Fields of Scholarship
Infectious microorganisms (Mycobacterium, Plasmodium, Staphylococcus)
Genome integrity: the role of dUTPases in preventive DNA repair
Enzyme families catalyzing phosphate transfer by nucleophilic attack on the alpha-phosphorus: dUTPases and cytidylyltransferases
Structural biology (X-ray crystallography and solution methods)
Nucleotide pool imbalance and its physiological consequences
Uracil in DNA: double role for uracil moieties within genomic DNA
Nucleo-cytoplasmic trafficking: cell cycle dependent NLS-adjacent phosphorylation

Honours and Awards
2019, 2020 Best Lecturer Award, BME Budapest University of Technology and Economics, 2019, 2020 (based on secret ballot voting and opinions of BSc and MSc students)
2016 Tankó Béla Award (award of the Hungarian Biochemical Society for outstanding research)
2015 Gold Master Medal of Hungarian Scientific Students' Associations, 2015 (for best supervisor of undergraduate research students)
2012 UNESCO-L’Oréal Award, Hungary, Women in Science
2007 Wellcome Trust Award (instrumental), UK
2005 Howard Hughes International Research Scholar (Howard Hughes Medical Institutes, USA)
2000 Howard Hughes International Research Scholar (Howard Hughes Medical Institutes, USA)
2000 Scientia Europaea Award (Institute de France (French Academy of Sciences) and Aventis)
1998 Bolyai János Research Postdoctoral Fellowship, Hungarian Academy of Sciences
1992 Alexander von Humboldt postdoctoral award, AvH Stiftung, Germany