{"id":77,"date":"2021-11-18T16:09:23","date_gmt":"2021-11-18T16:09:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.kzoo.edu\/perdi\/?page_id=77"},"modified":"2025-08-24T19:03:14","modified_gmt":"2025-08-24T19:03:14","slug":"general-2","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kzoo.edu\/perdi\/general-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Personal"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-small-font-size\">P\u00e9ter \u00c9rdi 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. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-small-font-size\">P\u00e9ter is married to Judit Heged\u00fcs. They have two adult children, G\u00e1bor and Zsuzsanna.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"has-extra-small-font-size\"><li>M. Sc. in Chemistry, Science Faculty of the E\u00f6tv\u00f6s L. University, Budapest, Hungary; 1970<\/li><li>M. Sc. in Chemical Cybernetics, Faculty of Chemical Engineering, Technical University of Budapest, Hungary; 1974<\/li><li>Ph. D. in Chemistry, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest, Hungary; 1981<\/li><li>D. Sc. Kinetics of Chemical and Biological Networks, Hungarian Academy of Sciences; 1991<\/li><li>Professor at Technical University, Budapest; Kossuth Lajos University, Debrecen, Hungary; 1995<\/li><li>Sz\u00e9chenyi Professor (1999-2002),&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/hps.elte.hu\/dept\/faculty.html\">Department of History and Philosophy of Science<\/a>, E\u00f6tv\u00f6s University, Budapest<\/li><li>Head:&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/cneuro.rmki.kfki.hu\/\">Department of Biophysics KFKI Research Institute for Particle and Nuclear Physics of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences (1993-2011)<\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"http:\/\/cneuro.rmki.kfki.hu\/\">Budapest Complex Systems and Computational Neuroscience Group Institute for Particle and Nuclear Physics Wigner Research Centre for Physics, (not anymore) Hungarian Academy of Sciences<\/a>\/<\/li><li>Co-Director of&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/hps.elte.hu\/BSCS\/\">BSCS &#8211; Budapest Semester in Cognitive Science (2003-)<\/a><\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"has-extra-small-font-size\"><li>Member of the Advisory Board of the Cognitive Situation Management <\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/lsa.umich.edu\/cscs\/people\/post-docs-lecturers-visiting-scholars\/perdi.html\">Visiting Professor Center for the Study of Complex Systems<\/a>, University of Michigan (2020-2022)<\/li><li>Honorary Chair\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ijcnn.org\/\">The International Joint Conferences on Neural Networks, Budapest 2019<\/a><\/li><li>Editor-in-Chief\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.journals.elsevier.com\/cognitive-systems-research\/editorial-board\/\">Cognitive Systems Research<\/a> (2015-202O)<\/li><li>Vice President for Membership (2017-2019)\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.inns.org\/board-of-governors-and-bylaws\">International Neural Network Society<\/a><\/li><li>Member of the Board of Governors (2012-2020) of the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.inns.org\/\">International Neural Network Society<\/a><\/li><li>Member of the College of Fellows of the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.inns.org\/\">International Neural Network Society<\/a><\/li><li>Member of the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/ieee-cis.org\/edu\/university\/\">IEEE Computational Intelligence Society University Curriculum Subcommittee<\/a><\/li><li>Member of the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/fens.mdc-berlin.de\/pens\/about\/\">FENS-IBRO European Neuroscience Schools Programme<\/a> (2007-2012}<\/li><li>Member of the\u00a0Editorial and Programme Advisory Board of the Springer Complexity publishing program<\/li><li>Councilor at Large:\u00a0The Michigan Chapter of the Society for Neuroscience (2013-2014)<\/li><li>Member of the Scientific Advisory Board of the\u00a0EPJ Nonlinear Biomedical Physics<\/li><li>Member of the\u00a0International Editorial Board of the Neural Network World<\/li><li>Associate Editor of\u00a0BioSystems<\/li><li>Member of the Executive Committee of the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.snn.kun.nl\/enns\/\">European Neural Network (2002-2009) Society<\/a><\/li><li>Member of the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.springer.com\/east\/home\/biomed?SGWID=5-124-70-131585732-detailsPage=journal%7CeditorialBoard\">Editorial Board<\/a>\u00a0of the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.springer.com\/11571\">Cognitive Neurodynamics<\/a><\/li><li>Associate Editor: Frontiers in Computational Neuroscience<\/li><li>Academy Fellow  of the  <a href=\"https:\/\/sites.google.com\/view\/iais-info\/organization?authuser=0\">International Academy of Information Studies Organization<\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.isss.org\/isss-board-of-directors-2025\/\">https:\/\/www.isss.org\/isss-board-of-directors-2025\/<\/a><\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns alignwide\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column\">\n<p>Email: <a href=\"mailto:perdi@kzoo.edu\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">perdi@kzoo.edu<br><\/a>Phone: (269) 337-5720<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column\">\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">1200 Academy Street<br>Kalamazoo, MI, 49006<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-vertically-aligned-center\">\n<p>Office: OLDU208B <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>P\u00e9ter \u00c9rdi 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&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.kzoo.edu\/perdi\/general-2\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Personal<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":81,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kzoo.edu\/perdi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/77"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kzoo.edu\/perdi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kzoo.edu\/perdi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kzoo.edu\/perdi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/81"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kzoo.edu\/perdi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=77"}],"version-history":[{"count":25,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kzoo.edu\/perdi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/77\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":479,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kzoo.edu\/perdi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/77\/revisions\/479"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kzoo.edu\/perdi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=77"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}