1973: Born in Nagyvárad/Oradea
Citizenship: Hungary, Romania, Germany
1991-95: Studies of Mathematics at the Babes-Bolyai University Kolozsvár/Cluj
1995-96: Master, Mathematical Research Institute in the Netherlands (Groningen, Nijmegen, Utrecht, Twente)
1996-2000: Doctoral student, Universiteit van Amsterdam
2000: PhD, Amsterdam. Thesis "The birational geometry of the moduli space of curves". Advisor: Gerard van der Geer
2000-03: Post-Doc, University of Michigan
2003-04: Assistant Professor, Princeton University
2004-06: Assistant Professor (tenure-track), University of Texas at Austin
2006-07: Associate Professor (with tenure), University of Texas at Austin
From 1.04.2007: Full Professor (W3), Humboldt Universität zu Berlin
2022: Member of the Berlin-Brandenburgische Akademie der Wissenschaften
2023: Member of the Academia Europaea
Long term visits: Harvard (9-12.1998, 10-12.1999), Isaac Newton Institute Cambridge (5-7.2002, 2-4.2010), IMPA Rio de Janeiro (2-3.2007), Institut Mittag-Leffler (4-6.2007, 10-11.2021), University of Georgia (3-4.2010), MSRI Berkeley (3-4.2009, 3-4.2019), Institut Henri Poincare Paris (5. 2010), Universita Roma Tre (10-12.2011), Instituto Nazionale di Alta Matematica (10-12.2015), Rényi Institute of Mathematics Budapest (3-7.2022)