Vaszkunné Kótyuk Eszter among ELTE's promising researchers

The University's "ELTE Promising Researcher" award recognizes research achievements that are linked to the researcher and that were predominantly carried out at ELTE. Priority will be given to international and/or open-access publications. They do not only focus on completed research but also look for promising topics and directions for the future. Applications are usually evaluated by the Scientific Council and other academic experts invited by the Vice-Rector for Science.

Dr. Eszter Vaszkunné Kótyuk won the Psychology and Educational Science category with her project entitled Psychophysiological Markers of the Reward Deficiency Syndrome, which combines chemical and behavioural addictions. She received her PhD in Psychology from ELTE in 2014 and her habilitation in 2022. As a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Washington, she studied genetic markers of personality traits and cognitive change in ageing. Upon returning home, she was awarded the MTA Postdoctoral Research Fellowship and the Bolyai Fellowship in 2021. As a workgroup leader of the MTA-ELTE Adaptation Research Group, she investigates psychological factors that mobilize effective coping strategies in new environments, involving preschool and university students. Her independent research focuses on the identification of psychological and genetic factors associated with addictions and personality traits related to addictions. Since 2015, she has been involved in the interdisciplinary PGA to test the interrelationships between different addictions and investigate the psychological and genetic factors underlying them. Together with fellow researchers, she developed the psychological measure of the reward deprivation syndrome. So far, 27 publications have been published in scientific journals; she is a presenter at several national and international conferences, and she plays an important role in talent management as a TDK and OTDK topic leader.

Source: elte.hu