Ferenc Nagy

Biography

Ferenc Nagy is a professor of biology at the Institute of Plant Biology, Biological Research Center (BRC) of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences. He studied biochemistry and genetics at the József Attila University in Szeged, Hungary, and after receiving his PhD in 1981, worked as a research scientist at the BRC. In addition, he has been a member of the Laboratory of Plant Molecular Biology at the Rockefeller University, New York, USA, since 1987. Afterwards, Nagy continued his work at the BRC, as well as at the Friedrich-Miescher Institute at Basel, Switzerland, as a group leader. In 1997 he received his doctorate from the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest. In 1998 he became deputy director of the BCR and in 2000 general director of the Agricultural Biotechnology Center, GödöllÅ‘, Hungary. One year later, Nagy completed his habilitation at the Eötvös Loránd University of Sciences, Budapest, Hungary and became a member of the Max Planck International Research School, Cologne, Germany. In 2004, Nagy became an honorary professor of the Albert-Ludwigs University, Freiburg, and in 2006 once again he renewed to the appointment as deputy director of the BCR. He is currently a guest professor at the University of Edinburgh. In 2008, he started his career as a senior research fellow at the School of Life Sciences - LIFEET of the newly founded institute, FRIAS, Freiburg Institute for Advanced Studies. The International Society for Plant Molecular Biology (ISPBM) is a member of the International Society for Plant Molecular Biology. He is an elected member of EMBO, the German Academy of Sciences and an elected Council Member of EMBO, as well as a member of the Plant Biology Committee of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences. Ferenc Nagy has been distinguished by several awards, both nationally and internationally. In 1997 he was awarded the Humboldt Research Award. He won the Wolfgang Paul Research Award in 2001 and the Academy Award of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences in 2004, followed in 2005 by the Belatanko Award of the Hungarian Society of Biochemists. In 2008 he received the Szechenyi Award of the Republic of Hungary.

Research Interest

His current research focuses on Qualitative and quantitative characterization of ultraviolet-light-induced signaling cascades in Arabidopsis thaliana suspension culture cells