Achievements

Projects and scholarships

National Research Excellence Program (NKKP EXCELLENCE_25) of the National Research, Development and Innovation Office of Hungary (2026-2027) - Principal Investigator | Investigating the formation of biofilms capable of carbon dioxide-driven bioelectrosynthesis on innovative biopolysaccharide-based composite enzymatic ionogel cathodes

National Research Excellence Program (NKKP STARTING_24) of the National Research, Development and Innovation Office of Hungary (2025-2028) - Principal Investigator | Synthesis, characterization and feasibility of cellulose-based ionogels as innovative membrane materials for microbial electrochemical technologies

France Excellence Hongrie (FEH) Research Scholarship (2024), France, Narbonne | Electro-Fermentation Approach for the Intensification of Dark Fermentative Hydrogen Production from Organic Waste

University Research Scholarship Programme (EKÖP) of the National Research, Development and Innovation Office of Hungary (2024-2025 and 2025-2026)

János Bolyai Research Fellowship of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences (2022-2025) | Simultaneous Energy and Resource Recovery from Waste by Microbial Desalination Technology

New National Excellence Program Postdoctoral Fellowship of the National Research, Development and Innovation Office of Hungary (2022-2024) + 6 years supervised pre-doctoral fellowship during MSc/PhD).

DAAD Short-Term Research Scholarship – DBFZ, Germany, Leipzig (2020) | Membrane-related aspects of microbial and electrochemical desalination cells

Campus Mundi Research Scholarship - UFZ, Germany, Leipzig (2019)

Awards and achievements

Researcher of the Year Award of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences (VEAB-region), 2025

“The very best speech” award, 3rd International Conference on Pollution Prevention and Clean Technologies (ICPPCT 2023), Czech Republic

Young Scholar Award of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences (2024)

Tamás Roska Award (2023)

Junior Prima Award (Hungarian Science Category) (2022)

Best PhD dissertation award of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences (VEAB-region), 2022

Outstanding Young Researcher award of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences (VEAB-region) (2017)

Poster Presentation award (PERMEA & MELPRO 2016), Czech Republic