President of the Research Council of Hungary
Research Professor, member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences (HAS) and Academia Europaea

was born in 1970 in Budapest.

In 1994, he graduated with honours in physics from Eötvös Loránd University, then pursued his doctoral studies at École Normale Supérieure in Paris, where he was awarded his PhD in 1998. From 2000 to 2003, he was a post-doctoral fellow in Innsbruck with an EU individual Marie Curie fellowship. Since his return home, he has been leading his own research group at the Institute for Solid State Physics and Optics, a member institute of the HUN-REN Wigner Research Centre for Physics. In 2011 he was awarded a grant from the HAS “Lendület” (Momentum) Programme. At his workplace he held the position of head of department, then deputy director until eventually he was appointed director in 2019.

His research field is quantum optics, which he studies both theoretically and experimentally. With his research group, he has achieved outstanding results in the quantum theory of light-matter interactions, laser cooling and trapping of atoms, and the physics of Bose-Einstein condensates. He has made pioneering contributions in many areas of the currently unfolding quantum technology research.

Between 2017 and 2021, he organised and lead the HunQuTech consortium supported under the Quantum Technology Sub-programme of the National Research Excellence Programme and has been the leader of the Quantum Information Science National Laboratory in 2020.

His scientific public activities are diverse: he is a member of several committees, served as Editor of the European Physical Journal D from 2005-2017, and was Divisional Associate Editor of the prestigious journal of the American Physical Society (APS), Physical Review Letters, from 2019-2022. In 2010 he received the APS "Outstanding referee" award.

Peter Domokos was awarded the Széchenyi Prize in 2025, in recognition of his exceptionally valuable scientific career, his work in the field of quantum optics, his achievements in many areas of quantum technology attracting considerable international attention, and his active public activity in both international and domestic scientific life.