Z. Laszlo Karvalics

Between 1985 and 1988, he taught Hungarian and history at Martos Flóra High School. and between 1985 and 1987, he was a member of the University Council of Eötvös Loránd University (ELTE).

From 1988 to 1991, he worked at the Department of Political Theory and History at the Budapest University of Technology (BME), later serving as the scientific deputy to the head of the department and a member of the institute's education committee. He created and led the Historical Informatics workshop course at the Faculty of Humanities (BTK) of ELTE. Between 1991 and 1992, he taught a course at the Budapest University of Economics (BKE).

In 1992, he was an assistant professor and then deputy head of the Department of Social Informatics at BME, where his research areas are information society theory, historical informatics, and the information society.

Since 1994, he has been a member of the Budapest Bureau of the Society for the Promotion of Natural Sciences (TIT) and a member of the Journalism Department of the National Association of Hungarian Journalists (MÚOSZ). In 1995, he participated in the preparation of the IT chapter of the government's modernization program.
He obtained his PhD in history in 1995. He received a Széchenyi Professorial Scholarship between 1999 and 2003, and then habilitated at the ELTE Faculty of History in 2005. He spent 2006-2007 on a Fulbright research scholarship in the United States.

His key studies dealing with the conceptual and methodological issues of "Information History" were published between 1995 and 1996. In 1996, he prepared a chapter for the National Informatics Strategy.

In 1998, he was the founding director of the Information Society and Trend Research Center (ITTK), a member of the Hungarian UNESCO Committee, and in 1999, the Vice-Chairman of the Committee.

In 2001, he was the vice-chairman of the Computer and Pedagogy Subcommittee of the Pedagogical Committee of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, and since 2004, he has been a member of the National Council for Information and Information Technology (NHIT). In 2005, he was head of the Department of Information and Knowledge Management of the Faculty of Economics and Social Sciences (GTK) of the BME, and then between 2007 and 2011, he was head of the Department of Library and Human Information Sciences of the University of Szeged. In 2010, he was the head of the Information Society subprogram of the Research University Program of the University of Szeged (SZTE). He is a supervisor in the Interdisciplinary Social Research Program of the Doctoral School of Sociology of the Faculty of Social Sciences (TáTK) of the ELTE University.

He participates in numerous domestic and international advisory boards and research programs (OTKA, IFIP, UNESCO, etc.) - primarily in the areas of information society, comparative analysis of national IT strategies, generational change of knowledge technologies, social theory of the networked world, education and IT.

Honors: Outstanding Lecturer of the ELTE BTK (1998); Professional Medal "For Hungarian Informatics" (Minister of Informatics and Communications, 2000); Knight's Cross of the Civil Section of the Republic's Medal of Merit (2004); Neumann Prize (NJSZT, 2008).