Modrián-Horváth, Bernadett

Bernadett Modrián-Horváth is a lecturer at the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences at the University of Szeged and a researcher at the DiAGram Center for Functional Linguistics at Eötvös Loránd University. She graduated from Eötvös Loránd University, where she also earned her Ph.D. with summa cum laude honours in 2014. The topic of her dissertation was a corpus-based study of the information structure of the Hungarian and German languages, which she completed with the support of the Jedlik Ányos Doctoral Candidate Scholarship. She began her teaching career at Pázmány Péter Catholic University in 2011; she served as a part-time lecturer in 2016 and has been an assistant professor at the Department of German Linguistics at the University of Szeged since 2017. As a co-researcher, she has participated in five OTKA and NRDIO projects. From 2017 to 2021, she was a participant in the project titled “German-Hungarian Language Comparison: Corpus-Technological, Functional-Semantic, and Language-Didactic,” and since 2018, she has served as co-manager of the German-Hungarian Learner Corpus (Dulko), developed within the framework of the project. She has published articles in two volumes of Wörterbücher zur Sprach- und Kommunikationswissenschaft. She participated in the organization of the lecture series Corpus Linguistic Methods in Cognitive Linguistics Research as well as two other international conferences. Her research was recognized in 2026 with the Gragger Róbert Award.