Current: Head of the Phonetics Department, Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest and Head of the Phonetics Laboratory, Linguistics Institute, Hungarian Academy of Science, Budapest.
1991: visiting professor - IPO (Eindhoven, The Netherlands)
1987: postdoctoral fellowship at the Speech Research Laboratory of MIT (Cambridge, USA)

2008: Scientific Award of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences
2008: Bárczi Gusztáv Award (speech diagnostic procedure) 2008: Scientific Award of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences 2005-2008: elected member of the philosophy department of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences
2004-2007: member of the Chief Scientific Board of the Presidency of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences
2004: member of the Presidency of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences
2004: Brassai Sámuel Award for applied phonetic research
2000: Széchenyi Professorship Award (for outstanding research and teaching)
1996: habilitation, Jannus Pannonius Universitat (Pécs)
1994: Békésy-Award for practical applications in speech technology
1993: DSc, highest doctoral (academic) degree of Hungary
1993: Békésy György Award of the ENT Board of Hungary for scientific and practical work
1990: Kempelen Farkas Award given for applied phonetic research in speech pathology
1986: Award of Young Scientists by the Hungarian Academy of Science
1986: CSc in phonetics
1977: university doctoral degree with the qualification of summa cum laude
1975: graduated from Eötvös Loránd University of Budapest with an M.A. degree in Hungarian and Russian linguistics and literature.
I have two patents in Hungary. I have developed a test package (GMP) for the evaluation of children's speech perception and comprehension (used all over Hungary).

experimental and applied phonetics, psycholinguistics, speech disorders, first lanuage acquisition

Undergraduate and graduate (PhD) courses. Currently 15 PhD-students in Hungary and 4 from abroad. 14 of my former students have obtained their PhD-degree (4 from abroad). Teaching courses (both undergraduate and PhD-levels): general, experimental and Hungarian phonetics, applied phonetics, psycholinguistics, speech production processes, speech perception, clinical phonetics, disfluency phenomena, speaker recognition.
2002: A special program called "Experimental and Applied Phonetics" for undergraduate students developed and introduced (ELTE University).
1987 phonetic course at Boston University (USA)
1991-1993: courses at the Department of General Linguistics, University of Vienna (Austria).
1977-1987: courses at the College for Teacher Training, Budapest

University of Graz, Vienna (Austria), University of Boston, Gallaudet University, MIT (USA), University of Helsinki, Amsterdam, Stockholm, University College London, Toronto, KTH (Stockholm), University of Bratislava, Goethe University (Frankfurt), Max Planck Institute (Nijmegen), Teacher Training College of Greifswald (Germany), University of Zagreb (Croatia).

2009: new Hungarian OTKA project
2002-2008: four Hungarian OTKA projects
2004-2006: NKFP Hungarian Ministry Project (speech synthesis)
2001-2002: Széchenyi Information Society Project (speech perception)
1994-1997 and 1998-2001: Hungarian OTKA-projects (function and phonetic patterns of the word; speaker identification)
1999-2001 NKFP - national scientific project (speech synthesis testing)
1994-1995: COST219 international project (speech synthesis and hearing evaluation)
1993-1996: Copernicus Project (Speak), Speech Generation in Multimodal Information Systems.

12 scientific books (one in English), 3 university textbooks, 3 books for the general public on speech. More than 270 published papers (in Hungarian, English, German and Russian). 18 edited books, permanent editor of the journal, entitled Speech Research(in Hungarian and English).
2004-2007: Member of Presidency of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences 
2000-2006: President of the editorial board of the Hungarian Journal of Applied Linguistics.  Editorial member of several other Hungarian journals. Editorial board member of the Journal of Research in Reading (1995-1999), Govor (1999-), Journal of Multilingual Speech Communication Disorders (2001-2007), The Phonetician (2003-), Journal of IPA (2008-).
2000-2006: President of the Committee of the Hungarian Applied Linguistics; 1995-: Vice-President of the Hungarian Society of Phonetics, Phoniatrics and Speech Therapy.
Chief organizer of international congresses: Speech Research (1989), Child Language Congress (1991), International Kempelen Workshop (2004).

2003-: Secretary General of the International Society of Phonetic Sciences
1997-2000: board member of ESCA European Speech Communication Association (later ISCA)
1992-1997: representative of Hungary in the European Committee of the International Reading Association
Plenary talks at international conferences: reading conference (Toronto, 1995), dyslexia conference (Stockholm (1998), Eurospeech '99 (Budapest, 1999), International Speech Research Conference (Zagreb, 2004), ICPLA (Dubrovnik, 2006), International Speech Conference (Zagreb, 2007), NILD (Budapest 2009).