newly elected institute directors will serve for three years starting August 1.
The Faculty Council expressed its gratitude to Péter Simon, outgoing Deputy Dean for Strategic and Innovation Affairs, and to Szabolcs Harangi, Ádám Miklósi, and Péter Simon for their valuable work as directors, wishing them continued success in their research.
The Faculty Council also voted on several department head applications, resulting in the following newly elected department heads:
Institute of Biology
- Department of Ethology: Enikő Kubinyi
- Department of Physiology and Neurobiology: Árpád Dobolyi
- Department of Plant Physiology and Molecular Biology: Ferenc Fodor
- Department of Plant Anatomy: Gábor M. Kovács
- Department of Immunology: Mihály Józsi
Institute of Physics and Astronomy
- Department of Biological Physics: Imre Derényi
- Department of Physics of Complex Systems: Gábor Vattay
- Department of Astronomy: Zsolt Sándor
Institute of Geography and Earth Sciences
- Department of Petrology and Geochemistry: Szabolcs Harangi
- Department of Paleontology: Attila Ősi
- Department of Social and Economic Geography: Ferenc Gyuris
- Department of Mineralogy: Ferenc Molnár
- Department of Geophysics and Space Science: Gábor Tímár
- Department of Environmental and Landscape Geography: Béla Munkácsy
- Department of Regional Science: Pál Szabó
Institute of Mathematics
- Department of Applied Analysis and Computational Mathematics: Petra Csomós
- Department of Analysis: Tamás Keleti
- Department of Algebra and Number Theory: Gergely Zábrádi
- Center for the Teaching and Methodology of Mathematics: Csaba Csapodi
- Department of Operations Research: Tibor Jordán
- Department of Computer Science: Péter Sziklai
- Department of Probability Theory and Statistics: Vilmos Prokaj
We wish the new leaders much success in their roles!
(Translated by AI)