Place and date of birth: Oradea (Romania), 15th of January, 1976.

Education

• 2009 PhD, Verb formation in the Secret History of the Mongols
• 2003–2006 Final certificate of the PhD program Comparative and historical Turkology,     Graduate School in Linguistics of University of Szeged
• 1998–2002 MA in Mongolic Studies, passed with honours Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest (title of diploma work: Denominal noun formation in the Secret History of the     Mongols)
• 1998 Two months Turkish language course in Istanbul, Turkey.
• 1997 Three months Modern Mongolian and Literary Mongolian language course, at the National University  of Mongolia in Ulaanbaatar.
• 1995–1998 Completed six undergraduate semesters at the Department of Altaic Studies, University of Szeged.
• 1991–1995 A levels (computer operator), Ágoston Trefort Secondary School, Budapest.

Language skills: Hungarian, English, Mongolian, Buryat, Turkish, Russian, Romanian.

Grants and fellowships received

• 2006–2007 Pre-doctoral Fellowship of the University of Szeged
• 2005–2006 Hungarian State Eötvös Fellowship to the Seminar for Languages & Cultures of Central Asia at the Friedrich Wilhem University of Bonn;
• 2001–2002 Fellowship of the Hungarian Republic.
• 2001 Grant of the Foundation Pro Renovanda Cultura Hungariae to the Oriental Institute of the Saint-Petersburg Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences.
• 2000-2002 Each semester a scientific grant of the Eötvös Loránd University with the following topics: Processing the East-Mongolian collection of Gábor Bálint; Mongolian belief in the eyes of Western travelers; Marriage customs in the Secret History of the Mongols; The private life of a Mongolian suffix.

Award received

• 2001 2nd place at the National Scientific Students’ Conference.

Teaching experience

• 2011 Teaching Comparative Altaic studies for PhD students at the Department of         Inner Asian Studies, Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest
• 2007–2010 Teaching BA students Introduction to Oriental Studies, Oriental languages and people, History of Oriental scripts at the Department of Altaic Studies, University of Szeged.
• 2007–2008 Teaching Erasmus students from Turkey Introduction to Altaic linguistics. at the Department of Altaic Studies, University of Szeged.
• 2003–2006 Teaching students Comparative Mongolistics, and History of Mongolian scripts, Classical Literary Mongolian grammar and texts, Preclassical Mongolian documents at the Department of Altaic Studies, University of Szeged.
• 2001–2002 Teaching students Descriptive Mongolian grammar at the Department of Inner Asian Studies, Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest.

Working experience

• 2012– Librarian in the Oriental Collection of the Klebelsberg Library of the University of Szeged.
• 2010–2012 Research fellow at the Inner Asian Department, Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest.
• 2007–2010 Researcher assistant in the Joint Research Group for Turkic Studies of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences and the University of Szeged.
• 2006–2007 Librarian of the Oriental Collection, University Library, Szeged.

Professional membership

Member of the Societas Uralo-Altaica

Conferences attended

• 2011 Die Welt der Mongolen: Sprachen und Völker. (Göttingen): Middle Mongol and the Secret History of the Mongols.
• 2009 Problemy mongolovednyx i altaističeskix issledovanij. (Ėlista): Zametki k ėtimologii ėtnonima ojrat.
• 2009 Jazyk kak nacionalˊnoe dostojanie: problemy soxranenija lingvističeskogo raznoobrazija. (Ulan-Udė): The etymology of the ethnonym Oyrat.
• 2008 Orientalista Nap 2008 (Conference organized by the Oriental Committee of the     Hungarian Academy of Sciences) (Budapest): On the etymology of the ethnonym Oyrat. [in Hungarian]
• 2007 Orientalista Nap 2007 (Conference organized by the Oriental Committee of the     Hungarian Academy of Sciences): Mongolic čilagun – Turkic tāš. [in Hungarian]
• 2003 Turkic loanwords of Hungarian (Szeged): Old Turkic runiform inscriptions in Mongolia.
• 2003 Workshop on the history and languages of Central Asia. (Bonn): Introductory presentation about the Mongolic Studies in Szeged, Hungary.
• 2003 Lingdok 3 (Conference for PhD students in Linguistics) (Szeged): The orthography of a Buryat xylograph, and its morals. [In Hungarian]
• 2003 Orientalista Nap (Conference organized by the Oriental Committee of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences) (Budapest): Historical examination of the Mongolic causative suffixes. [in Hungarian]
• 2002 Permanent International Altaistic Conference (Budapest): Two Mongolian compound suffixes from the Middle-Mongolian period.
• 2001 Paper and presentation at the Hungarian National Conference of Young Scholars (Szeged): Some groups of the denominal verb suffixes in the Secret History of the Mongols.
• 1997 Permanent International Altaistic Conference (Szeged) [as an organizer].