Mátyus, Edit

Edit Mátyus holds a tenured position at Eötvös Loránd University (ELTE). Edit Mátyus attended the science class of Apáczai Grammar School – one of the renowned secondary schools affiliated with ELTE – and won silver medals at the International Chemistry Olympiad in 2000 and 2001. Edit Mátyus studied chemistry at ELTE, carried out doctoral research with Prof. Attila Császár, and defended her PhD dissertation in November 2009. In the same year, she was awarded a two-year ETH Fellowship to start her post-doctoral studies at ETH Zürich with Prof. Markus Reiher. From 2012 to 2016, she was a research fellow at ELTE, being on intermission between 2014 and 2016 to carry out research in Cambridge with Prof. Stuart Althorpe. In 2016, she won a five-year PROMYS Grant of the Swiss National Science Foundation to start an independent research group in Budapest. In 2019, she was awarded an ERC Starting Grant. In 2021, she was recepient of the Dirac Medal of the World Association of Theoretical and Computational Chemists. The main activities in her research group are currently focused on the fundamental theory of molecular matter and the use of relativistic quantum electrodynamics for atomic and molecular systems. She is married with two children.