Associate professor
I obtained my degree in history and archaeology at Eötvös Loránd University, where I also defended my PhD dissertation titled “The Southeast European Connections of the 10th-Century Material Finds of the Carpathian Basin” at the Doctoral School of the Institute of Archaeology.
Between 1995 and 2000, I was an intern in the Medieval Department of the Hungarian National Museum, and from 2000 to 2001 I worked as an archaeologist at the King Saint Stephen Museum in Székesfehérvár. In 2001, I participated as an archaeologist in the large-scale excavation at Balatonszárszó along the Somogy County section of the M7 motorway. From 2002, I became a research fellow, and later a researcher, at the Institute of Archaeology of the Research Centre for the Humanities of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences. Within this institute, I contributed to several NKFP and OTKA research programs. Today, this institution operates as the Institute of Archaeology of the HUN-REN Research Centre for the Humanities, where I continue to work part-time.
Since 2015, I have been involved in archaeological education at Pázmány Péter Catholic University—initially as a lecturer, later as a full-time assistant professor, and subsequently as a head of department associate professor. I have taken part in both domestic and international research programs and scientific grant projects of our institute.
I have previously conducted my research with the support of several international scholarships: in Vienna as a participant in the Studien zur Methodologie der Forschung des Frühmittelalters program and as a fellow of the Collegium Hungaricum; and in Mainz as a fellow of the Römisch-Germanisches Zentralmuseum. In Italy, I carried out research under the title “Relazioni culturali del Bacino dei Carpazi tra il Mediterraneo nell’Alto Medioevo alla luce dei reperti archeologici.”
For my work, I have received several recognitions, including the Academic Youth Award (2006) and the Talentum Academic Award (2007). Between 2013 and 2017, I was a recipient of the Bolyai János Research Scholarship of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences.
My main research areas include the study of the early Hungarians and steppe material culture, the 10th-century archaeological legacy of the Carpathian Basin and its wide international connections, the examination of small finds with Byzantine background, and the archaeology of the Árpádian Age in Hungary.
