Membership:
1999-2007 Chair of the Division of Organic and Medicinal Chemistry of the Hungarian Chemical Society (re-elected twice). 2007-2011
President of the Hungarian Chemical Society. 2002-2006 Member of the Council of Scientists, INTAS (EU, Brussels; re-elected).
Associate Editor of Future Med. Chem.
2004-2010 Member of the Executive Committee, and Chairman of Education and Training Committee of European Federation for Medicinal Chemistry (re-elected).
Member of Medicinal Chemistry Subcommittee of IUPAC.
Co-Founder of Paul Ehrlich MedChem Euro-PhD Network (currently 40 European Universities).

Teaching experience:
More than 30 years experiences in delivering main lectures (Organic chemistry and Medicinal chemistry) in teaching courses for pharmaceutical and chemistry students, more recently for students in Infobionics, Medical Biotechnology at graduate and postgraduate levels. Seminars in special topics with the same subjects. Supervision of PhD students. All teaching activities (in Hungarian, English) include domestic and foreign Universities. Invited lecturer for many courses/seminars.

Research Interest:
Medicinal chemistry of cardiovascular, central nervous systems and amine oxidases; molecular modelling and synthesis of biologically active compounds. Synthetic and mechanistic chemistry of pyridazines and nitrogen containing heterocyclic systems. Drug design. Molecular pathomechanisms. Molecular imaging, diagnostics