Imre Derényi

full professor

PhD (Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest, 1997)

Habilitation (Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest, 2005)

Doctor of HAS (2006)

Room(s): Lágymányos Campus, Northern Building 3.78
Extension(s): +36-1-372-2500 / 6366
Homepage: derenyi.web.elte.hu
Email: uh.etle@iynered

Biography:

Education:

2007: PhD in Physics, Eötvös University, Hungary
1994: MSc in Physics, Eötvös University, Hungary

Current Positions:

2012-present: Professor, Dept. of Biological Physics, Eötvös University, Hungary
2017-present: Head of the MTA-ELTE Statistical and Biological Physics Research Group, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Hungary

Previous Positions:

2007-2012: Associate Professor, Dept. of Biological Physics, Eötvös University, Hungary
2002-2007: Assistant Professor, Dept. of Biological Physics, Eötvös University, Hungary
2000-2002: Marie Curie Research Fellow, Institut Curie, France
2000: Research Fellow, Collegium Budapest, Hungary
1997-1999: Research Associate, University of Chicago, USA

Awards and Fellowships:

2019: Academy Award of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences
2006: Burgen Fellowship of the Academia Europaea
2006: Physics Award of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences
2005--2008: János Bolyai Research Fellowship
2003: Imre Bródy Award of the Eötvös Physical Society
2002--2005: Békésy Post-doc Fellowship
2000--2002: Marie Curie Individual Fellowship

Research Interest:

Evolutionary Theories (somatic evolution, cancer development)
Membrane Dynamics (shape changes of lipid vesicles)
Protein Dynamics (molecular motors, molecular adhesion)
Complex Networks

Links to associated scientific database profiles:

Publications in MTMT
Publications in ORCID
Publications in ResearcherID
Publications in Scopus
Publications in Google Scholar
User profile at doktori.hu

Selected publications of recent years:

A compartment size dependent selective threshold limits mutation accumulation in hierarchical tissues; Dániel Grajzel, Imre Derényi, Gergely J. Szöllősi; bioRxiv DOI.
Hierarchical tissue organization as a general mechanism to limit the accumulation of somatic mutations; Derényi I and Szöllősi GJ; Nature Communications 8:14545 (2017) DOI.
Effective Temperature of Mutations; Imre Derényi and Gergely J. Szöllősi; Phys. Rev. Lett. 114, 058101 (2015) DOI.
Rupture of lipid vesicles near solid surfaces; Annamária Takáts-Nyeste and Imre Derényi; Phys. Rev. E 90, 052710 (2014) DOI.