Csaba Szabó, a senior member of our research group, won this year's Kálmán Medzihradszky Prize. The Dean of the Faculty, based on the initiative of the Scientific Student Council of ELTE Faculty of Science and Technology, by majority vote, awarded the Kálmán Medzihradszky Prize 2025 to Dr. Csaba Szabó, retired Associate Professor of the Institute of Geography and Earth Sciences, outstanding researcher of the Department of Petrology and Geochemistry of the Faculty of Natural Sciences and the Lithosphere Fluid Research Laboratory of ELTE.

With a career spanning more than four decades, Csaba Szabó is an internationally renowned scholar of petrology and geochemistry, whose name is intertwined with the exemplary tradition of talent management and scientific education in our Faculty. Through his teaching and mentoring, he has launched generations of researchers into scientific careers, many of his students have become leaders in national and international research institutions. His commitment to the scientific student circle movement, his more than thirty-five PhD students, his many nationally awarded TDK projects under his leadership and his decades of organizational work are all testimony to his tireless work in educating young scientists. Csaba Szabó's life's work as a talent manager, his work in creating scientific schools and his unwavering commitment to science set an exceptional example for us all.

The report can be accessed here, and a video interview can be reach via here.