László G. Nagy

László G. Nagy is a Principal Investigator at the Biological Research Centre, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, in Szeged, Hungary, since 2014. He has held postdoctoral research roles at Clark University (USA) from 2012–2014 and has been affiliated with institutions such as the University of Szeged and the University of Leiden.

• PhD in Biology (2011), University of Szeged
• MSc in Biology (2008), Department of Microbiology, University of Szeged

His research spans Phylogenetics, Fungal Genomics, Systems Biology, and Comparative Evolutionary Genomics, focusing on computational biology and convergent evolution in fungi. He has contributed to 81 publications with a cumulative impact factor of 528.874 and an h-index of 32.

Notable scientific awards include the 2021 Alexopoulos Prize, the 2020 Szent Gyorgyi Talent Prize, and multiple Momentum Program grants from the Hungarian Academy of Sciences. His editorial roles include Associate Editor for Studies in Mycology and reviewer for journals like Nature Microbiology and PNAS.

• 2019 Supercomputing Facility Access Grant (DOE, USA)
• 2018 ERC Starting Grant
• 2016 ERC Acceleration Grant

He has delivered invited talks at international conferences, including the Asian Mycological Congress (2019) and the DOE Joint Genome Institute User Meeting (2017).