András Holl

After university, he worked at the Astronomical Research Institute of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences (MTA), where he later became an IT system administrator (he participated in the establishment of the institution's network connections (X25 and then Internet), supervised the introduction of the first PCs and then the first Sun workstations). He was the representative of the Astronomical Research Institute in the Information Infrastructure Development (IIF) program. In the 1990s, he held IT internships for astronomy students at Eötvös Loránd University (ELTE). In 1994, he launched the electronic version of the Astronomical Research Institute's journal Information Bulletin on Variable Stars on the web. He participated in the installation of the first web servers of several domestic institutions. In 1996, he created and managed the web version of the MTA journal, Magyar Tudomány, until 2009. He led seminars within the framework of the National Information Infrastructure Development Program (NIIFP) IPSZILON project (“Free Programs Seminar and Laboratory”).
In 2009, he launched the MTA Library's repository, REAL, and became involved in organizing the MTMT (Hungarian Scientific Works Archive) program.

Since 2014, he has been the Deputy Director General of IT at the Hungarian Academy of Sciences Library and Information Center (KIK) (supervises the repository, the digitization program, the DOI (Digital Object Identifier) office, the MTMT program, etc.).
Board member of Hungarnet (Hungarian Higher Education, Public Education, Research and Public Collections Computer Network Association), coordinator of the Hungarian Research Data Alliance.

In 2017, he was awarded the Hungarian Golden Cross of Merit, a civil category, as a state award; in 2019, he received the Hungarnet Award from the Hungarnet association.