- born: Ózd, 23 February 1940
- university studies: mathematics and descriptive geometry teacher, Lajos Kossuth University, 1964
- assistant lecturer: 1964-1969
- assistant professor: 1969-1974
- associate professor: 1974-1985
- professor: 1985-2010
- professor emeritus: since 2010
- university doctor degree: 1966
title of the thesis: Contributions to the theory of diophantine equations (in Hungarian) - candidate degree: 1973
title of the thesis: Diophantine investigations in the theory of irreducible polynomials (in Hungarian). Supervisor: Professor P. Turán - academic doctor degree: 1984
title of the thesis: Effective finiteness theorems for diophantine problems and their applications (in Hungarian) - corresponding member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences: 1993-1998
- ordinary member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences: since 1998
- visiting professorships:
1979: Pierre and Marie Curie University (Paris, France)
1983-1984: Leiden University (Leiden, the Netherlands)
1985-1986: Mathematical Research Institute (Budapest, Hungary)
1987: Louis Pasteur University (Strasbourg, France)
1990: Saga University (Saga, Japan)
1993: Berkeley, Mathematical Sciences Research Institute (USA)
1991 and 1993: Loránd Eötvös University (Budapest, Hungary)
1994: Nihon University (Tokyo, Japan)
2004: Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (Hong Kong)
2005: Tata Institute (Bombay, India)
2006: Schrödinger Institute (Vienna, Austria) - prizes/awards:
1970: Géza Grünwald Memory Prize
1986: Tibor Szele Memory Prize
1992: Academic Prize
1998: honorary citizen of Ózd
2000: Hatvani Prize
2003: Széchenyi Prize
2010: Honorary Medal of University of Debrecen
2010: Professor Emeritus
2016: Member of the European Academy
2016: Member of the Polish Academy of Arts and Sciences
2016: Honorary Doctor's Degree, Selye University, Slovakia
2017: Honorary citizen of Debrecen
2018: Order of Merit of the Republic of Hungary - Commander's Cross - supervision of PhD students: Béla Kovács (1972), Attila Pethő (1975), Péter Kiss (1976), Sándor Turjányi (1976), Zoltán Papp (1977), János Rimán (1978), Béla Brindza (1983), István Gaál (1987), Ákos Pintér (1992), Lajos Hajdu (1998), Attila Bérczes (2001), Csaba Rakaczki (2005), István Pink (2006)
- Nationalwide and University roles:
head of Department of Algebra and Number Theory, Institute of Mathematics, University of Debrecen: 1988-2005
dean of the Faculty of Sciences, Lajos Kossuth University: 1993-1998
vice rector of the University of Debrecen: 2000-2001
rector of the University of Debrecen: 2001-2002
prorector of the University of Debrecen: 2002-2003
chair of Mathematical Section of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences: 1999-2005
vice president of the János Bolyai Mathematical Society, until 2019
honorary president of the János Bolyai Mathematical Society, since 2019
vice president of the Hungarian Accreditation Committee, 2012-2018
leader of the Number Theory Research Group of Debrecen: since 1968
Panel member of the Europian Research Council: 2007-2011 - editor of Acta Arithmetica, Acta Mathematica Hungarica, Acta Universitatis Sapientiae Mathematica, Central European Journal of Mathematics, Konuralp Journal of Mathematics, Mathematical Inequalities and Applications, Mathematica Japonica, Mathematica Slovaca, Publicationes Mathematicae Debrecen, Scientiae Mathematicae
- reviewer for Zentralblatt für Mathematik and Mathematical Reviews
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