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Members

Kun, Bernadette

HYA membership

Period of HYA membership:  2023–

2024–2025 Board member
2025–2026 Co-chair
2026–2027 Co-chair

MTA

Scientific section: Section of Philosophy and Historical Sciences (Section II)
MTA identification number: 10041640
MTA link: https://mta.hu/koztestuleti_tagok?PersonId=25291

Research fields

Psychology, addictions

Affiliation

ELTE Eötvös Loránd University, Faculty of Education and Psychology, Institute of Psychology, Department of Clinical Psychology and Addiction

Bio

Bernadette Kun (Bernadette Eleonóra Kun) is a psychologist, habilitated associate professor at the ELTE PPK Institute of Psychology, and she is a faculty member of the Department of Clinical Psychology and Addiction. She completed her studies at ELTE PPK and received her doctoral degree at the ELTE Doctoral School of Psychology in 2012 (her supervisor was Zsolt Demetrovics). From 2012, she taught and carried out research as an adjunct professor, from 2021 as an associate professor. From 2021 to 2024 she was the head of the Department of Clinical Psychology and Addiction. She is a founding member of the Addiction Research Group at ELTE PPK. Her research interests include substance-related and behavioural addictions and their underlying psychological mechanisms. She specializes in the psychology of work addiction. She is the leader of the Hungarian research team of the international project Global Research on Work Addiction. Since 2022, she has been a member of the board of the Hungarian Association on Addictions. In 2015, she received the “Promising Researcher of ELTE” award. Between 2017–2020  she was the recipient of the János Bolyai Research Fellowship of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, which she won again in 2024. Between 2019–2020 she was awarded the Bolyai+ Fellowship of the New National Excellence Programme. In 2024 she received the grant of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences helping the scientific advancement of researchers raising small children (the grant is provided to enable the writing of the thesis required for the Doctor of MTA title). So far, she has been a senior co-investigator in 7 OTKA projects, and in 2020 she was awarded the OTKA young researchers’ excellence programme grant as a principal investigator for her research entitled “Exploring the cognitive profiles of different addictive behaviours (work addiction, gaming disorder, and cannabis use disorder)”. In 2025 she received funding as a principal investigator with her National Research Excellence Programme (NKKP) ADVANCED application titled “The bio-psycho-social background of work addiction and its addiction and differential diagnosis related specificities”.  She is the supervisor of several PhD students at the ELTE PPK Doctoral School of Psychology. In 2023 she was distinguished with the Sapere Aude Award of the ELTE Faculty of Pedagogy and Psychology and in 2025 with the bronze-level Pro Universitate Medal of Eötvös Loránd University. She is the author of more than 100 scientific papers, book chapters or books, and her total number of scientific publications exceeds 260. Her works have been cited by more than 3000 publications (Hirsch index: 27). She is a qualified psychodrama leader. She is married with two children.

MTMT link

HYA-related publications

A Fiatal Kutatók Akadémiája első hét éve

A Fiatal Kutatók Akadémiája (FKA) immár a hazai tudományos élet egyik fontos szereplője, amely megalakulása óta következetesen azon dolgozik, hogy a fiatal kutatók érdekeit képviselje, szakmai kiválóságukat és fejlődésüket támogassa, enyhítse a tudományos pályán tapasztalható egyenlőtlenségeket, felkeltse és fenntartsa a tudományos pálya iránti érdeklődést, erősítse a kutatók és a társadalom közötti kapcsolatot, valamint aktívan járuljon hozzá a magyar tudománypolitika alakításához. Az FKA fő célja, hogy a fiatal kutatók hangja legyen Magyarországon. Az FKA a Magyar Tudományos Akadémia mellett működő szervezet, amely 2019-ben alakult azzal a céllal, hogy érdekképviseletet biztosítson a 45 év alatti fiatal kutatóknak, továbbá elősegítse tudománypolitikai szerepvállalásukat.

  • Kun Bernadette, Szentgáli-Tóth Boldizsár, Dékány Éva, Kecskés Gábor, Máté Ágnes, Solymosi Katalin, Török Péter, Wilhelm Imola (2026). A Fiatal Kutatók Akadémiája első hét éve. Magyar Tudomány, 187:4, 627–635.

Date of last modification:

2026.06.04.