János Kertész

Professor at Central European University

János Kertész obtained his PhD in Physics in 1980 from Eötvös University, Budapest. He worked at the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, at Cologne University and at Technical University Munich. He has been professor since 1992 at the Budapest University of Technology and Economics, and since 2012 at the Department of Network and Data Science of the Central European University. He was visiting scientist in Germany, US, France, Italy and Finland. He is interested in statistical physics and its applications, including percolation theory, phase transitions, fractal growth, granular materials and simulation methods. During the last 20 years his research has focused on multidisciplinary topics, mainly on complex networks as well as on financial analysis and modeling. He has authored and co-authored more than 200 scientific papers. He has been on the editorial boards of Journal of Physics A, Physica A, Fluctuation and Noise Letters, Fractals, New Journal of Physics, Physical Review E and Journal of Computational Social Science. His work has been recognized by the Hungarian Academy Award, the Szent-Györgyi Award of the Ministry of Education, the Széchenyi Prize of the Hungarian State, the title of Finland Distinguished Professor of the Finnish Academy and the Benjamin Lee Professorship of the Asian-Pacific Center for Theoretical Physics.