Péter Érdi was born in Budapest, Hungary, and was trained as a chemist and what today may be called a computational chemist. His scientific interests spanned from mathematical models of chemical reactions via computational neuroscience to the theory of complex systems and computational social science. He likes to teach interdisciplinary subjects, including cognitive science, nonlinear dynamics, and chaos theory.
Péter is married to Judit Hegedüs. They have two adult children, Gábor and Zsuzsanna.
- M. Sc. in Chemistry, Science Faculty of the Eötvös L. University, Budapest, Hungary; 1970
- M. Sc. in Chemical Cybernetics, Faculty of Chemical Engineering, Technical University of Budapest, Hungary; 1974
- Ph. D. in Chemistry, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest, Hungary; 1981
- D. Sc. Kinetics of Chemical and Biological Networks, Hungarian Academy of Sciences; 1991
- Professor at Technical University, Budapest; Kossuth Lajos University, Debrecen, Hungary; 1995
- Széchenyi Professor (1999-2002), Department of History and Philosophy of Science, Eötvös University, Budapest
- Head: Department of Biophysics KFKI Research Institute for Particle and Nuclear Physics of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences (1993-2011)
- Budapest Complex Systems and Computational Neuroscience Group Institute for Particle and Nuclear Physics Wigner Research Centre for Physics, (not anymore) Hungarian Academy of Sciences/
- Co-Director of BSCS – Budapest Semester in Cognitive Science (2003-)
- Member of the Advisory Board of the Cognitive Situation Management
- Visiting Professor Center for the Study of Complex Systems, University of Michigan (2020-2022)
- Honorary Chair The International Joint Conferences on Neural Networks, Budapest 2019
- Editor-in-Chief Cognitive Systems Research (2015-202O)
- Vice President for Membership (2017-2019) International Neural Network Society
- Member of the Board of Governors (2012-2020) of the International Neural Network Society
- Senior Member of the International Neural Network Society
- Member of the IEEE Computational Intelligence Society University Curriculum Subcommittee
- Member of the FENS-IBRO European Neuroscience Schools Programme (2007-2012}
- Member of the Editorial and Programme Advisory Board of the Springer Complexity publishing program
- Councilor at Large: The Michigan Chapter of the Society for Neuroscience (2013-2014)
- Member of the Scientific Advisory Board of the EPJ Nonlinear Biomedical Physics
- Member of the International Editorial Board of the Neural Network World
- Associate Editor of BioSystems
- Member of the Executive Committee of the European Neural Network (2002-2009) Society
- Member of the Editorial Board of the Cognitive Neurodynamics
- Associate Editor: Frontiers in Computational Neuroscience