President of Hungarian High Education Accreditation Committee

Valéria CSÉPE, president of the Hungarian High Education Accreditation Committee was appointed in 2016 for two and in 2018 for six years on common nomination of the president of the Hungarian Academy of sciences and the minister responsible for high education as requested by the High Education Act of Hungary. She is research professor at the RCNS Brain Imaging Centre, professor of cognitive psychology and neuroscience (University of Pannonia), ordinary member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences and member of the Academia Europaea. She worked for two years as Humboldt scholar at the University Münster, Germany, and conducted further research at several internationally recognized research institutes and universities as visiting professor. Recently she is member of an international collaboration on ‘mesosience’ initiated by the Chinese Academy of Sciences and principal investigator and chair of the Education and Training Committee of Neo-PRISM-C project granted by the Horizon 2020 Marie Curie European Training Network program.

Her research focuses on the behavioral and brain correlates of typical and atypical cognitive development from infancy to adulthood. The research group of Neurocognitive Development founded by her at the Brain Imaging Centre of RCNS investigates brain correlates related to the development of spoken and sign language, reading development and disorders, music as well as executive functions and probabilistic learning with various brain and behavior methods. She has more than 350 publications, including several highly cited papers, journal articles, monographs, edited books, book chapters and conference papers in English and Hungarian. She acts as regular reviewer for high impact international scientific journals as well as for different research foundations, committees and scientific councils.

Valéria Csépe served as deputy secretary General of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, elected for two three-year-terms (2008–2014), being the first female in such a high position there. She chaired the Hungarian Academy of Sciences’ Presidential Committee on Public Education from 2008 to 2016. From 2012 to 2018 she worked in the strategic committee of the International Council of Science (ICSU) as elected member and took part in the preparatory works of the International Science Council (merger of ICSU and ISSC). Between 2017 and 2020 she led as principal investigator the national curriculum redesign and implementation EU project in Hungary. She is member of the OECD’s Education 2030 focus group and of the Research Precariat Scoping Group (Global Science Forum activity) of the OECD.