Tibor Vellai#
| Membership Number: | 7013 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | CELL & DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY |
| Elected: | 2024 |
| Main Country of Residence: | HUNGARY |
| Homepage(s): | https://genet.elte.hu/celegansen |
| ORCID: | 0000-0002-3520-2572 |
Present and Previous Positions
- 2013 - present Professor, Department of Genetics, Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest, Hungary
- 2008 - present Head of Department , Department of Genetics, Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest, Hungary
- 2004 - 2013 Associate Professor, Department of Genetics, Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest, Hungary
- 2002 - 2004 Assistant Professor, Department of Genetics, Eö6vös Lránd University, Budapest, Hungary
- 1999 - 2004 Postdoctoral Fellow, Institute of Biology, University of Fribourg, Fribourg, Switzerland
- 1998 - 2002 Assistant Lecturer, Department of Genetics, Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest, Hungary
- 1998 - 1999 Research Fellow, Collegium Budapest-Institute for Advanced Studies, Hungary
- 1996 Visiting Research Fellow, Department of Pure and Applied Biology, University of Leeds, Leeds, UK
- 1993 - 1999 PhD Student, Department of Genetics, Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest, Hungary
Fields of Scholarship
- Neurodegeneration
- Aging
- Sex-determination and dosage compensation
- Hox genes
- Autophagy
- Signalling crosstalk
- Models: C. elegans, Drosophila, zebrafish, cell cultures
Honours and Awards
- 2012 Bolyai Research Grant Plaquette (Hungarian Academy of Sciences)
- 2014 Eminent Teacher of the University Eötvös Loránd University)
- 2015, 2020 Innovative Researcher Award (Eötvös Loránd University)
- 2016 Excellence Award of the Rector (Eötvös Loránd University)
- 2023 Academy Award (Hungarian Academy of Sciences)
