Röst CV

Positions

2022 - scientific director, National Laboratory for Health Security
2022 - senior scientist, HCEMM - Hungarian Center for Excellence in Molecular Medicine
2021 - Department Chair, Applied and Numerical Mathematics, University of Szeged, Hungary
2020 - Vice-Head of Bolyai Institute, University of Szeged, Hungary
2020 - 2022 Head of COVID-19 Epidemiological Analysis and Modelling Response Team (coordinated by the Ministry of Innovation and Technology)
2013 - associate professor, University of Szeged, Hungary
2017 - 2019 research fellow, University of Oxford, UK
2011 - 2012 assistant professor, University of Szeged, Hungary
2011 - 2016 principal investigator, EPIDELAY project, University of Szeged
2011 Fulbright visiting scholar, Arizona State University, USA
2008 - 2010 research fellow, Hungarian Academy of Sciences
2006 - 2007 postdoctoral research fellow, York University, Toronto, Canada

Research and studies abroad

2000 ERASMUS, one semester at Universita degli Studi della Basilicata, Potenza (Italy)
2002 Special Research Trimester on Dynamical Systems, 1 month at Scuola Normale Superiore, Pisa (Italy)
2002 - 2003 one-year DAAD-Fellowship, Justus-Liebig-Universität, Giessen (Germany), host: Hans-Otto Walther
2006 - 2007 20 months MITACS Postdoctoral Fellow, York University, Toronto (Canada), host: Jianhong Wu
2011 5 months Fulbright Visiting Scholar, Arizona State University, Tempe (US), host: Horst Thieme
4 months (total) visiting researcher, Universidade de Vigo (Spain), host: Eduardo Liz
2017 - 2019 MSCA fellow, University of Oxford (UK), host: Ruth Baker
2018 2 months visiting researcher, University of St. Andrews (Scotland), host: Mark Chaplain

Degrees and education

MSc Thesis University of Szeged 2001 The unstable set of a periodic functional differential equation, supervisor: Tibor Krisztin
PhD Dissertation, University of Szeged, 2006, Bifurcation Theory for Periodic Delay Differential Equations, advisor: Tibor Krisztin
Habilitation: 2013 May, University of Szeged

Prizes, awards, major grants, and fellowships

1998,1999,2000 Scholarship of the Republic of Hungary (awarded to top 0.8% students)
2001 Distinguished Student of the University of Szeged
2004 First prize, publication competition of the Szeged Committee of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences
2005 First prize, publication competition of the Hungarian Association of Postgraduate Students
2005 "Golden Chalk" Prize, teaching award, given by the students association
2006 Promotio sub auspiciis praesidentis Rei Publicae, “PhD with Golden Ring”, given by the President of Hungary
2007 Grünwald Prize, awarded by the János Bolyai Mathematical Society
2008 Young Researcher Prize, Hungarian Academy of Sciences
2009 Bolyai Research Scholarship, Hungarian Academy of Sciences
2010 Fulbright Scholarship
2011 ERC Starting Investigator Grant
2012 Alexits Award, Hungarian Academy of Sciences
2013 Bolyai Memorial of Hungarian Academy of Sciences
2017 Marie Sklodowska-Curie Individual Fellowship
2017 Faculty Research Award, University of Szeged
2018 Gács András Award
2019 Élvonal (Frontline) Research Grant
2020 QP - Hungarian Academy of Sciences Award of Excellence
2020 Pro Universitate Award, Universiy of Szeged
2021 Pro Urbe ("For the City") Award of Szeged City, delivered by the mayor
2021 Apáczai Csere János Award for mentorship in science

Editorial Boards

Electronic Journal on the Qualitative Theory of Differential Equations (2011 - )
Biomath Communications (2013 - )
Érintő e-matlap (popular math magazine of the Hungarian Math. Society) (2016 - )
Alkalmazott Matematikai Lapok (2016 - )
Infectious Disease Modeling (2016 - )
BIOMAT Consortium - International Institute for Interdisciplinary Sciences (2017 - )
Differential Equations and Dynamical Systems (2017 - 2020)
Communication on Pure and Applied Analysis (2017 - )
PLOS ONE (2018 - )
Mathematics in Applied Sciences and Engineering (MASE) (2019 - )
Frontiers in Applied Mathematics (2020 - )

Organization of meetings

Modelling in Life Sciences workshop series (2010, 2011, 2013, 2014, 2015)
Canada-China Applied Mathematics Minisymposium at LIAM, Toronto, 2007
9QTDE, 10QTDE, 11QTDE, 12QTDE
HURO Workshop on Differential Equations
Szeged Summer School on Mathematical Epidemiology, 2014
Summer School on Network Science, Balatonfüred, 2014
Szeged Dynamics Days 2013, 2014, 2018, 2019
American Institute of Mathematics - workshop on mathematical immuno-epidemiology
session organizer: ISIRR-8 (2005), SIAM Snowbird (2011,2013), AIMS (2014 Madrid, 2018 Taiwan), BJAMK 2012, BJAMK 2016, ECMTB 2016 Nottingham, ECMI 2018 Budapest, IFAC Delay 2018 Budapest, ICIAM 2019 Valencia, DEA 2019 Krakow
Workshop on Mathematical Immuno-epidemiology, 2015, American Institute of Mathematics, San José CA
BJAMK 2016 (Hungarian Applied Mathematics Conference)
Szeged School on Computational Tools for Delay Differential Equations 2016
BIOMAT 2019 Szeged
Industrial mathematics workshops in Szeged: Mathematics of self-driving cars (2018), Economic impact of the pandemic (2021)
Epidemiology and Modelling workshops (Kecskemét 2021, Kunpuszta 2022)

Professional organizations

Chairman of the Applied Mathematics Division, Hungarian (Bolyai) Mathematical Society (since 2021)
Young Academy of Europe (elected fellow since 2017)
SIAM, Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (member since 2009)
SMB, Society for Mathematical Biology (member since 2009)
Bolyai János Matematikai Társulat (Hungarian Mathematical Society), vice chair of Applied Mathematics Division (2017 - 2021)
HU-MATHS-IN Scientific Committee (2017 - )
ECMI Education Committee (2019 - )
Eastern European Representative, Board member of the BIOMAT Consortium (2017 - )
member of Pan-InfORM (Canada)

Supervising

16 Postdocs/research fellows: Maria Vittoria Barbarossa, Yukihiko Nakata, Maoxing Liu, Attila Dénes, Sérine Damak, Philipp Getto, Gábor Kiss, Alfonso Ruiz-Herrera, Ferenc Bartha, Francesca Scarabel, Tamás Varga, AmirHosein Sadeghimanesh, Nóra Juhász, Renji Han, Mahmoud Ibrahim, Nirmali Das
10 PhD students: Diána Knipl, Kyeongah Nah, Zsolt Vizi, Péter Boldog, Khalil Muqbel, Tamás Tekeli, Bornali Das, Sadegh Marzban, Golsa Sayyar, Rita Csuma-Kovács
9 MSc students: Tamás Bencsik, Tamás Kovács, Diána Knipl, Imre Szabó, Zsolt VIzi, Péter Boldog, Tamás Tekeli, Lőrinc Pósfai, Dominik Luczó
9 Research students: Diána Knipl, Zsolt Vizi, Péter Boldog, Lőrinc Pósfai, Tamás Tekeli, Rita Csuma-Kovács, Csenge Urszuly, Anna Geretovszky, Villő Glavosits

Teaching

Exercise classes: Discrete Mathematics I.-II., Probability Theory, Calculus I.-II., Biomathematics, Elementary Mathematics, Analysis I.-II., Ordinary Differential Equations, Advanced Problem Solving (2001-2010)
Lectures: Biomathematics I-II., Ordinary Differential Equations, Population Dynamics, Mathematical Epidemiology, Dynamical Models in Biology, Mathematical Models in Biology, Functional Differential Equations, Applied Calculus, Dynamical Systems, Control Theory, Mathematics in Daily Life

Reviewer

member of the Mathematics Jury of the Hungarian Scientific Research Fund (2014-2017)
member of the Postdoc Jury of the Hungarian Scientific Research Fund (2016, 2019)
reviewer for international funding bodies: NSERC Canada, CONDECYT Chile, Israel Research Foundation, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Fulbright, European Commission
member of the international expert panel to evaluate the African Institute of Mathematical Sciences (AIMS) pan-African network of centres of excellence
referee for more than 50 international journals
reviewer for 4 PhD theses (University of Pannonia, Eötvös University Budapest, University of Melbourne)
expert reviewer for Marie Sklodowska Curie fellowships (2019,2020,2021)

Selected lectures

keynote speaker at Dynamics, Equations and Applications (DEA 2019) Krakow
main speaker at Nonlinear Analysis and Boundary Value Problems, 2018, Santiago de Compostela
plenary speaker BIOMAT 2017, Moscow
plenary speaker ICDEA 2017, Timisoara
Daegu International Scientist Programme 2016, South Korea
keynote speaker at Pannon Math Modelling 2015, Novi Sad
plenary speaker at Biomath 2014, Sofia
Distinguished Lecture Series at CDM 2013, Toronto
invited talks at cc. 50 international conferences
seminar talks at cc. 40 insitutions