"Támas Vicsek" obtained his M. Sc. degree at Moscow State University in 1972. From 1972 to 1990 (with a few intermissions) he had various positions in the Research Institute for Technical Physics of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences. Meanwhile he obtained a PhD degree (University of Debrecen, 1975) and two further degrees existing in Hungary (candidate -- 1983 and doctor -- 1988 of physical sciences). During the same years he also had visiting scholar positions in a number of USA and Germany based institutes/universities, including Emory University, Atlanta (1983-85, 1989), Yale University, New Haven (1988), Boston University (several times for shorter periods), Supercomputing Center, KFA, Julich (1990). In 1991 he became a professor of physics at Eotvos University where he first served as a head of the Atomic Physics Department and in 1998 became the head of the newly established Department of Biological Phyics.

His research interests range over a wide selection of topics almost all related to statistical physics. After studying percolation theory, in 1982 he started to work on fractal growth and in 1989 he published the first monograph devoted to this topic. The various applications he considered include pattern formation in geophysics, viscous flows, sedimentation processes, and many others. More recently he has been involved in doing research on biologically inspired problems such as bacterial colony growth, flocking, molecular motors, etc. His most recent publication is on the collective motion of people during escape panic.

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