Research interest:
Natural product chemistry, including isolation, structure elucidation and semi-synthetic modification of bioactive plant constituents, primarily of ecdysteroids and flavonoids; natural compounds of potential anticancer or multi-drug resistance decreasing activity; compounds, that exert selective activity against MDR cancer; bioactivity-focused semi-synthesis of natural compounds.

Teaching experience:
2007- : Responsible lecturer of pharmacy course on illegal drugs
2006- : Supervisor of diploma theses of pharmacy students
2006- : Lecturer of phytotherapy for pharmacy technicians
2005- : Lecturer of pharmacognosy laboratory practices in English
2002- : Lecturer of pharmacognosy laboratory practices for Hungarian pharmacy students
1998-2002: Student lecturer at the Institute of Pharmacognosy

Memberships:
2012-2013 : American Chemical Society
2012- : COST Action CM1106 (Chemical Approaches in Targeting Drug Resistance in
Cancer Stem Cells) of the European Commission; working group member
2011-2013 : COST Action CM0804 (Chemical Biology with Natural Products) of the
European Commission; management committee member
2011- : External expert of the European Food and Safety Administration (EFSA)
2007- : Hungarian Chemist Society
2007- : Hungarian Society for Separation Sciences
2004- : Phytochemical Society of Europe
2001- : The Hungarian Society for Pharmaceutical Sciences

Fellowships:
2009-2011 (19 months) Zoltán Magyary reintegration grant
2008-2009 (12 months) Postdoctoral fellowship of the National Science Council, Taiwan;
Kaohsiung Medical University, Graduate Institute of Natural Products, 100
Shih Chuan 1ST Rd, Kaohsiung 807, Taiwan, Republic of China
Short-term scientific missions:
07.07.2013 - 07.08.2013. (1 month) Invited lecturer at the Kaohsiung Medical University,
Kaohsiung, Taiwan
10.01.2012 - 20.01.2012. (10 days) National lnstitute for Laser, Plasma and radiation
Physics, Bucharest, Romania
02.11.2011 - 17.11.2011. (2 weeks) National lnstitute for Laser, Plasma and radiation
Physics, Bucharest, Romania
17.10.2010 - 09.11.2010. (3 weeks) Kaohsiung Medical University, Kaohsiung, Taiwan