Personal

• Name: István Kovács
• Place and date of birth: Gyöngyös, 1st January 1985.
• Mother’s name: Ilona Katalin Forgács
• Nationality: Hungarian
• E-mail: steve3281-at-bolyai.elte.hu
• Home address: Deák Ferenc str. 26, H-3281 Karácsond, Hungary
• Mobile phone: +36-30-606-5819

Education

• 2008- PhD student in physics Eötvös University of Sciences (ELTE), Budapest, Hungary: Statistical Physics, Biological Physics and Physics of Quantum Systems Program
  Supervisors: Iglói Ferenc, Szépfalusy Péter member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences (HAS)
• 2008: M.Sc. in physics (excellent)
  Supervisor: Iglói Ferenc, HAS Research Institute for Solid-state Physics and Optics
  Critical and off-critical behaviour of disordered quantum spin chains
• 2006-2008: statistical physics and high-energy physics specialization
• 2005: Summer School on Quantum Information Processing, Valkonya, Hungary
• 2003- member of the ELTE Bolyai College
• 2003- member of the Eötvös Collegium
• 2003-2008: undergraduate of physics, ELTE
• 2003 High school final exam (A+ with distinction; Physics-German specialization)
• 1995-2003: Berze Nagy János High School, Gyöngyös, Hungary

Research activity

• 2005: 8 referred paper, 1 book chapter. 11 independent citations
• 2003-2008: Research activities, supervised by Prof. Péter Csermely, SE
• 2007: Research Student Conference of the Budapest University of Technology and Economics (BME): 1st place, award of the president of the BME
• 2007: Research Student Conference of the Semmelweis Medical University (SE): 3rd place
• 2006-2007: Patent application: P0600116 (hungarian), PCT/IB2007/050471

Teaching activity

• 2008: Networks, PhD course and special lecture (with Prof. Péter Csermely), joint course of ELTE, BME, SE, Corvinus University of Budapest

Awards and honors:

• 2009: Scientific Student's Association Report - István Kovács, Robin Palotai, Máté Szalay: Novel methods for overlapping clustering of vertices of graphs, with biochemical, sociological and telecommunication applications. (National level - Second prize)
  
• 2008: “Excellent student of the ELTE Faculty of Sciences” award
• 2008: “For the ELTE Bolyai College” award
• 2007/2008: Scholarship of the Republic of Hungary
• 2006/2007: Scholarship of the Republic of Hungary
• 2004/2005: Scholarship of the Republic of Hungary
• 2003: “Students of Gyöngyös city for the Knowledge” award

Visits abroad

• 2007 Universität des Saarlandes, Saarbrücken, Germany: (1 month)
• 2007 Microsoft Research - University of Trento Centre for Computational and Systems Biology, Trento, Italy: (3 days)
• 2006 Rhodes University, Grahamstown, Republic of South Africa (1 week)

International conferences and schools

• 2008 International seminar and workshop on Unconventional Phases and Phase Transitions in Strongly Correlated Electron Systems, Dresden, Germany
• 2008 33rd Conference of the Middle European Cooperation in Statistical Physics, Puchberg/Wels, Austria, abstract
• 2008 Day of Statistical Physics, Hungary: presentation
• 2007 2nd Proceeding of the Hungarian Association of Proteomics, Debrecen, Hungary: presentation
• 2007 International workshop on complex systems and networks, Sovata, Romania: presentation
• 2007 Palotai, R., Kovács, I., Szalay M., Csermely, P.: ModuLand, a powerful and extensive family of methods to uncover the overlapping modules and hierarchy of complex networks. 3rd Yamada Symposium on the Integration of Biological Systems, Hayama, Japan, poster

Organizing conferences

• 2005 student organizer of the 30th FEBS Congress and 9th IUBMB Conference
• 2004-2006 organizer of the 9-10-11th Bolyai Conference

Social activities

• 2003- Vándor Chorus of Budapest (Gold diploma of the 7th International Chorus Days in Bad Ischl)
• 1999-2003 Cantus Corvinus Chorus (cum laude chorus with numerous performances and awards)
• 1999-2003 participation in the I*EARN English cultural camps
• 1995-2003 school dramas, musicals (main actor in Hair)
• 1995-2003 high school chorus (tenor)

Language skills

• German (intermediate), english, latin (3 years)

Skills in informatics

• Programming in: C, C++, Pascal, Perl
• Linux, Windows

Hobbies

• logical and board games, philosophy
• hiking, table tennis, swimming
• drawing, singing, cooking, arts requiring sophisticated manual skills

Competitons

During my studies I participated more than 50 competitions in physics, mathematics, chemistry, biology and history. A shortened list of these competitions:

• 1994/95 towns competition of mathematics, 1. place
• 1996/97 Béla Gács town competition of mathematics, 3rd place
• 1997/98
  • Tamás Varga national mathematics competition, 5th place
  • Ilona Zrínyi county mathematics competition, 1st place
  • Béla Gács town competition of mathematics, 1st place
  • National history competition, 3rd placed team member
  • László Kalmár county mathematics competition, 2nd place
• 1998/99
  • Sándor Mikola national physics competition: diplom of honour
  • György Hevesy national chemistry competition, 12th place
  • Béla Gács town competition of mathematics, 1st place
  • József Öveges national physics competition II. prize (4th place)
  • National history competition, 2nd placed team member
  • Ilona Zrínyi county mathematics competition, 2nd place
• 1999/2000
  • Gordiusz national mathematics competition 17th place
  • Dániel Arany national mathematics competititon, diplom of honour
  • Leó Szilárd national physics competition: finalist
  • Sándor Mikola national physics competition, 6th place
  • József Irinyi national chemistry competition, 27th place
  • József Palotás county mathematics competition, 1st place
  • town competition of mathematics, 1st place
  • József Öveges national physics competition: diplom of honour
  • Zoltán Árokszállásy biology competition: finalist
• 2000/2001
  • Dániel Arany national mathematics competititon, diplom of honour
  • Leó Szilárd national physics competition: 2nd place
  • Sándor Mikola national physics competition, 16th place
  • Gordiusz national mathematics competition 26th place
  • József Palotás county mathematics competition, 1st place
  • Tibor Márai county physics competition, 1st place
  • József Irinyi county chemistry competition, 4th place
  • town competition of mathematics, 2nd place
  • Pál Bugát national biology competition, member of team on 8th place
  • Zoltán Árokszállásy biology competition: finalist
• 2001/2002
  • Leó Szilárd national physics competition: 8th place
  • Miklós Vermes international physics competition, 3rd place
  • Gordiusz national mathematics competition 8th place
  • Pál Bugát national biology competition, member of team on 3rd place
  • National mathematics competition: county finalist
  • National physics competition: county finalist
  • Tibor Márai county physics competition, 1st place
  • József Palotás county mathematics competition, 1st place
  • town competition of mathematics, 1st place
• 2002/2003
  • Gordiusz national mathematics competition 25th place
  • National mathematics competition: 42nd place
  • National physics competition: county finalist
  • Leó Szilárd national physics competition: 1st place
  • Tibor Márai county physics competition, 1st place
  • József Palotás county mathematics competition, 1st place
  • town competition of mathematics, 1st place
  • Pál Bugát national biology competition: finalist

Publications

1. Kovács, I.A., Palotai, R., Szalay, M.S. and Csermely, P. (2010) Community landscapes: a novel, integrative approach for the determination of overlapping network modules. www.arxiv.org/abs/0912.0161 Preprint: www.linkgroup.hu/modules.php
2. M. Karsai, I. A. Kovács, J-Ch. Angles d'Auriac and F. Iglói (2008) Density of critical clusters in strips of strongly disordered systems. Phys. Rev E 78 061109. Visit it at arxiv.org!
3. F. Iglói and I. A. Kovács (2008) Griffiths-McCoy singularities in random quantum spin chains: Exact results. Phys. Rev. B 77 144203.Visit it at arxiv.org!
4. Zoltan Spiro, Istvan A Kovacs and Peter Csermely (2008) Drug-therapy networks and the prediction of novel drug targets. Journal of Biology 2008, 7:20 Visit it at arxiv.org!
5. Csermely, P., Korcsmáros, T., Kovács, I.A., Szalay M.S. and Sőti, C. (2008) Systems biology of molecular chaperone networks. In: The biology of extracellular molecular chaperones. Novartis Foundation Symposium Series Vol. 291, Wiley, pp. 45-58. Visit it at arxiv.org!
6. Böde. C., Kovács, I.A., Szalay, M., Palotai, R. Korcsmáros, T. and Csermely, P. (2007) Network analysis of protein dynamics. FEBS Lett. 581:2776-2782, IF: 3,4 Visit it at arxiv.org!
7. Szalay, M., Kovács, I.A., Korcsmáros, T., Böde. C. and Csermely, P. (2007) Stress-induced rearrangements of cellular networks: consequences for protection and drug design. FEBS Lett. 581, 3675-3680, IF: 3,4 Visit it at arxiv.org!
8. Korcsmáros, T., Szalay, M., Böde. C., Kovács, I.A. and Csermely, P. (2007) How to design multi-target drugs: Target-search options in cellular networks. Expert Op. Drug Discov. 2:1-10, Visit it at arxiv.org!
9. Korcsmáros, T., Kovács, I.A., Szalay, M.S. and Csermely, P. (2007) Molecular chaperones: the modular evolution of cellular networks. J. Biosci. 32, 441-446, IF: 1,0 Visit it at arxiv.org!
10. Kovacs, I.A., Szalay, M.S. and Csermely, P. (2005) Water and molecular chaperones act as weak links of protein folding networks: energy landscape and punctuated equilibrium changes point towards a game theory of proteins. FEBS Lett. 579, 2254-2260, IF: 3,8 Visit it at arxiv.org!