Member of the Research Council of Hungary
Head of the Department of Applied and Numerical Mathematics at the University of Szeged, Scientific Director of the National Laboratory for Health Security

Dr. Gergely Röst is a mathematician at the Bolyai Institute of the University of Szeged. His main research areas include nonlinear dynamics, differential equations, mathematical epidemiology, and mathematical biology.

Born in Nagykanizsa in 1977, he completed his secondary education in his hometown. He graduated with honours in mathematics from the University of Szeged, where he also earned his PhD with a Presidential Golden Ring for his reseaech on nonlinear functional differential equations, which constitute the mathematical description of time delayed feedbacks. He spent a year at Justus Liebig University in Giessen and, after completing his studies in Szeged, moved to Toronto as a postdoctoral researcher at the invitation of the world-renowned Professor Jianhong Wu.
During this time, he began working on the mathematical modelling of infectious diseases as part of a large interdisciplinary network in Canada. He has also worked at Arizona State University and the University of Oxford but has always returned to Szeged. In 2010, with the support of the European Research Council, he established the first mathematical epidemiology research group in the Central and Eastern European region at the University of Szeged, which continues to operate successfully. The results of this long-term work came to fruition in 2020 when he became involved at the highest level in efforts to combat the COVID-19 pandemic. He is the Scientific Director of the National Laboratory for Health Security, established in 2022.

His main accolades include: Promotio sub auspiciis, Grünwald Géza Memorial Medal, Alexits Award, Gács András Award, fellow of the Young Academy of Europe, Pro Urbe Award (Szeged), and the QP Academic Excellence Award for innovative research.