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Of the 75 eligible applications for HYA membership, twelve new members have been elected by the HYA election committee, taking into consideration the votes of members of MTA’s public body below the age of 45, the academic achievements of the applicants and their commitment to the objectives of HYA, as well as the principle of diversity according to scientific discipline, gender and geographical distribution.

Please find the list of the new members of HYA elected for the period from 1 May 2024 to 30 April 2029:

Veronika Barta (HUN-REN Institute of Earth Physics and Space Science)

Kinga Bíró (Budapest University of Technology and Economics)

Dávid Havasi (Budapest University of Technology and Economics)

Eszter Hegyi (University of Pécs)

Zsuzsa Kaló (Eötvös Loránd University)

Márton Kolossváry (Gottsegen National Cardiovascular Center)

Júlia Koltai (HUN-REN Research Centre for Social Sciences)

Bence Kutus (University of Szeged)

Bernadett Modrián-Horváth (University of Szeged)

Tamás Ruppert (University of Pannonia)

Csaba Vad (HUN-REN Centre for Ecological Research)

Ágnes Zsila (Pázmány Péter Catholic University)

Congratulations to our new members, and we look forward to working together with them!

At the same time, may we express our warm thanks to those twelve HYA founding members who will join the HYA alumni community from 1 May, namely:

Donát Alpár (Semmelweis University), former HYA board member

Erika Bálint(Budapest University of Technology and Economics), former HYA board member

Éva Dékány (HUN-REN Hungarian Research Centre for Linguistics), former HYA co-chair

Balázs Enyedi (Semmelweis University)

Mária Ercsey-Ravasz (Babeş-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca, Romania)

Csaba Janáky (University of Szeged), former HYA board member

Ágnes Kóspál (HUN-REN Research Centre for Astronomy and Earth Sciences)

Balázs Lengyel (HUN-REN Research Centre for Economic and Regional Studies), the leader of the 2021 survey titled “The situation of young researchers in academia”

Ágnes Máté (MTA Library and Information Centre), former HYA board member

Eszter Novák-Gselmann (University of Debrecen), former HYA board member

Domonkos Sik (Eötvös Loránd University)

Gergely Toldi (University of Auckland), former HYA board member, the “founding father” of HYA

Thank you for your invaluable work, and we hope to count on you in the future as well!