Eva Kondorosi

Éva Kondorosi (born 1948) is a Hungarian-French biochemist who is known for her work on Rhizobium-legume symbiosis. She has been a member of the National Academy of Sciences since 2010. In 2015 she became a member of the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina.

Biography

Education Éva Kondorosi was born in 1948 in Budapest, Hungary. She studied biology at the Faculty of Sciences in Budapest and later she earned a doctorate in genetics at the Loránd Eötvös University in Budapest.

Career In 1973, Kondorosi joined the Biology Research Centre of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences in Szeged. As a young researcher, she continued her training and completed several internships abroad at: University of Sussex in the United Kingdom, Harvard and Cornell Universities in the United States, and the Max-Planck Society in Germany between 1973 and 1986. In 1989, she settled in France and joined the National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS) as a research director at the Institute of Plant Sciences in Gif-sur-Yvette. Since March 2013, she has been emeritus research director of the CNRS. She obtained French nationality in 1995.

She has played a leading role in scientific collaboration between France and Hungary.

Throughout her career in France, she maintained close ties with her home institution, the Szeged laboratory. This allowed for collaboration between the Gif-sur-Yvette laboratory and the Szeged laboratory. As a result, the two institutions were twinned through the creation of the BAYGEN Institute (2007–2012), which is now an integral part of the Biology Research Center of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences in Szeged.

Currently, she works at the Biology Research Center of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences in Szeged and heads the Symbiosis Laboratory and the Functional Genomics Unit.

Research Kondorosi is recognized for her work in the study of Rhizobium - legume symbiosis, in particular for the discovery and characterization of a series of cysteine-rich nodule peptides that are important signaling molecules. 2019: Prix de la Ville de Szeged 2018: Balzan Prize for Chemical Ecology 2017: Grand prix de la Fondation Szeged 2012: Hungarian Széchenyi Prize for outstanding scientific contribution 2012: International Society for Plant-Microbe Molecular Interactions (IS-MPMI) Award 2011: Prix de Szeged 2011: Biology Research Prize 2007: Hotchkiss Award 1985: Prize of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences