Curriculum vitae

Personal data

Name: Ákos Végvári
Date of Birth: August 31, 1968
Nationality: Swedish/Hungarian

Current Employment

Proteomics Biomedicum Core Facility
Department of Medical Biochemistry and Biophysics, Karolinska Institutet

Solnavägen 9, 171 65 Stockholm
Tel: +46-8-524 877 07

Undergraduate Studies

1992 B.Sc. in Biology and Chemistry - Faculty of Natural Sciences, University of Pécs, Pécs, Hungary
1996 M.Sc. in Biology - Faculty of Natural Sciences, University of Pécs, Pécs, Hungary

Scientific Education


2001

Ph.D. in chemistry
(Thesis: New Approaches in Analysis of Biomolecules Using Capillary Electrophoresis – Methodological Studies)
Medical Faculty, University of Pécs, Pécs, Hungary

2003

Ph.D. in biochemistry
(Thesis: True Monoliths as Separation Media – Homogeneous Gels for Electrophoresis and Electrochromatography in Capillary and Microchip Modes)
Dept. of Biochemistry, Uppsala University, Uppsala
2006 Associate professor in biochemistry Dept. of Biochemistry and Organic Chemistry, Uppsala University, Uppsala

Professional Experience

1993-1996 Biologist Central Research Laboratory, Medical University of Pécs, Pécs, Hungary
2003 Postdoctoral fellow Dept. of Biochemistry, Uppsala University, Uppsala
2003-2004 Assistant professor Institute of Chemistry, Faculty of Natural Science, University of Pécs, Pécs, Hungary
2004-2007 Researcher Tripep AB, Huddinge
2007 Postdoctoral fellow Uppsala Berzelii Technology Center for Neurodiagnostics, Uppsala University
2007-2012
Guest lecturer
Clinical Protein Science & Imaging, BMC, Lund University, Lund
2012-2015 Research scientist Clinical Protein Science & Imaging, BMC, Lund University, Lund
2015-2016
Research scientist
Dept. of Pharmacology & Toxicology, University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston TX
2016-Project leader
Proteomics Biomedicum Core Facility, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm

Scientific Editorial Activities

Invited reviewer:

  • Electrophoresis
  • Journal of Chromatography A
  • Journal of Biochemical and Biophysical Methods
  • Journal of Separation Science
  • Journal of Proteome Research
  • Expert Opinion on Drug Discovery
  • Journal of Proteomics
  • Proteome Science
  • The Scandinavian Journal of Clinical & Laboratory Investigation
  • Croatica Chemica Acta
  • Current Analytical Chemistry
  • Journal of Histochemistry and Cytochemistry
  • Microarrays
  • Technology in Cancer Research and Treatment
  • Expert Review of Proteomics
  • Molecules
  • Genes
  • Analytical and Bioanalytical Chemistry
  • Journal of Visualized Experiments
  • Trends in Analytical Chemistry
  • Natural Product Research
  • Pharmaceutical Biology
  • The Scandinavian Journal of Clinical & Laboratory Investigation
  • Xenobiotica
  • Journal of Clinical Laboratory Analysis
  • Analytical Chemistry
  • Molecular and Cellular Proteomics
  • Rapid Communications in Mass Spectrometry
  • Oncotarget
  • Nature Scientific Reports
  • Nature Communications Biology
  • International Journal of Molecular Sciences

Associate editor:

  • Journal of Biochemical Biophysical Methods (2004-till the discontinuation of the journal in 2008)

Member of Editorial Board: 

  • Current Analytical Chemistry (2011-2016)
  • International Journal of Proteomics (2011-2018)

Lead guest editor:

  • International Journal of Proteomics, Special Issue on Clinical Peoteomics (2011)