·                     Education:

 

 

1994           Candidate of Science (CSc), Ethnography, Hungarian Academy of Science, Budapest, Hungary.

                 

1989           PhD, Information Science, Eötvös Loránd University, Faculty of Arts, Department of Library and Information Science, Budapest, Hungary.

 

1981-1985   MA, Library and Information Science, Eötvös Loránd University, Faculty of Arts, Department of Library and Information Science, Budapest, Hungary.

 

1970-1975   MSc, University of Agriculture, Gödöllő, Hungary.

 

 

·                     Working experience:

 

 

2011-          Professor, Swedish School of Library and Information Science, University of Borĺs, Borĺs, Sweden

 

2008-          Honorary Professor, Department of Library Science, Szeged University, Hungary

 

2003-          Associate Professor (Senior Lecturer), Swedish School of Library and Information Science (University of Gothenburg), University College Borĺs, Borĺs, Sweden and Consultant, Center for Information Retrieval, University of Veszprém, Hungary

 

2001-2003   Head of Unit, EU Science and Technology Cooperation, Ministry of Education, Budapest, Hungary and National Contact Point for social sciences and the humanities in the 6th Framework Programme

 

1997-2001   Science and Technology Attaché, Embassy of the Hungarian Republic, Helsinki, Finland

 

1996-1997   Associate Professor and Temporary Chair, School of Journalism, Library and Information Science, Oslo University College, Oslo, Norway

 

1995-1996   Professional consultant in Library and Information Science

 

1993,1995   Kaser Endowed Lecturer and Visiting Scholar, School of Library and Information Science, Indiana University, Bloomington, USA

 

1985-1996   Assistant Professor of Information Science, specialised in information retrieval, Eötvös Loránd University, Faculty of Arts, Department of  Library and Information Science, Budapest, Hungary

 

·                     Conferences, organizing and program committees:

 

 

2011-2012   IC-ININFO 2011, IC-ININFO 2012, International Scientific/Advisory Board Member

 

2010           1st International AMICUS Workshop, Co-organizer

 

2010           Joint JCDL/ICADL International Digital Libraries Conference, Panel on „Computer Science, Information Studies, Digital Libraries, and Web Science: Different facets or different faces?”, Panelist

 

2007           ICTIR´07, Program Committee Co-Chair

 

2005           MFIR, SIGIR 2005, Program Committee Member

 

2004           MFIR, SIGIR 2004, Program Committee Member

 

2003           „Higher Order Morphologies’ Observer: Information Society, Cultural Heritage and Text Analysis”, 24-26 November, Budapest, Hungary.  Initiator, Secretary of the Organizing Committee

 

2001               „Cultural Innovation and Information Retrieval: The Digitization and Automated Content Exploration of Finno-Ugric Cultural Heritage”, 14 September 2001, National Széchényi Library, Budapest, Hungary.

Initiator, Secretary of the Organizing Committee

 

 

·                     Board memberships:

 

 

2003-          Academic Board, Graduate School of Language Technology, Göteborg University.

 

1995-          Journal of Information Science, member of the Editorial Board

 

1994-2002   Journal of Documentation, member of the Editorial Board

 

 

 

Last updated: May 22, 2012