Name: Bálint File, Ph.D.
Position: Research Fellow
Address: Dept. of Computational Sciences,
Wigner Research Centre for Physics,
Konkoly-Thege M. út 29-33,
Budapest, H-1121, Hungary
Office: KFKI Campus, Building 6, Floor 2, Room 6.
E-mail: somogyvari.zoltan at wigner dot hu
Phone: +36 1 392 2222 x1238
Fax: +36 1 392 2742
EDUCATION
2015 – 2020 PhD, Information Science PPCU, Budapest, Hungary
2013 – 2015 MSc, Info-Bionics Engineering PPCU, Budapest, Hungary
2009 – 2013 BSc, Molecular Bionics PPCU, Budapest, Hungary
WORK EXPERIENCE
2022 – Consultant Alkahest, Inc., San Carlos, California, USA
2020 – Research Fellow Wigner RCP, TNCS Group, Budapest, Hungary
2020 – 2021 Research Fellow RCNS, Ulbert’s Lab, Budapest, Hungary
2018 – 2020 Junior Research Fellow Wigner RCP, TNCS Group, Budapest, Hungary
2018 – 2020 Junior Research Fellow RCNS, Ulbert’s Lab, Budapest, Hungary
2013 – 2016 Trainee RCNS, Márk Molnár’s Lab, Budapest, Hungary
PRIZES, RESEARCH SUPPORT
2020 New National Excellence Program, grantor: Hungarian Ministry
2020 Publication award, grantor: PPCU
2018 – 2019 New National Excellence Program, grantor: Hungarian Ministry
2019 Publication award, grantor: PPCU
2019 Presentation award, 3rd place, psychology section grantor: Hungarian Association of PhD Students Conference
2014 oct. Short travel grant at Claudio Babiloni’s lab, Rome, Italy grantor: Istituto Italiano di Cultura in Ungaria Budapest
2014 sept-dec Erasmus Internship Department of Clinical Neurophysiology, VU University, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, grantor: European Community
RESEARCH GRANTS
2020-2021 COVIDEA start-up and idea grant title: “Improving coronavirus-related communication”, grantor: NKFIH
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
2018 – Web-mining, Practices and lectures in English, at PPCU
2018 – 2015 Fundamentals of mathematics, Practices in Hungarian, at PPCU
2018 – 2015 Electrophysiology, Practices in English, at PPCU
THESIS SUPERVISION
2020 “Comparison of epileptic networks during resting state and electrical stimulation”, Adrián Szemenyei, BSc, PPCU
2017 “Comparison of EEG source localization techniques”, Dorottya Szász, BSc, PPCU
LANGUAGES
Hungarian fluent
English fluent
Italian beginner
PROGRAMMING
MATLAB expert
R intermediate
Python beginner
COMMUNITY INVOLVEMENTS
Reviews for journals International Journal of Neural Systems
Memberships Hungarian Neuroscience Community
Symposium organization „Discovering “causal” interactions in brain networks: Historical and Methodological perspectives.” (2020), NEURONUS, IBRO-IRUN Forum Krakow, Poland
RESEARCH INTEREST
Structure and dynamics of mental representation networks [3,5,7], EEG time signal analysis [4,6,9], drinkometer time signal analysis [1,2], functional brain network analysis [4,8,9]
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS
Scholar link: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=ipWqPpsAAAAJ
Cumulative Impact Factor: 61
Number of Citations: 297
H-index: 8
[1] Serra, M*., File, B.*, Alceste, D., Raguz, I., Gero, D., Thalheimer, A., Widmer, J., Ismaeil, A., Steinert, R. E., & Spector, A. C. (2022). Burst-pause criterion derivation for drinkometer measurements of ingestive behavior. MethodsX, 101726.
[2] Gero, D., File, B., Alceste, D., Frick, L. D., Serra, M., Ismaeil, A. E. M., Steinert, R. E., Spector, A. C., & Bueter, M. (2021). Microstructural changes in human ingestive behavior after Roux-en-Y gastric bypass during liquid meals. JCI Insight, 6(15).
[3] Gero, D.,* File, B.*, Hinrichs, N., Mueller, M., Ulbert, I., Somogyvári, Z., & Bueter, M. (2020). Mental and emotional representations of “weight loss”: free-word association networks in members of bariatric surgery-related social media communities. Surgery for Obesity and Related Diseases, 16(9), 1312–1320.
[4] File, B.*, Nánási, T.*, Tóth, E., Bokodi, V., Tóth, B., Hajnal, B., Kardos, Z., Entz, L., Erőss, L., & Ulbert, I. (2020). Reorganization of Large-Scale Functional Networks During Low-Frequency Electrical Stimulation of the Cortical Surface. International Journal of Neural Systems, 30(03), 1950022.
[5] File, B., Keczer, Z., Vancsó, A., Bőthe, B., Tóth-Király, I., Hunyadi, M., Ujhelyi, A., Ulbert, I., Góth, J., & Orosz, G. (2019). Emergence of polarized opinions from free association networks. Behavior Research Methods, 51(1), 280–294.
[6] File, D., File, B., Bodnár, F., Sulykos, I., Kecskés-Kovács, K., & Czigler, I. (2017). Visual mismatch negativity (vMMN) for low-and high-level deviances: A control study. Attention, Perception, & Psychophysics, 79(7), 2153–2170.
[7] Keczer, Z., File, B., Orosz, G., & Zimbardo, P. G. (2016). Social representations of hero and everyday hero: A network study from representative samples. PloS One, 11(8), e0159354.
[8] File, B., Klimaj, Z., Somogyvári, Z., Kozák, L. R., Gyebnár, G., Tóth, B., … & Molnár, M. (2016). Age-related changes of the representative modular structure in the brain. In 2016 International Workshop on Pattern Recognition in Neuroimaging (PRNI) (pp. 1-4). IEEE.
[9] Tóth, B., File, B., Boha, R., Kardos, Z., Hidasi, Z., Gaál, Z. A., Csibri, É., Salacz, P., Stam, C. J., & Molnár, M. (2014). EEG network connectivity changes in mild cognitive impairment—Preliminary results. International Journal of Psychophysiology, 92(1), 1–7.
SELECTED TALKS
2020 Neuronus-IBRO, Krakow, Poland
2019 Text Analytics for Health: Applications and Implications, Zürich, Switzerland
2019 13th Annual International Conference on Psychology, Athens, Greece
2018 Singapore Conference on Applied Psychology, Singapore
2016 Neuronus-IBRO & IRUN Neuroscience Forum, Krakow, Poland