About Péter Lévai
Born 1962. Péter Lévai is a Hungarian physicist.
Péter Lévai (born 8 August 1962 in Miskolc) is a Hungarian physicist, research professor, director general of HUN-REN Wigner Fizikai Kutatóközpont and a full member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences.
Education Péter Lévai was born in 1962 in Miskolc. He graduated in physics from Eötvös Loránd University in 1986 and was a PhD fellow at the MTA Központi Fizikai Kutatóintézet.
Academic career From 1994, he was a senior research fellow at MTA KFKI RMKI, and from 1999 to 2010 he was a scientific advisor. Since 2012, he has been Director General of the HUN-REN Wigner Research Centre for Physics. In 2010, he was elected a Corresponding Member of the MTA, and in 2016, he was elected a Full Member. and the Academia Europaea.
Personal life He is married and has one daughter.
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