Bálint Tóth - Curriculum Vitae#
Up-to-date detailed CV and complete list of publications available at http://www.math.bme.hu/~balint
Education and degrees:
- 1980: Diploma in Physics, University of Bucharest, Romania
- 1988: PhD in Mathematics, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest
- 1999: DSc Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest
Research interests:
Probability theory; stochastic processes; statistical physics (classical and quantum); random walks, interacting particle systems; fluctuations, scaling limits; randomness in space and time
Employment history:
- 2013 - present: Alfréd Rényi Institute of Mathematics of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences (external member, part time)
- 2012 - present: University of Bristol, School of Mathematics; Professor - Chair of Probability
- 1998 - present: Budapest University of Technology and Economics, Institute of Mathematics; Professor
- 1981 - 1998: Mathematical Institute of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences; Researcher (from 1991 senior researcher)
Major administrative duties:
- 1998-2012: Head of Department of Stochastics, TU Budapest
- 2005-2009: Director of Institute of Mathematics, TU Budapest
- 2009-2012: Head of Garduate School of Mathematics and Computer Science, TU Budapest
Honours:
- 2014: Plenary speaker at the SPA Conference of the Bernoulli Society (Buenos Aires)
- 2010: Szele Tibor Memorial Medal [awarded by the János Bolyai Mathematical Society (= Hungarian Math. Soc.)]
- 2009: Knight’s Cross of the Hungarian Republic [awarded by the President of the Hungarian Republic]
- 2005: Plenary speaker at the SPA Conference of the Bernoulli Society (Santa Barbara CA)
- 2003: Academy Prize [awarded by the Hungarian Academy of Sciences]
- 1994: Paul Erdős Prize [awarded by the Hungarian Academy of Sciences]
- 1987: Young Researcher’s Prize [awarded by the Hungarian Academy of Sciences]
Editorial work for international journals:
- Chief Editor: Annals of Applied Probability 2016-2018
- Chief Editor: Electronic Journal of Probability 2009-2011
- Chief Editor: Periodica Mathematica Hungarica 1997-2000
- Associate Editor: Annals of Probability 2001-05
- Associate Editor: Annales de l’Institut Henri Poincaré 2003-2015
- Associate Editor: Electronic Journal of Probability 2012-2014
Functions in international committees:
See http://www.math.bme.hu/~balint.
Conferences organized:
See http://www.math.bme.hu/~balint.
Scientific publications and impact:
- 50+ papers in peer reviewed journals
- 750+ independent citations, h-index: 17+
Invited lectures, since 1996:
- Cca 100 invited conference lectures
- Cca 100 invited colloquium and seminar lectures
- Twice invited plenary speaker at Stochastic Processes and Applications conference of the Bernoulli Society
Long term academic visits (one month, or longer):
- Professeur Invité at ENS Paris (1997, 2007, 2010)
- Professeur Invité at IHP Paris (2001, 2003)
- Professeur Invité at Université de Provence (1999)
- Landau Institute and MGU (1985)
- Universität Bielefeld (1986)
- CWI Amsterdam (1995)
- IMPA Rio de Janeiro (2002)
- Insitut Mittag-Leffler, Stockholm (2009)
Disciples:
Seven PhD students, some of them well-established researchers by now.
Created and maintained new school of modern probability and stochastic processes at TU Budapest.