Árpád Farkas PhD is a senior research fellow and the Head of Environmental Physics Department at Centre for Energy Research of Budapest, Hungary. He previously had research positions at University of Salzburg (Austria) and Brno University of Technology (Czech Republic). He completed his PhD at ELTE University on the biological effects of the inhaled radioactive aerosols. Arpad has two decades of experience in modelling airway deposition and health effects of different types of inhaled particles. His current research interests focus around characterization of medical aerosols and simulation of airway transport and deposition of aerosol drugs. He is the author of more than 200 scholarly publications. He was awarded the Junior Prize of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences (2005), Fermi Young Scientist Prize (2008) and Menarini Prize (2015).
