Sandor Pongor#
| Membership Number: | 2485 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | BIOCHEMISTRY & MOLECULAR BIOLOGY |
| Elected: | 2007 |
| Main Country of Residence: | ITALY |
| Homepage(s): | http://www.icgeb.org/sandor-pongor.html |
Present and Previous Positions
- 2010 Professor, Pázmány Péter Catholic University, Budapest, Hungary
- 2001–2010 Head, Bioinformatics Group, Biological Research Center, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Szeged, Hungary
- 1990-2015 Senior Scientist and Group Leader of the Protein Structure and Bioinformatics Laboratory of the ICGEB, Trieste
- 1989-1994 Director at Institute for Biochemistry and Protein Research, Agricultural Biotechnology Center, Gödöllö, Hungary
- 1986-1990 Research Director, Agricultural Biotechnology Center, Gödöllö, Hungary
- 1984-1985 Research Associate, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, USA
- 1982-1983 Research Associate, Rockefeller University, New York, NY, USA
- 1978 PhD in Biochemistry at Technical University, Budapest, Hungary
Fields of Scholarship
- Bioinformatics
- Communication networks in biology
- Protein research
- Representations of biological data
Honours and Awards
- Member of Academia Europaea (2007)
- Member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences
- Member of the International Society of Computational Biology
- Member of the Italian and the Hungarian Bioinformatics Societies
- Member of the Editorial Board of Databases (Oxford University Press)
- Chairman at European Molecular Biology Network (EMBnet)(1996-1997)
