(DSc, PhD, Hab., MA in History, Literature and Linguistics from ELTE, Budapest)
Senior research fellow and research director at Institute of Advanced Studies, Kőszeg, Hungary (iASK). Founding director, BME-UNESCO Information Society and Trend Research Institute (1998-2006), associate professor, former Head, Department of Cultural Heritage and Human Information Science, Faculty of Arts, University of Szeged (2007-2022). He was a Fulbright Research Scholar, George Washington University, Center of International Science and Technology Policy (2006), Georgetown University, Department of History (2007). He served as a Chair of Preservation of Information Working Group of UNESCO Information for All program (IFAP) from 2016-2023.
His research interest includes multidisciplinary information science, information society studies, social impacts of information technology, comparative analysis of national information strategies, artificial intelligence, digital ecosystem, information history, information culture, press history, education in the information age, knowledge management theory and practice, smart cities, cultural microheritage, Citizen Science.