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• Born in Budapest in 1969
• 1975 to 1987 Primary School and Secondary School of Economics in Budapest
• 1988 to 1994 Studied History and English Studies at the Faculty of Philosophy of the Janus Pannonius University of Pécs
• 1992 to 1994 Associate in the programme for the "Publication of our Cultural Heritage" at the Hungarian Academy of Sciences (Institute of History), Budapest
• 1995 to 1996 MA in Medieval Studies at the Central European University, Budapest
• 1996 to 2005 PhD studies at the Chair of Medieval Studies at the Central European University, Budapest (supervisor: Prof. Katalin Szende); at the same time visiting scholar at the Institute for Comparative Urban History (IStG) at the Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität in Münster (March to May 2001) and research and study visits to Dublin, London, Toronto, Rome, Krems (1996, 1997, 1998, 1999) and at the Collegium Hungaricum in Vienna (August to October 2004)
• January 2000 to August 2008 specialist librarian (ELTE-CEU Medieval Library), Budapest
• March to November 2005 Marie Curie Fellow and also Slovakian-Hungarian State Fellow at the Slovak Academy of Sciences in Bratislava
• March 2006 Doctor of Philosophy in: Medieval Studies and History at the Central European University in Budapest
• September 2006 to August 2007 visiting researcher (as Zoltán Magyary scholarship holder) at the Chair of Medieval and Early Modern History at the Eötvös Loránd University in Budapest (project: Pressburg, urban elite and the social relations of the members of the elites in the 15th-16th centuries)
• December 2007 ÖAW scholarship holder in Vienna
• January to August 2008 researcher and academic assistant at the University of Pécs/Fünfkirchen
• March to June 2008 visiting researcher at the Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities (IASH) at the University of Edinburgh
• September 2008 to August 2011 researcher at the Chair of Medieval and Early Modern History at the Eötvös Loránd University in Budapest (project: Raum und Gesellschaft im Spätmittelalter und Sozialtopographie im Vergleich)
• March 2009 to December 2010 Alexander von Humboldt Fellow at the Institute for Comparative Urban History at the Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität in Münster
• Since 2009 member of the editorial board of Korall: Zeitschrift für Sozialgeschichte in Ungarn
• September 2011 to August 2012 visiting researcher at the Chair of Medieval Studies at the Central European University in Budapest
• Since 2012 member of the Committee for History, II. Section: Philosophy and Historical Sciences, at the Hungarian Academy of Sciences
• October 2012 to April 2015 Historian, museologist, head of research at the Ferenczy Museum, Szentendre
• September 2012 to August 2016 Member of the research team on the topic: The Sources and History of the Habsburg-Jagello Summit 1515 at the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Research Centre for the Humanities, Institute of History, Budapest
• Since May 2015 University Assistant at the Department of History, University of Vienna
  
  

Research interests

• Medieval urban history, late medieval social history in Hungary (with a focus on comparative analysis)
• Social topography and the use of urban space (focus on Hungarian cities)
• Social and regional networks between Austria and western Hungary in the late Middle Ages
• Religious life of the citizens (brotherhoods, pilgrimages, processions, etc.), medieval history of urban poor relief
  
  

Publications

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