Studied geophysics, philosophy, Hungarian philology and classics at ELTE, Budapest. Associate professor at CEU from August 2007. Visiting graduate student at St Edmund Hall, Oxford, 1986-7; Osteuropastipendiat in Fribourg (Switzerland) in 1990-1, and British Council Research Fellow at Pembroke College, Oxford (1993). Regular positions at the Janus Pannonius University at Pecs, Hungary 1983-1991. Associate professor at ELTE, 1991-2007. Fulbright Teaching Fellow, Rutgers University, Center for Russian and East-Central European Studies, AY 2002/3. Guest lecturer at the Department of Philosophy, University of Liverpool, Fall semester, 1996/7 and winter semester, 2001/2. The former head of the Medieval Studies Department (2007-10). Guest lecturer at ELTE since 2007. Keeley Visiting Fellow at Wadham College, Oxford AY 2013/4. Isaiah Berlin visiting fellow Corpus Christi College, Oxford, Hilary term 2018. Titulary professor, ELTE, 2020.