ÉRDI, Péter

Name: Prof. Péter Érdi, Ph.D., DSc
Address: Dept. Biophysics, KFKI RIPNP of the HAS, Konkoly-Thege M. út 29-33, Budapest, H-1121, Hungary
Office: KFKI Campus, Building 13, Floor 1, Room 3/B.
E-mail: erdi@sunserv.kfki.hu
Phone: +36 1 392 2222 x3452
Fax: +36 1 392 2742
Current address: Kalamazoo College, 1200 Academy Street, Kalamazoo, Michigan, 49006, USA
Homepage: http://cc.kzoo.edu/~perdi

Education, degrees and positions

	2009	Associate Editor of BioSystems
	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 (Stochasticmodels 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)
	T	ampere 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

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

Major books

• Érdi P & Tóth J: Mathematical Models of Chemical Reactions. Manchester Univ. Press., 1989. Princeton Univ. Press., 1989.
• Arbib MA, Érdi P and Szentágothai J: Neural Organization: Structure, Function Dynamics. MIT Press, A Bradford Book, 1997
• Érdi P: Complexity explained. Springer, 2007

Memberships

• 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

Lecture materials

• Péter Érdi: Social Systems as Complex Interactive Networks
  Kalamazoo College in Kalamazoo in 2001
  
• Péter Érdi: Epileptogenesis in the olfactory cortex: some facts and models
  Baltimore Universty Maryland - Neuroscience Program in 2001
  
• Péter Érdi: Complexity of the Brain. Structure, Function and Dynamics
  Frontiers in Science Lecture at Charles E. Schmidt College of Science, Florida Atlantic University in 2001
  
• Péter Érdi: Neurodynamical System Theory
  IEEE-INNS-ENNS International Joint Conference on Neural Networks in Como in 2000
  
• Péter Érdi: Narrowing the gap between neural models and brain imaging data: a mesoscopic approach to neural population dynamics
  2000 Neuroscan Workshop at Duke University in 2000
  
• Péter Érdi: Computational Approach to the Functioning of the Hippocampus: From Natural to Artificial Information Processing
  held at ICANN'99 in Edinburgh in 1999
• Péter Érdi: Neural information processing: normal and pathological.
  Third Conference on the Foundations of Information Science, Paris, France, 4-7 July, 2005. For sponsors see http://www.mdpi.org/fis2005/sponsors.html (pdf 1.3 MB)
• Péter Érdi: Cortical Organization: An Overview from Computational Perspective.
  Erice, Italy, November 1, 2003 (pdf 1808 kB)
• Péter Érdi: John von Neumann: The Computer and the Brain.
  Erice, Italy, November 3, 2003 (pdf 319 kB)
• Péter Érdi: Pharmacological Modification of Septohippocampal rhythms: computational approach. Rutgers, March 2003 (pdf 1415 kB)
• Péter Érdi: Economy from the Perspective of Complex Systems.
  Upjohn Institute for Employment Research, Kalamazoo, MI in February 2003 (pdf - 2952 kB)
• Péter Érdi: Computational Neuroscience: Towards Neuropharmacological Applications.
  Pharmacia Corporation, Neuroscience Division, Kalamazoo, MI October 2002 (ppt - 1002 kB)
• Péter Érdi: Complex (not only neural) networks.
  Tutorial, held at ICANN 2002, Madrid, August 2002 (pdf - 2260 kB)
• Péter Érdi: The Brain as a Hermeneutic Device.
  Distinguished Lecture Series in Cognitive Science, Carleton University, Ottawa, ON, Canada 2002 February (ps - 151kB)
  

Birth date: December 12, 1946
Birth place: Budapest, Hungary
Nationality: Hungarian