Ferenc Nagy#
| Membership Number: | 4058 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | BIOCHEMISTRY & MOLECULAR BIOLOGY |
| Elected: | 2015 |
| Main Country of Residence: | HUNGARY |
Present and Previous Positions
- 2010 - 2013 Guest Professor, University of Freiburg, Germany
- 2008 - present Professor of Plant Cell and System Biology, University of Edinburgh, UK
- 2006 - 2012 Deputy Director, Inst. of Plant Biology, BRC, Szeged, Hungary
- 2004 - present Honorary Professor, University of Freiburg, Germany
- 2000 - 2006 General Director, Agricultural Biotechnology Center, Gödöllő, Hungary
- 1998 - 2000 Deputy Director, Inst. of Plant Biology, BRC, Szeged, Hungary
- 1988 - 1996 Group Leader, Friedrich-Miescher Institute, Basel, Switzerland
- 1987 - present Group Leader, Inst. of Plant Biology, BRC, Szeged, Hungary
- 1986 - 1987 Assistant Professor, Laboratory of Plant Molecular Biology, The Rockefeller University, New York, USA
- 1983 - 1986 Postdoctoral Fellow, Nam-Hai Chua, Laboratory of Plant Molecular Biology, The Rockefeller University, New York, USA
Fields of Scholarship
- Plant molecular biology
- Photobiology
- Chronobiology
- Optogenetics
Honours and Awards
- 2014 - present EMBL Council Member (representing Hungary/prospect member status)
- 2013 Commander’s Cross of the Order of Merit of the Republic of Hungary.
- 2011 Honorary Citizen of Heves city, Hungary
- 2010 - present Corresponding member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences
- 2008 - 2014 Member of EMBO Council
- 2008 Szechenyi Award of the Republic of Hungary
- 2008 - present Member of the German Academy of Sciences (Leopoldina/Botany)
- 2005 Bela Tanko Award, Hungarian Society of Biochemists
- 2004 Academy Award, Hungarian Academy of Sciences
- 2001 Wolfgang Paul Research Award
- 1998 - present Elected member of EMBO
- 1997 Humboldt Research Award
- 1996 - 2010 Howard Hughes International Fellow
