Hungary’s Top Academic Body Elects New President, Cousin of Incoming Interior Minister
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ussanews.comHungary’s Top Academic Body Elects New President, Cousin of Incoming Interior Minister
The Hungarian Academy of Sciences (MTA) has elected Mihály Pósfai as the 22nd president of the institution on Tuesday, 5 May. The geologist and university professor has been a corresponding member of MTA since 2010 and a full member since 2016, and also happens to be a relative of incoming Minister of Interior Gábor Pósfai. Mihály Pósfai was elected by the 200th General Assembly of MTA, Hungary’s most prestigious academic institution, founded in…
Geologist Mihály Pósfai was elected head of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences at the 200th general assembly. We show what this means for the future of the Academy and what can now happen in scientific life.
The academy has elected its 22nd president.
The president of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, geologist Mihály Pósfai, elected on Tuesday, would transform the current academic system - and based on Péter Magyar's supportive speech and the new MTA president's government connections, it seems that there may finally be a chance for the researchers' long-standing demands to be met.
A few days ago, there was a lot of controversy when Péter Magyar asked his brother-in-law to be the Minister of Justice. However, the expansion of the Tisza family did not end there. Now it has been revealed that the newly appointed president of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences is none other than the cousin of the future Minister of the Interior.
Pósfai is a Széchenyi Professorship Fellow and has previously received the Academy Award and the Széchenyi Prize.
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