- 1980: MSc in Physics, University of Bucharest, Romania
- 1988: PhD in Mathematics, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest
- 1999: DSc (Mathematics), Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest
probability theory, stochastic processes, random walks, limit theorems, statistical physics (classical and quantum), randomness in space and time
- 1982-1989: Research Fellow, Mathematical Institute of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences
- 1989-1991: Rasearch Associate and Temporary Lecturer, Department of Mathematics, Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh (on leave from the Mathematical Institute of the H.A.S.)
- 1989-1998: Senior Researcher, Mathematical Institute of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences.
- 1998-present: Professor of Mathematics, Institute of Mathematics, Budapest University of Technology
- 1998-present: Head of Department of Stochastics, Institute of Mathematics, Budapest University of Technology
- 2005-2009: Director, Institute of Mathematics, Budapest University of Technology
- Chief Editor (2009 - 2011) of Electronic Journal of Probability
- Associate Editor (2001 - 2005) for The Annals of Probability
- Associate Editor (2003 - present) for Annales de l'Institut Henri Poincaré -- Probabilités et Statistiques
- Associate Editor (1997 - present) for Periodica Mathematica Hungarica
- 1987: Youth Prize awarded by the Hungarian Academy of Sciences
- 1994: Mathematical Prize awarded by the Hungarian Academy of Sciences (since 1997 called `Paul Erdős Prize')
- 1999-2002: Széchenyi Professorship awarded by the Hungarian Government
- 2003: Academic Prize awarded by the Hungarian Academy of Sciences
- János Bolyai Mathematical Society (Bolyai János Matematikai Társulat, BJMT)
- American Mathematical Society (AMS)
- Bernoulli Society
- Institute of Mathematical Statistics (IMS)
- 1984: Random Fields and Statistical Mechanics, Kőszeg Hungary (member of the organizing committee)
- 1991: Statistical Mechanics and Phase Transitions, Edinburgh
- 1995: Disordered Systems and Statistical Physics, Budapest (chairman of the organizing committee)
- 1998: Random Walks, Budapest (co-chairman of the organizing committee)
- 1999: Probability and Physics of Disordered Systems -- First Dutch-Hungarian Stochastics Workshop, Budapest (scientific coordinator)
- 2001: Dynamical Systems and Related Fields, Budapest (co-organizer)
- 2003: Randomness in Space and Time -- Second Dutch-Hungarian Stochastics Workshop, Budapest (co-organizer)
- 2005: Particle Systems with Several Conservation Laws: Fluctuartions and Hydrodynamics, Oberwolfach Miniworkshop (co-organizer)
- 2005: Large Scale Behaviour of Interacting Particle Systems: Fluctuartions and Hydrodynamics Budapest (co-organizer)
- 2006: Randomness and Hyperbolicity in Dynamical Systems -- in Honour of Domokos Szász's 65th Birthday, Budapest (co-organizer)
- 2008: Hydrodynamics and Fluctuations in Interacting Particle Systems -- in Honour of József Fritz's 65th Birthday, Budapest (co-organizer)
- 2002-2007: European Science Foundation Program `Random Dynamics of Spatially Extended Systems (RDSES)' (member of the international steering committee)
- 2005: Ninth Brazilian School of Probability, Sao Sebastiao (member of the scientific programme committee)
- 2006: 31st Conference on Stochastic Processes and their Applications, Paris (member of the scientific programme committee)
- 2007: 32nd Conference on Stochastic Processes and their Applications, Urbana-Champaign (member of the scientific programme committee)
- 2008: Interacting Particle Syatema, Statistical Mechanics and Probability Theory, Institut Henri Poincaré, Centre Émile Borel, Paris, Sept-Dec 2008 (member of the scientific advisory committee)
- 2009: Thirteenth Brazilian School of Probability, (member of the scientific programme committee)
- 2011: Dynamics and Transport in Disordered Systems, one semester program at The Fields Institute, Toronto (member of the scientific programme committee)
- 2010-2013: Bernoulli Society Committee for Conferences on Stochastic Processes and Their Applications, member
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- 1985 April-May: visiting researcher, Landau Institute and Moscow State University
- 1986 September-October: visiting researcher, Universitat Bielefeld
- 1989 January-1991 August: research associate and temporary lecturer, Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh
- 1995 April-May: visiting researcher, CWI Amsterdam
- 1997 May: professeur invité, École Normale Supérieure, Paris
- 1999 May: professeur invité, Université de Provenve -- Aix Marseille
- 2001 September: professeur invité, Institut Henri Poincaré, Paris
- 2002 July-August: visiting researcher, IMPA Rio de Janeiro
- 2003 January-February: professeur invité, Institut Henri Poincaré, Paris
- 2007 March, May: professeur invité, École Normale Supérieure, Paris
- 2009 May-June: visiting researcher, Insitut Mittag-Leffler, Stockholm
Invited conference talks, 1996-2010:
- 1996 August, Chicago, Joint Annual Meeting of the IMS and AAS
- 1996 August, Edinburgh, Conference on Random Polymers and Related Topics, ICMS (series of two lectures)
- 1996 October, Prague, Statistical Physics School (series of four lectures)
- 1997 July, Budapest, Paul Erdős Memorial Conference
- 1997 October, Göteborg, Conference on Random Spacial Structures
- 1997 November, Oberwolfach Workshop on Random Polymers and Related Topics
- 1998 April, Dresdem, Workshop at Max Planck Institut (series of three lecture)
- 1999 January, Tokyo, Conference on Limit Theorems
- 1999 September, Parague, Statistical Physics School (series of four lectures)
- 2000 July, Barcelona, Third European Congress of Mathematics
- 2000 August, Rio de Janeiro, First Latin American Congress of Mathematics
- 2000 August, Mambucaba RJ, Fourth Brazilian School of Probability
- 2001 February, Vienna, Conference on Random Walks, Erwin Schrödinger Institute
- 2001 September, Paris, Conference on Hydrodynamic Limits, Institut Henri Poincaré
- 2002 May, Trieste, Summer School and Conference on Probability
- 2002 June, Eindhoven, Conference on Discrete Probability, EURANDOM
- 2002 October, Eindhoven, Schwerpunkt Workshop, EURANDOM
- 2003 February, Paris, IHP Program on Statistics and Geometry of Random Growth Processes (series of three lectures)
- 2003 March, Seattle, Seminar on Stochastic Processes
- 2003 August, Cambridge, Programme on Random Growth Processes, Isaac Newton Institute
- 2003 October, Dublin, Conference on Analysis and Quantum Physics
- 2004 January, Santiago de Chile, Conference on Percolation and Interacting Particle Systems
- 2004 April, Leiden, Workshop on Percolation and Interacting Particle Systems
- 2004 June, Firenze, Summer School on Probability (series of four lectures)
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2004 June, Budapest, Conference in Honour of 70th Birthday of Endre
Csáki and Pál Révész
- 2004 June, Edinburgh, Conference in Honour of Oliver Penrose's 75th Birthday
- 2004 August, Ubatuba SP, Eighth Brazilian School of Probability
- 2004 September, Oberwolfach MFO Workshop on Large Scale Dynamics
- 2004 November, Lunteren NL, Stochastics Days Lunteren 2004 (series of two lecture)
- 2005 July, Santa Barbara CA, 30th Conference on Stochastic Processes and their Applications
- 2006 March, Vienna AT, Workshop on Discrete Probability, Erwin Schrödinger Institute for Mathematical Physics
- 2006 June, Bangalore IN, Workshop on Interacting Particle Systems, Indian Statistical Institute
- 2006 July, Lyon FR, Eleventh Confrence on Hyperbolic PDEs, ENS Lyon
- 2006 September, Oosterend-Treschelling NL, Workshop on Spontaneous Symmetry Breaking in Particle Systems Far from Equilibrium, RDSES ESF & Forschungszentrum Jülich
- 2007 February, Marseille-Luminy FR, Conference on Random Walks on Groups, CIRM
- 2007 June, Budapest HU, Conference in Honour of Miklós Csörg?, Rényi Institute
- 2007 July, Durham GB, Recent Developments in random Walks, LMS Meeting
- 2007 July, Dresden DE, Fluctuation and Dissipation Phenomena in Driven Systems far from Equilibrium, Max Planck Institute Dresden
- 2007 August, Reykjavik IS, Conference and Summer School on Random Trees, University of Iceland
- 2007 August, Oberwolfach DE, Large Scale Dynamics of Interacting Particle Systems, Oberwolfach Workshop
- 2007 October, Fukuoka JP, Conference on Stochastic Analysis on Large Scale Interacting Systems, Kyushu University
- 2007 December, Kolkata IN, 50 Years Jubilee Meeting of the Indian Statistical Institute, ISI Kolkata
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2008 May, Cluj-Kolozsvar, Workshop on Stochastic Methods in Complex Systems
- 2008 July, Singapore SG, 7th World Congress in Probability and Statistics
- 2008 October, Paris FR, Interacting particle systems and percolation at IHP
- 2008 November, Vienna A, Workshop on Structural Probability at the ESI
- 2008 December, Bangalore IN, Workshop on Reinforced Random Walks and Random walk in Random Environments at the Tata Institute for Fundamental Science
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2009 January, Haifa IL, Technion-BME Joint Probability Workshop
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2009 May, Montreal CA, New Directions in
Random Spatial Processes, Centre
de Recherches Mathématiques.
- 2009 May, Montreal CA, Interacting Stochastic Particle Systems, Centre de Recherches Mathématiques.
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2009 August, Chorin (by Berlin) DE, Summer School on Stochastic
Models of Complez Systems, Berlin-Zürich
Graduate Schools (5x2 lectures)
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2009 November, Budapest
HU, Conference in Honour of E. Csáki and P. Révész, Rényi Institute,
Budapest
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2009 November, Coventry UK, Conference in Honour of R. Kotecky’s 60th Birthday,
Warwick University
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2009 December, Paris FR, Above the Critical Dimension, IHP Paris
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2009 December, Eindhoven NL, Dynamic Random Environments, EURANDOM Eindhoven
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2010
January, Paris FR, Inhomogeneous Random
Systems, IHP Paris
Invited seminar and colloqium talks, 1996-2010:
- 1996 April, Amsterdam, CWI Stochastics Seminar
- 1996 May, Tel Aviv, Probability Seminar at Tel Aviv University
- 1996 May, Jerusalem, Probability Seminar at the Hebrew University
- 1997 May, Paris, Probability Seminar at École Normale Supérieure
- 1997 October, Berlin, Weierstrass Institute Probability Seminar
- 1999 May, Marseille, Probability Seminar at Université de Provence, Aix Marseille
- 2000 April, Amsterdam, CWI Stochastics Seminar
- 2000 August, Sao Paulo, Probability Seminar at USP
- 2000 October, Bristol, Pure Mathematics Seminar at Univ. Bristol
- 2002 July, Rio de Janeiro, Probability Seminar at IMPA
- 2002 October, Paris, Probability Seminar at Université Pierre et Marie Curie, Paris 6
- 2002 December, Cambridge MA, Analysis Seminar at MIT
- 2003 March, Vancouver, Probability Seminar at University of British Columbia
- 2003 March, Seattle, Probability Seminar at Univ. of Washington
- 2003 May, Oxford, Probability Seminar at Oxford University
- 2003 June, Zürich, Uni Zürich - ETH Joint Stochastics Seminar
- 2003 September, Edinburgh, North British Probability Seminar
- 2003 November, Erlangen München-Erlangen Stochastics Day 2003
- 2003 December, Leipzig, Analysis Seminar at Max Planck Institute for Mathematics in the Sciences
- 2005 February, Bristol Pure Mathematics Seminar, Univ. Bristol
- 2005 October, Göteborg, Joint Probability and Kynetic Theory Seminar at Chalmers University of Technology
- 2006 November, Toronto, Toronto Probability Seminar, Univ. of Toronto & The Fields Institute
- 2007 March, Paris-Orsay, Probability Seminar, Univ. Paris-Sud, Orsay
- 2007 October, Cambridge UK, Combinatorics and Probability Seminar, Univ. of Cambridge
- 2008 March, Oxford UK, Stochastic Analysis Seminar, Oxford University
- 2008 March, Bristol UK, Probability Seminar, University of Bristol
- 2008 December, Delhi IN, Probability Seminar, Indian Statistical Institute, Delhi
- 2009 May, Stockholm SE, Mathematics Colloquium, KTH Stockholm
- 2009 May, Göteborg SE, Probability Seminar, Chalmers University of Technology, Göteborg
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2009 June, Stockholm
SE, Mathematics Colloquium, Mittag-Leffler Institute, Stockholm
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2009 September, Zürich
CH, Probability Seminar, ETH+UniZurich, Zürich