Éva Kondorosi#
| Membership Number: | 2875 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Main Country of Residence: | HUNGARY |
| Section: | BIOCHEMISTRY & MOLECULAR BIOLOGY |
| Elected: | 2010 |
Present and Previous Positions
- 2012 Head of the Symbiosis and Functional Genomics Unit, Biological Research Centre, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Szeged, Hungary
- 2000 - 2013 Group leader, Institut des Sciences du Végétal, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique
- 1997 - 2012 Founder and Director of the Bay Zoltán Foundation for Applied Research
- 1996 - 2019 Scientific advisor at the Institute of Biochemistry, Biological Research Center, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Szeged, Hungary (1996 - 2017)
- 1982 - 1996 Senior Scientist at the Institute of Biochemistry, Biological Research Center, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Szeged, Hungary
- 1976 - 1982 Research Associate at the Institute of Biochemistry, Biological Research Center, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Szeged, Hungary
- 1989 - 2000 Group leader, Institut des Sciences Végétales, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique
- 1987 - 1989 Max Planck Institut für Züchtungsforschung Köln, Germany, project leader
Fields of Scholarship
- Microbial genetics
- Molecular biology
- Biochemistry
- Plant-microbe interactions
- Symbiotic nitrogen fixation
- Chemical Ecology
- Cell differentiation
- Organ development
- Function and regulation of bacterial and plant genes controlling nodule development
- Plant cell cycle regulation
- Control of endoreduplication cycles, targeted proteolysis by the anaphase promoting complex APC-CCS52 ubiquitin ligase enzyme complexes
- Plant controlled differentiation of bacteria
- Function of symbiotic antimicrobial plant peptides
- Development of novel, plant derived antimicrobial agents
Honours and Awards
- 2019 The main prize of Szeged city
- 2019 „Man of the year”, Hungary
- 2018 Balzan Prize (Chemical Ecology)
- 2016 Full member of Hungarian Academy of Sciences
- 2017 Grand Prize of the Szeged Foundation
- 2012 Széchenyi Prize of the Hungarian state for outstanding scientific contribution
- 2012 Award of the the International Society of Molecular Plant-Microbe Interactions
- 2011 Prix de la Recherche, Paris
- 2007 Hotchkiss award
- 1985 Award of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences
- 2006 Member of the European Molecular Biology Organization (EMBO)
- 2011 - 2012 Member of the EMBO Fellowship Committee
- 2013 - 2018 Member of the Scientific Council of the European Research Council
- 2017 - 2019 Vice President of the European Research Council
- 2018 Member of the Strategic Advisory Committee at University of Oslo
- 2019 Member of the University of Ćologne’s Academic Advisory Board
- 2019 Member of the International Committee of „Polish Excellence Initiative” of the Polish Ministry of Science and Higher Education
- 2018 Member of the jury of the BIAL Award in Biomedicine
- 2008 - 2015 Member of the Board of Directors of the IS-Molecular Plant-Microbe Interactions
- 2012 - 2016 Member of the United Nations Secretary General’s Scientific Advisory Board
- 2011 - 2017 ERC Advanced Grant
- 1997 - 2000 Member of the International jury for the UNESCO/Helena Rubinstein/L’Oréal Prize “Women in Sciences”
- Academic memberships
- 2010 Foreign associate of the National Academy of Sciences, USA
- 2010 Corresponding member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences
- 2010 Member of the Academia Europaea
- 2013 Foreign Full Member of the French Agricultural Academy
- 2015 Member of Leopoldina, the German National Academy of Sciences
- 2016 Full Member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences
- 2017 Member of the European Academy of Microbiology
