Studies

2008 Ph.D degree in legal theory and legal sociology at the Deák Ferenc Doctoral School of Law and Political Sciences, University of Miskolc

1997 - 2002 Eötvös Loránd University Faculty of Law and Political Sciences - lawyer

1994 - 1998 Eötvös Loránd University Faculty of Arts - secondary school teacher of history

1990 - 1994 Eszterházy Károly Teacher Training College - teacher specialised in history and music

1994 - 1995 Journalism School - certified journalist

1995 Hungarian Radio - news editor and radio journalist

Employment

2010 - Eszterházy Károly College, Faculty of Teacher Training and Knowledge Technology
- head of department

2009 - University of Debrecen, Faculty of Law and Political Sciences, Department of Constitutional Law - guest professor

2008 - Corvinus University of Budapest, Post-graduate specialist training programme in equality and minority issues - mentor and guest professor

2007 - Parliamentary Commissioner for National and Ethnic Minority Rights

2002 - 2010 Apor Vilmos Catholic College, Institute of Romology and Applied Social Sciences - head of institute, college professor

1998 - Hungarian Academy of Sciences Ethnic and National Minority Research Institute - Head of research group on Romology

1999 - 2002 Miskolc University, Department of Sociology, professor

1996 - 1998 member of staff of the Roma Civil Rights Foundation

1988 - 1997 teacher at various educational institutions

Scholarships

2000 - 2002 Civic Education Project

1997 - 1999 Soros Foundation

1998 - 2002 European Roma Rights Center

1997 - 1999 Roma Civil Rights Foundation, „Invisible College" for Roma students

Public and professional activities

2007 Member of the Equal Treatment Professional Advisory Board

2002- 2005 Member of the board of trustees of the Autonomy Foundation

1998- 2004 Member of the board of trustees of the Gandhi Public Foundation

Membership of professional organisations
Hungarian Sociological Society - member of the Presidencial Board

Hungarian Academy of Science - member of the Public Body

Hungarian Association of Lawyers

Hungarian Society of Political Sciences

Hungarian Ethnographical Society

Awards
2006 - Award for Minorities

2005 - honoured by the National Gypsy Self-Government for excellence in research

Main areas of research using empirical data survey in the past years
Emergence of cultural rights of the minority communities'

The new paradigms of handling of ethnic data

Roma entrepreneurs in Hungary

Research on local Gypsy minority self-governments

The past and present of Gypsy musicians

The social history of the Hungarian Roma in the 20th century

Equal opportunities of Roma in Hungary. Self-governance, positive discrimination, and the role of education in improving the situation of the Roma - theoretical and practical models

The theoretical models and practice in Hungary of local Gypsy minority self-governments

The cultural autonomy of minorities