Name: Prof. Péter Érdi, Ph.D., DSc
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
Current address: Kalamazoo College, 1200 Academy Street, Kalamazoo, Michigan, 49006, USA
E-mail: perdi@kzoo.edu
Phone: +1 269-337-5720
Founder of our Group, professor at multiple universities and author of several internationally acclaimed scientific books.
Publications and books
Education, degrees and positions
| 1961-1965 | Secondary education in János Bolyai High School, Budapest |
| 1965-1970 | Science Faculty of the Eötvös L. University, Budapest (MSc in chemistry) |
| 1972-1974 | Faculty of Chemical Engineering, Technical University of Budapest (MSc in chemical cybernetics) |
| 1970-1974 | Computer Center of Danube Oil Company: system programmer |
| 1974-1977 | R&D Center of the Hungarian Chemical Industry: system engineer |
| 1977-1981 | Computing Group, Semmelweis University Medical School, Budapest: research fellow |
| 1981 | PhD in chemistry (Stochastic models of chemical reactions) |
| 1981-1983 | 1st Dept. Anatomy, Semmelweis University Medical School Budapest: senior research fellow |
| 1983-1992 | Biophysics Group, Central Research Institute for Physics of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences: senior research fellow |
| 1984 | Institute of Cybernetics, CNR (Arco Felice, Italy): short term visiting scholar |
| 1985 | Univ. P. et M. Curie (Paris, France): short term visiting professor |
| 1986 | Institute of Cybernetics, CNR (Arco Felice, Italy: short term visiting scholar |
| 1986-1989 | Guest Editor, Leonardo (J. of Int. Soc. for Art, Science and Technology) |
| 1988 | University of Guelph (Ont., Canada): short term visiting professor |
| 1989 | University of Michigan (Ann Arbor, U.S.A): short term visiting scholar |
| 1991 | Institute of Cybernetics, CNR (Arco Felice, Italy): short term visiting scholar |
| DSc of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences (Kinetics of Chemical and Biological Networks) | |
| Tampere Univ. Technology (Tampere, Finland): visiting professor | |
| 1992- | Biophysics Group, KFKI Research Institute for Particle and Nuclear Physics, Hungarian Academy of Science: scientific advisor |
| 1993- | Department of Biophysics, KFKI Research Institute for Particle and Nuclear Physics, Hungarian Academy of Science: head |
| 1995- | Professor: Technical University Budapest, Kossuth Lajos University, Debrecen |
| 1996 | Nagoya Univ., Graduate School of Human Informatics: Nakayama Visiting Professorship (short term) |
| 1999 | Tamagawa University, Department of Information & Communication Engineering (short term visiting scholar) |
| 1998-2002 | Széchenyi Professor |
| 2002- | Henry R. Luce Professor of Complex Systems Studies |
| 2009- | Associate Editor of BioSystems |
Research experience
- Stochastic and deterministic models of chemical reactions
- Thermodynamic theory of nonequilibrium systems
- Self-organiziation in the nervous systems
- Brain theory
- Computational neuroscience
- Dynamics of olfactory system
- Computational approach to the functional organization of the hippocampus
- Neural rhythmicity
- Complex systems
- Computational neuropharmacolgy
Memberships
- Editor-in-chief, Cognitive Systems Research
- Member of the Editorial and Programme Advisory Board of the Springer Complexity publishing program
- Member of the Executive Commitee of the European Neural Network Society
- Member of the Editorial Board of the Journal of Applied System Studies
- Member of the Editorial Board of the Cognitive Neurodynamics
- Member of Brain and Mind‘s Editorial Board (2000-2003)
- Member of the Society for Chaos Theory in Psychology & Life Sciences.
- Associate Editor of Neurobiology
- Co-Director of BSCS – Budapest Semester in Cognitive Science
- Member of the Editorial Board of the Nonlinear Biomedical Physics Open Access Journal
Birth date: December 12, 1946
Birth place: Budapest, Hungary
Nationality: Hungarian, US