Laszlo Mere

His original profession was as a mathematician, and later, in 1980, he received a doctorate in technical sciences (artificial intelligence).
Between 1974 and 1984, he initially worked on image processing at the Hungarian Academy of Sciences' Computer Science and Automation Research Institute (SZTAKI), but his interest increasingly turned towards artificial intelligence.

He has been working as a psychological researcher at the Institute of Psychology of ELTE and as a professor at the Babes-Bolyai University of Cluj-Napoca since 1984. His teaching subjects include: Economic Psychology, Human Thinking and Decision, Logic of Emotions, Game Theory, Memetics, Research Methodology. Since 2020, he has been a professor emeritus at ELTE.

He ran a game software development company for nearly twenty years, and worked with Ernő Rubik for a few years. Since then, he has been helping other companies more as a consultant and coach. As a co-founder of Darwin's Marketing Evolution, he has been working on the development of memetic marketing research technology since 2003. Their results have been successfully used to establish the memetic communication of many well-known brands and products.

His books written for a wider intellectual audience (Rhetorics, Everyone is Equal in Everything, The Evolution of Money, The Logic of Emotions, The Logic of Miracles) have been published in a total of 8 languages so far, and the second one won the “Scientific Book of the Year in Germany in 1998”. Four volumes of his short writings (“five-minute essays”) have been published so far. His book The Logic of Miracles was published in English by Yale University Press in the spring of 2018.

His awards: bronze medal at the Mathematical Olympiad (Moscow, 1968); Kalmár Prize (NJSZT, 1998); József Eötvös Prize (Minister of Education, 2009).