Curriculum Vitae: Prof. Dr. Peter Csermely

Peter Csermely (53) is a professor of the Semmelweis University (Budapest, Hungary). His major fields of study are networks, adaptation and aging (www.linkgroup.hu). In 1995 Dr. Csermely launched a highly successful initiative, which provided research opportunities for more than 10,000 gifted high school students so far (www.nyex.info). In 2006 he established the Hungarian National Talent Support Council (www.tehetsegpont.hu) running a talent support network involving approx. a hundred thousand people and establishing a Europe-wide network of talent support (www.talentday.eu). He wrote and edited 15 books (including the Weak Links at Springer) and published two hundred research papers with a total citation over 5,000. Dr. Csermely was the member of the Wise Persons’ Council of the Hungarian President, is a vice president of the Hungarian Biochemical Society is the past president of Cell Stress Society International, an Ashoka Fellow, was a Fogarty and Howard Hughes Scholar and received several other national and international honors and awards including the 2004 Descartes Award of the European Union for Science Communication.