Eörs Szathmáry receives prestigious international awards

Research Professor Eörs Szathmáry, founder of the Institute of Evolution at the HUN-REN Centre for Ecological Research in Hungary, has been elected a Fellow of the Royal Flemish Academy of Belgium for Science and Arts (KVAB), ecolres.hu reported.

Research Professor Eörs Szathmáry was also awarded the Lifetime Achievement Award of the Evolutionary Linguistic Association (ELA). The aim of ELA is to support research in the field of evolutionary linguistics. The ELA Lifetime Achievement Award is given to researchers who have made outstanding contributions to the field.

Eörs Szathmáry is a member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Research Professor at the HUN-REN Centre for Ecological Research in Hungary, Professor at the Institute of Biology, Faculty of Natural Sciences, ELTE and Director of the Center for the Conceptual Foundations of Science, Parmenides Foundation (Germany).

We recently spoke to Eörs Szathmáry, research professor, about the founding of the Institute for Evolution, now in its fifth year, which you can read here.