Lectures and seminars What is life? Learning and decision making mechanisms of complex networks
Speaker: Peter Csermely, Dept of Medical Chemistry, Semmelweiss University, Budapest
Host: Ingemar Ernberg
Biography
Peter Csermely is professor in biochemistry at Semmelweis University. His major fields of study are the adaptation and learning of complex networks From 1989 to 1991 he worked as a Fogarty Fellow at the Harvard. After his postdoctoral fellowship years he became a professor at the Semmelweis University. In 2012 he was a scholar of the Rockefeller Foundation Bellagio Center. He is a member of the Academia Europaea of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences. He is a great teacher. In 1995 Csermely launched a highly successful initiative, which provided research opportunities for more than 10,000 gifted high school students. From 2012 he became the president of the European Council for High Ability.. He published many seminal papers on network theory and a popular science book Weak Links in 2006