Peter Csermely

Peter Csermely was born in 1958 in Budapest, Hungary. He is a professor of the Semmelweis University named after the famous Hungarian physician, the "savior of the mothers". His major fields of study are stress, aging and networks (www.linkgroup.hu). In 1995 he launched a highly successful initiative, which provided research opportunities for more than 10,000 gifted high school students(www.nyex.info). In 2006 he established a National Talent Support Council in Hungary. He wrote and edited 11 books (including the Weak Links at Springer) and published two hundred research papers with a total citation over 4,500. Professor Csermely is the member of the Wise Persons' Council of the Hungarian President, the vice president of the Hungarian Biochemical Society is the past president of Cell Stress Society International, an Ashoka Fellow, was a Fogarty and Howard Hughes Scholar and received several other national and international honors and awards including the 2004 Descartes Award of the European Union for Science Communication.

Peter Csermely started his interest in networks very early. When he was five (!) years old he played with the 'establishment' of the 'Peter Csermely Institute of All Sciences'. Around age 7 to 9 he was interested in history and collected all the castles of medieval Hungary from an Encyclopedia of 17 volumes, 800 pages each. In high school he was the single brokerage contact between the two rival groups of his class. His preference for far-reaching, novel contacts was preserved until today.