Institute of Physical Education and Sports Science
Dr. Tamás László Berki
Lecturer
Institute of Physical Education and Sports Science
Department of Physical Education and Sports Management
Email: berki.tamas.laszlo@gmail.com
Areas of research: sport motivation, commitment to sports, physical activity
Tamás László Berki was born in 1988 in Nyíregyházán and finished highschool here at the Kossuth Lajos Evangelist Highschool. In his final years there he was awarded the Székely Miklós award for outstanding achievements in sports. In January 2011, he received a PE teacher-coach BSc degree from the Nyíregyháza College. During his college years he spent a semester in Kajaani, Finnland through an Erasmus scholarship, which enabled him to broaden is knowledge of sports sciences. He continues his studies in Budapest at the University of Physical Education as a PE and Physiotherapy teacher. During his university years he took part in two national and one international Conference for the Scientific Students’ Associations. He received his Master’s degree in 2014 after which he started working at the Városmajor Highschool, one of the top institutes of secondary education, as a PE teacher, accumulating valuable teaching experience. In 2015, he went to Finnland for training via Erasmus+ scholarship. He enrolled in the Doctoral School of Education at the University of Szeged in 2016 with the help of a state scholarship and researched commitment to sports, under Bettina Pikó. He wrote his dissertation on this very same subject. During his years of reasearch he took part in three international conferences and won two Campus Mundi scholarships. He spent four summers in the United States teaching fencing, swimming, and tennis to children. This wasn’t just good professional practice but a successful way to improve his language skills. At present he is a teacher at the Institute of Physicaly Educatuion and Sports Science.
Dr. Ferenc Bóka
Senior Lecturer
Institute of Physical Education and Sports Science
Department of Physical Education and Sports Promotion
E-mail: boka@jgypk.szte.hu
Phone: +36703607804
Dr. Bóka’s research fields include the effect of regular exercise on health status and health behaviour.
His teaching activities: football, training theory, strength development, swimming, recreational and leisure sports.
In 1996, he graduated as a teacher at the Juhász Gyula Teacher Training College, in Szeged (majoring in Physical Education and Recreation), and, in 2002, he received a university degree in Physical Education from the Faculty of Science of the University of Pécs (Hungary). In 1995, he qualified as a Sports Coach in athletics and football. In 2007, he earned a UEFA ‘A’ International Coaching degree in football. In 2010, he graduated from the Preventive Medicine Doctoral Program of the Interdisciplinary Sciences Doctoral School at the Faculty of Medicine, University of Szeged. The title of his Ph.D. dissertation was: The Effect of Regular Exercise on Health Status and Health Behaviour.
He played football for 24 years, and was invited to several, multi-age national teams. He is a Hungarian youth champion, a cup-winner, and an NB-II champion [2nd class of the Hungarian National Championship] at the adult level. He played water-polo in OB II [2nd class of the Hungarian National Championship] in the SZVPSE [Szeged City Water-polo Sports Association] adult men’s team.
Between 1995 and 1998, he worked as a part-time lecturer at the Szeged College of Food Industry. Between 1998 and 2007, he taught at the Weöres Sándor Primary School, in Szeged. Since 2008, he has been working at the Institute of Physical Education and Sports Science of the University of Szeged, currently as a Senior Lecturer.
He coached the Contitech Szeged Diapolo Men's Water-polo Team as a fitness coach; the team won the 3rd place in the Euroleague and in the Hungarian Cup. He worked as a fitness coach with Attila Vajda, Márton Joób and Gábor Horváth canoe Olympians, with whom he won European and World Championships. In football, he has coached youth and adult national team players. He works at the Szeged Boxing Club as a fitness coach, where he coaches Máté Kiss, who has became a professional Hungarian light-heavyweight champion and, in 2018, he became a light-heavyweight intercontinental champion.
He is a member of the Hungarian Sports Science Association, the Hungarian Coaches Association, the Hungarian Sports Medicine Association, and the Central European Recreation Association.
Andrea Dobó
PE teacher
Institute of Physical Education and Sports Science
Department of Recreation and Sports Health
E-mail: dobo.andrea@szte.hu
She received her first degree from the Univesity of Szeged Facult of Education, then Juhász Gyula Teacher Training College, as a PE and Recreation teacher, followed by a Physiotherapy teacher degree from the Semmelweis University Faculty of Physical Education and Sports Science. She finished her handball coach training in 2014 and five years later was certified as a middle grade handball coach. She has been teaching at the University of Szeged Institute of Physical Education and Sports Science since 2009. Taught courses include handball, swimming, animation, school- and folk games, bat-and-ball games, and physiotherapy. As a teacher she regularly prepares both men’s and women’s handball teams for the Hungarian College and University National League (MEFOB). Her students always perform well at the Sport Majors’ Meetup(SHS). During her more than 20 year long handball career she played at NB/I level for three years. Besides fulfilling her obligations to the university she has been working as a handball coach for six years and she is actively working on training the new generation of players.
Mihály Domokos
Master lecturer
Institute of Physical Education and Sport Science
Department of Physical Education and Sport Management
Telephone: +36-30/5707877
E-mail: domokos.mihaly@szte.hu
Received his primary school PE teacher degree from the Juhász Gyula Teacher Training College (which became the Juhász Gyula Faculty of Education) in 1982. Received a highschool PE teacher and a basketball coach degree from the University of Physical Education in 1988 and 1996 respectively. He became a college lecture in 1989 and a master teacher in 2006. At present he is working as a master lecturer. He teaches for the coach, the unified physical educator, and the sports and recreation majors. Besides methodology, his courses include theory and practice of basketball, sportpedagogy, folk dance and organization of water and ski camps. His areas of research are: the study of external effects influencing the effectiveness of primary school PE teaching, the possibility of planned and quality training and nurturing for youths at basketball, and practice of training system for sports schools. He has over 30 years of leadership and scientific experience. He is a member of the Hungarian Society of Sport Science, the Hungarian Society of Coaches and the National Society of Hungarian Physical Education Teachers. He is also a member of the MTA SZAB Sport Science Work Committee, and the Sport Professional, Skill Developmental, Organizational, and Copetitive Sport Committe of the MEFS. He is the presidents of the Szeged Basketball Club since its formation.
Zita Petrovszki Dr. Hajdúné
Assistant Professor
Institute of Physical Education and Sports Science
Department of Physical Education and Sport Management
Telefon: +3662546257
E-mail: petrovszki@jgypk.szte.hu
Zita Petrovszki Dr. Hajdúné graduated from the Juhász Gyula Teacher Training College, in 1998, as a Teacher of Biology and Physical Education. She also qualified as an intermediate-level sports coach in aerobics and swimming. She obtained her M.A. as a Teacher of Physical Education at the University of Pécs in 2000. She obtained her Ph.D. summa cum laude in the field of Medicine from the University of Szeged in 2015. The title of her dissertation: “Development and Characterization of Chronic Animal Models of Schizophrenia”. Her research is connected to the fields of physiology and sports science: diagnostic tests of behavioural pharmacology and sport performance. She publishes in journals, conference proceedings and digital learning materials. She is a member of the Hungarian Sport Scientific Association, a member of the Sports Science Work Committee of the Medical Committee of the Szeged Branch of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, and an alternate member of the Committee of Students’ Judicial Remedy of the University of Szeged. From 2005 till 2013, she was a lab assistant and then a Ph.D. student at the Department of Physiology of the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Szeged. She has been working at the Faculty since 2013 and, currently, she is the Head of the Department of Physical Education and Sport Management at the Institute of Physical Education and Sports Science.
Andrea Hézsőné Böröcz
P.E. Teacher
Institute of Physical Education and Sports Science
Department of Physical Education and Sports Promotion
Phone: +3662546098.
Phone: +3662544278
E-mail: borocza@jgypk.szte.hu
Dr. Böröcz was born in 1962, in Marcali (Hungary). She finished primary school in her home town and continued her secondary-school studies at the Karikas Frigyes Grammar School in Fonyód (Hungary), in a German specialization class. In 1980, after taking the exams for GCSE, she was admitted to the Hungarian College of Physical Education (Budapest). In recognition of her excellent academic performance, she received a “Republic Scholarship” for the last 2 years. She graduated as a High School Teacher and Physiotherapist in 1984.
Her first job was in Budapest, at the Gyöngyösi Housing Estate Primary School, where she worked for one year, (1984-1985). In 1985, she was promoted to the Department of Physical Education of Juhász Gyula Teacher Training College (Szeged), through a competition. In order to improve her work, she completed the aerobics coaching course (TFTI, 1995) [College of Physical Education, Institute of Further Training, Budapest]. Then she had the opportunity to expand her knowledge and become an Instructor of the Posture Improvement Prevention Program. (MTETI 1997) [University of Physical Education, Institute of Further Training, Budapest]. She also obtained the qualification of “Nordic Walking Instructor”. (TFTI 2009).
Education: High-school Teacher of Physical Education and Physiotherapy (TF, 1984) [College of Physical Education, Budapest] Aerobics Coach
Subjects taught: gymnastics, physiotherapy, rope-jumping, aerobics, movement programs, theory and practice of fitness trends.
Research fields: preventive medical effects of exercise, posture improvement prevention programs, fitness trends, methodology of aerobic education.
Ágnes Hocza
P.E. Teacher
Institute of Physical Education and Sports Science
Department of Physical Education and Sports Promotion
Phone: +3662546290
E-mail: hocza@jgypk.szte.hu
In 1998, she graduated from the Hungarian University of Physical Education (Budapest) with a High-school Teacher's degree. During her university years, as a member of her university's NB-I [1st class of the Hungarian National Championship] handball team, she won the Hungarian University and College Handball Championship on several occasions. In 1998, she became a lecturer at the Juhász Gyula Faculty of Education, Department of Physical Education. She teaches courses in the following study programs: coach, physical education-coaching, physical education undivided teacher training, sports and recreation, teacher and kindergarten teacher.
She teaches the following courses: handball, school and folk games, sports games, rope jumping, gymnastics, and tennis.
Since 1998, she has been the coach of the JGYTF DSE Women's Handball Team. From 1998 to 2001, her team was in NB Class II [2nd class of the Hungarian National Championship].
In 2004, she graduated as a Handball Coach. In addition, she has an aerobics coaching exam and a tennis instructor’s qualification. She is currently the coach of the women's handball team of the University of Szeged Recreational Sport Club. Since 2010, she has also been involved in coaching young handball players. During her years at the Department of Physical Education and Sports Promotion, she and her colleagues have been involved in organizing and conducting several national competitions.
Areas of research: selection and success in sports, investigating the forms and possibilities of quick start in the field of handball, and studying the possibilities of developing coordination skills in the field of school physical education.
She is a member of the Hungarian Sports Science Society and the National Association of Hungarian Physical Education Teachers.
Dr. Zoltán Karancsi
Department Head, Assistant Professor
Institute of Applied Sciences
Department of Geography and Ecotourism
Phone: +3662546078
E-mail: karancsi@jgypk.szte.hu
Zoltán Karancsi is an Assistant Professor and Department Head of the Department of Geography and Ecotourism, Institute of Applied Sciences , Juhász Gyula Faculty of Education of the University of Szeged.
He graduated from Juhász Gyula Teacher Training College as a Primary School Geography and Art Teacher, and from the Faculty of Science of József Attila University as a Teacher of Geography and Environmentalist. He has published more than 110 academic papers and has given more than 80 conference talks in Hungarian and international conferences, some of these as an invited speaker.
His initial research interests included anthropogenic geomorphology and landscape ecology (Karancsi Z. 2002. Természetes és antropogén eredetű környezetváltozás a Medves-térség területén, Ph.D. Dissertation. [Natural and Anthropogenic Environmental Changes in the Medves region]).
In addition to these fields, he has investigated the theoretical and practical parameters of tourism and ecotourism.
Recently, his research focuses on geotourism and environmental and landscape aesthetics (Karancsi Z., Hornyák S., Korom A., Szalma E., Oláh F., Horváth G. 2017. Környezetesztétikai értékelés egy nagyvárosban. VII. Tájökológiai Konferencia Kiadv., SZTE TTIK Term. Földrajzi és Geoinformatikai Tansz. Szeged. [Environmental Aesthetic Assessment in a City. Proceedings of the VII. Landscape Ecology Conference. Szeged: University of Szeged, Faculty of Science and Informatics, Department of Physical Geography and Geoinformatics]).
He founded the Landscape and Environmental Aesthetics Research Group along with his department colleagues, researchers from other universities (Eötvos University, Budapest), and Ph.D. students.
In addition, he is also a member of the Hydroecology Research Group of the Department of Geography and Ecotourism.
He has been a member of the Hungarian Geographical Society since 1990 and, since 2002, he has been a member of the Public Body of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences. He is a founding board member of the Hungarian Section of the international ProGeo Association (2008-), which also functions as a thematic section of the Hungarian Geological Society.
Since 2014, he has been Chair of the Geosciences Working Committee of the Szeged Regional Committee of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences.
He is a member of the Editorial Board of the methodology journal Geometodika.
He is a supervisor at the Geosciences Doctoral School of the University of Szeged.
Zoltán Katona
College Associate Professor
Institute of Physical Education and Sport Science
E-mail: katona.zoltan@szte.hu
He was born in 1972 in Hódmezővásárhely and attended highchool there. He attended college at the Juhász Gyula Teacher Training College, the predecessor of the current Faculty of Education, and later enrolled in the József Attila University which became the University of Szeged during his studies. He was awarded his summa cum laude PhD degree in 2016 by the Doctoral School of Earth Science of the University of Pécs. He wrote his thesis on Hungarain grape growing areas and the Geoinformatic evaluation of their Space-system change. His areas of study are sport and recreation, geopgraphy, recreation theory, geo ecopotential space evaluation and terroir geography, satelite remote sensor based space analysis and evaluation. Author of over 50 publication, editor and editing committee member for the publications of the László Ferenc Sport Sience Research Workshop between 2019 and 2022. An external college lecturer at the Juhász Gyula Faculty of Education Department of Geography between 2005 and 2007. A teacher at the Juhász Gyula Faculty of Education Institue of Physical Education and Sport Science since 2018. Member of the Internal Affairs Committee of the Juhász Gyula Faculty of Education since 2020. College Associate Professor at the Juhász Gyula Faculty of Education Institute of Phyiscal Education and Spot Science since 2022.
Zsolt Zoltán Katona
Assistant Lecturer
Institute of Physical Education and Sports Science
Department of Physical Education and Sports Promotion
Phone: +3662546291
Phone: +36304633203
E-mail: kzs@jgypk.szte.hu
In 1998, he graduated from the Juhász Gyula Techer Training College, majoring in Physical Education and Recreation. In 2002, he obtained a degree in Physiotherapy from the Faculty of Sports Science of Semmelweis University (Budapest). In 1998, he graduated as a Swimming Sports Coach (JGYTF) and in 1999, a Human Resources Management Expert at the Postgraduate Faculty of the Budapest University of Economics.
After completing his athletic career, he was active in swimming education and swimming training at several associations in Budapest, Békéscsaba and Makó. Since 2001, he has been teaching at the University of Szeged Juhász Gyula Faculty of Education. Being the Erasmus coordinator of the Institute of Physical Education and Sports Science, he makes excellent use of his foreign relations.
As a sports organizer, he was the organizer of several domestic, world-class, university and swimming sports competitions.
Memberships: a Member of the Board of the Hungarian University and College Sports Association (2007-2011); the Specialist Inspector of the Southern Great Plain region of the Hungarian Swimming Association (2016-2017). In January 2017, he became the President of the Szeged Recreational Sports Club, which also organizes and supports university sports in Szeged.
He is a Ph.D. student at the Doctoral School of Education of the University of Szeged, under the supervision of Dr. habil. Klára Tarkó, College Professor.
His fields of research include the development of the willingness to provide accident-assistance, and the possibility of teaching the basic steps of first-aid and resuscitation in public education and physical education.
Subjects taught: swimming, physical education and sport history, accident-prevention and first-aid.
Dr. Andor Molnár
College Associate Professor
Physical Education and Sport Science
Department of Recreation and Sports Health
Phone: +3662546254
E-mail: andor.molnar@jgypk.szte.hu
Andor Molnár graduated as a Teacher of Biology and Environmental Science from the Faculty of Sciences at the University of Szeged in 2002. He received his summa cum laude Ph.D. in Biological Sciences in 2007 (University of Szeged). His research interests belong to the fields of endocrinology and sport science: the regulation of salt, water and energy balance; body image, eating, bone metabolism and menstrual disorders.
In addition to publishing both Hungarian and English language papers in journals and edited volumes, he has edited several books on sport science. He has been on the editorial board of Arena – Journal of Physical Activities (ISSN: 2285--830X) since 2015. He is a regular presenter at international and Hungarian sport science congresses.
He is a member of the European College of Sport Science and the Hungarian Sport Science Society. He is a regular jury member and reviewer on the Physical Education and Sport Science Section of the National Scientific Students’ Associations Conference (OTDK). He has been the supervisor of several OTDK papers winning conference awards. He was the Executive Secretary of the Physical Education and Sport Science section of the 31st National Scientific Students’ Associations Conference (2013). He was the President of the SZTE JGYPK Council of Student Research Societies (2015–2017) and a member of the Committee on Education and Accreditation (2012–2017).
He was awarded the János Bolyai Research Scholarship of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences (2009–2012), the Young Researcher Special Award of the European Neuropeptide Club and the Summer Neuropeptide Conference (2009) and the Special Youth Prize of the Hungarian Society for Endocrinology and Metabolism.
He has been working at the faculty as a full-time member since 2006. At present, he is an Associate Professor at the Recreation and Sport Health Department of the Physical Education and Sport Science Institute at the Juhász Gyula Faculty of Education. Apart from managing the MTMT entries of the institute [Hungarian Scientific Bibliography], he is also responsible for running the institute website and liaising with the members of the Central European Sport Science Cluster.
Ágnes Virág Nagy
Assistant Professor
Institute of Physical Education and Sport Science
Department of Physical Education and Sport Management
Telephone: +36 62 546-250
E-mail: nagy.agnes.virag@szte.hu
Ágnes Virág Nagy has been working as an assistant professor At the University of Szeged Institute of Physical Education and Sport Science since 2019. Besides Methodology she teaches adapted physical education and a few practical classes. She underwent college studies at the Juhász Gyula Teacher Training College majoring in Physical Education-Recreation. After that she received a degreee in Adapted Physical Education Teaching from the University of Physical Education in 1999, and a Highschool PE Teacher degree from the University of Pécs in 2001. She has worked in education as a PE and adapted PE teacher for over 20 years. She has been practicing movement development since 2012. She helps kindergarten and underage children with underdeveloped nervous systems or learning difficulties using foundational therapy and INPP method. Since 2002 she is also reservetraining for foil fencing and basketball. She is doing her PhD studies at the University of Pécs Faculty of Sciences Doctoral School of Biology and Sports Biology, where she took a sucessful complex exam in 2021. Her areas of research are the halting of movement developlent and its effect on movement learning and teaching, cognitive functions, demeanor, behavior, and stance as well as the effect of persistent primitive reflexes on personality development.
Kornélia Orbán
Assistant Lecturer
Physical Education and Sports Sciences
Department of Recreation and Sports Health
Phone: +3662546293
E-mail: orbank@jgypk.szte.hu
Kornália Orbán graduated from the Juhász Gyula Teacher Education Faculty of the University of Szeged (SZTE JGYPK), Hungary, majoring in physical education and recreation and sports communication in 2010, and she obtained a master’s degree in Physical Education, with high distinction, in 2011. During her studies, she also completed a sports coach specialisation in swimming (2007) and one in handball (2008). She studied at Goethe-Universität, Frankfurt, in Germany for one semester through an Erasmus grant (2009). She received first prize for her paper presented in the Physical Education and Sports Sciences Session of the 30th National Scientific Students' Associations Conference, in 2011, and she was granted the “Excellent Student of the Faculty” award, in 2011.
She started her career as an assistant research fellow at the Department of Physiology, Morphology and Neuroscience at the Faculty of Sciences, University of Szeged, in 2010. She commenced her Ph.D. studies in 2011, in the Interdisciplinary Doctoral School of the Faculty of Medicine, University of Szeged. Her research focuses on the preventive medicinal effects of regular physical exercise in relation to several areas of sports sciences, such as human biological, psychosomatic, sociological and motivational aspects of sports and motor skills. In 2013, she was awarded the “Apáczai Csere János Grant for Ph.D. Students” within the National Excellence Programme.
She started teaching at the Institute of Physical Education and Sports Sciences of the Juhász Gyula Faculty of Education of the University of Szeged in 2011, as a Ph.D. student. Currently, she is an assistant lecturer at the Department of Recreation and Sports Health of the institute.
Péter Szablics
Assistant Lecturer
Institute of Physical Education and Sports Science
Department of Recreation and Sports Health
E-mail: szablics@jgypk.u-szeged.hu
Teaching:
Rolling Sports, Adapted Physical Education, Massage, Technical and Extreme Sports, Basketball
Field of research:
3-dimensional movement analysis, the effect of training on the change of the dynamic characteristics of the centre of gravity
Certificates and qualifications:
Physical Education Teacher (Juhász Gyula Faculty of Education, University of Szeged, 2013)
Adapted Physical Education Teacher (Faculty of Physical Education and Sports Science, Semmelweis University, 2009)
Massage Therapist (MIOK Szeged Vocational School, 2008)
Animator (Institute of Physical Education and Sports Science, Juhász Gyula Faculty of Education, University of Szeged, 2007)
Body Building – Fitness Sport Coach (RSC, 2007)
Basketball Sport Coach (Juhász Gyula Teacher Training College Faculty, University of Szeged, 2006)
Swimming Sport Instructor (RSC - Recreational Sports Club, 2006)
Athletics Sport Instructor (RSC, 2006)
Basketball Referee (Csongrád County Basketball Association, 2004)
Physical Education Teacher and Recreation Organiser (Juhász Gyula Faculty of Education, University of Szeged, 2007)
Current Positions:
Institute of Physical Education and Sports Science, Juhász Gyula Faculty of Education, University of Szeged – Assistant Lecturer
Szegedi Universitas RSC – Basketball Coach
Interdisciplinary Doctoral School, Faculty of General Medicine, University of Szeged – Ph.D. Student
PRE-HAB Sport Bt. – Company Manager
Dr. Eszter Szabó
College Associate Professor
Institute of Physical Education and Sport Science
Department of Recreation and Training Science
Telephone: +3662544752
E-mail: szabo.eszter@szte.hu
Area of study: Child and youth bodily development and motoric performance
She graduated in 2008 from Semmelweis University Faculty of Physical Education and Sport Science majoring as a PE - health teacher and athletics sports coach. In 2014 she received her degree from the Eötvös Loránd University Bárczi Gusztáv Faculty of Special Needs Education majoring in Pedagogy of Special Needs Education Impaired People. She also has an OKJ (National Qualification Registry) certificate as an athletics, swimming, sicronized swimming coach and as aerobic and baby swimming teacher. She studied at the University of Physical Education Doctoral School of Sport in the educational and social science program and was awarded her PhD in 2016. her dissertation was titled: Body development and motoric performance of able minded and learning impaired primary school children. She had publications released in journals and conference volumes in English and Hungarian. In the Fall semester of the 2005/2007 schooly year she attended the University of Jyväskylä Faculty of Sport and Health Sciences via an Erasmus Scholarship. In 2008 she attended an intensive program in Tilburg, the Netherlands at the Fontys School of PE and Sports. She is a member of the European College of Sport Sciences, the Hungarian Society of Sport Sciences, the Society of Hungarian Coaches, The Society of Movementbiology, the Hungarian Academy of Sciences Szeged Accreditation Committee, Medical Special Committee, and Sport Science Work Committee, as well as the Association of Kindergarten and School Teacher Training. Between 2011 and 2019 she worked as an external lecturer at the Univesity of Physical Education. Between 2012 and 2020 she worked at the Physical Education and Sport Center of the University of Kaposvár as an assistant lecturer and later lecturer, and office head. She was also responsible for the adapted physical education training.
Since the September of 2020. She is a lecturer at the University of Szeged Juhász Gyula Faculty of Education Institute of Physical Education and Sport Science Department of Recreation and Sport Health and since the August of 2021. A College Associate Professor at the Department of Recreation and Sport Science.
Dr. András Szász
College Associate Professor
Institute of Physical Education and Sports Science
Department of Recreation and Sports Health
Phone: +3662546254
E-mail: szasz@jgypk.szte.hu
Dr. Szász graduated from the József Attila University (now University of Szeged, Hungary) as a Molecular Biologist in 1997. In 2000, he earned a Secondary School Teacher’s Degree in Biology, also at József Attila University. In 1997, he was admitted to the Theoretical Medical Sciences Doctoral School of Albert Szent-Györgyi Medical University, where he studied the epileptic seizure activity of the cerebral cortex of growing and adult rats with electrophysiological and pharmacological methods in in vivo circumstances at the Department of Comparative Physiology of the Faculty of Sciences at József Attila University. During his doctoral studies, he spent altogether eight months at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel, in Belgium, with research grants.
In 2001, he was appointed to the Department of Biology at Juhász Gyula Teacher Training College Faculty (now Juhász Gyula Faculty of Education) at the University of Szeged, first as an Assistant Lecturer, then, from 2004, as Senior Lecturer, where, in addition to teaching, he studied in vivo the processes of the nervous system caused by peripheral painful stimuli. Since 2007, he has been working at the Institute of Physical Education and Sports Science of Juhász Gyula Faculty of Education. From 2008 to 2012, he did research work on the topic of innate immunity at the Institute of Plant Genome, Human Biotechnology and Bioenergy of Bay Zoltán Public Research Foundation. In addition, from 2010 to 2017, he was an External Teacher of Szinergia Secondary Grammar School and Secondary Technical School. From 2012 to 2014, he was a Scientific Research Fellow of the Szeged Biological Research Center of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences.
From 2015 to 2017, he developed more than 100 tests for the diagnostics of genetic diseases as Laboratory Manager of SeqOmics Biotechnológia Kft. Állategészségügyi Laboratórium [SeqOmics Biotechnology Ltd, Animal Health Laboratory]. Since 2017, he has been an External Instructor at the Health Science and Social Education Faculty of the Universtiy of Szeged. He earned his Ph.D. in the field of biological sciences with a summa cum laude result. The title of his doctoral dissertation is A veleszületett immunitás szabályozásának vizsgálata in vitro és in vivo rendszerekben [The Regulation of Innate Immunity in In Vitro and In Vivo Systems].
Currently, he is a full-time College Associate Professor at the Department of Recreation and Sports Health of the Institute of Physical Education and Sports Science. In addition, he is a member of the Students’ Legal Redress Committee of the faculty, as well as of the Quality Assurance Committee; he is responsible for the Scientific Students’ Associations Conferences of the Institute of Physical Education and Sports Science.
Dr. Margaréta Tokodi
Manager
Sports Centre of the University of Szeged
Executive Expert, Instructor
Center for Vocational Training, Distance Learning and Further Education
Phone: +36306392112; +3662544278
Dr. Tokodi is Executive Expert and Instructor in the Center for Vocational Training, Distance Learning and Further Education at the Juhász Gyula Faculty of Education of the University of Szeged, Hungary, and she is the Manager of the Sports Centre of the University of Szeged. At Gál Ferenc College, she teaches Physical Education, and she is Head of the Institute of Health Education and Sports.
She studied in the Preventive Medicine Subprogramme of the Interdisciplinary Medical Sciences Doctoral School at the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Szeged, and she earned her Ph.D. Degree in October 2018. She is a Researcher at the Oto-Rhino-Laryngology and Head-Neck Clinic; she studies how the cognitive, fitness and respiratory functions of top athletes allergic to ragweed change as a consequence of the symptoms caused by ragweed. The number of her publications is 5, and she has given 8 talks at national and international conferences.
Initially, she worked as a Coach and Sports Organiser for Fürdővizek Szeged Kft [Bathwaters Szeged Ltd.], and then she was the Club Manager of Squash Club Ltd. for 6 years. She also taught in two renowned secondary grammar schools, Radnóti Miklós Experimental Secondary Grammar School, Szeged, and the Secondary Grammar School and Primary School of the University of Szeged. She also earned a degree in Hungarian and Cultural Organising and Media Studies at the Juhász Gyula Faculty of Education of the University of Szeged; thus, currently she teaches courses related to communication and sociology in the programmes of Centre for Vocational Training, Distance Learning and Further Education at the Juhász Gyula Faculty of Education.
Beáta Vári
Manager consultant
University of Szeged, Juhász Gyula Faculty of Education, Institute of Physical Education and Sport Science
E-mail: vari.beata@szte.hu
PO Box: 6725, Szeged, Hattyas sor 10.
Study area: Physical activity of people doing sitting jobs at different ages.
Publications in the MTMT database: https://m2.mtmt.hu/api/author/10026970
She attended high school in Hódmezővásárhelyen, and later studied at the Juhász Gyula Teacher Training College, and later the Faculty of Sciences at the University of Pécs. In 2014 she enrolled in the Doctoral School of the Faculty of Health Sciences of the University of Pécs.
Qualifications: Physical education and recreation teacher, physical education teacher, athletics and swimming sport trainer, ski instructor.
Since 2011 a member of the Hungarian Sport Science Association and since 2019 the Association of Hungarian School Ski Instructors.
Professional practice: National team competitor (athletics from 1993 to 2005), primary school PE teacher (Liszt Ferenc Musical Primary School, Hódmezővásárhely 2001-2007), assistant teacher (SZTE, JGYPK, TSTI from 2009), athletics coach (Hódmezővásárhely, Hódiák SE, from 2001), swimming coach (Hódúszó SE, Hódmezővásárhely, 2002-2007) head coach (Hódmezővásárhelyi Futóklub, from 2008), swimming instructor (Hódúszó SE, Hódmezővásárhely, from 2002), association president (HÓDIÁK SE, 2015-2017), SZTE head coach of the university athletics team (2009 - ), ski instructor (2010-), 1st class judge for swimming, diving and fin swimming, international judge for para swimming, 2nd class judge for athletics.
Awards: SZTE Outstanding Pedagogist candidate Award in 2001, 1994-2001 3 times Republic Good student – Good athlete award 8 times Hódmezővásárhely Good student – Good athlete award (1993-2001), 3 times SZTE Good student – Good athlete award, 1999-2001 Republic Scholarship.
Since 2009 intern and assistant teacher at the JGYPK Institute of Physical Education and Sport Science.
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