After two years of research in the Netherlands, biophysicist Dr. Bence Fehér, an expert in small-angle X-ray and neutron scattering, is returning home. He acquired the fundamentals of his expertise during his PhD internship at Aarhus University in Denmark. He specialises in developing mathematical models that enable the structural determination of biological systems, such as membranes, proteins, and nucleic acids, in solution phase. As a researcher at Eindhoven University of Technology in the Netherlands, his primary research focus was mapping the complex behaviour of milk proteins.
Supported by the Welcome Home Programme, Dr. Fehér leads the HUN-REN–SU Nanobiophysics Research Group, where they investigate the physical properties and potential applications of particles released by our cells, known as extracellular vesicles. His research focuses on understanding breast cancer and Alzheimer's disease at the molecular level.
Bence Fehér holds a PhD in chemical sciences, specialising in colloid science. In addition to his studies in Aarhus, he gained international experience at the Bombannes Summer School in France. He is currently a member of the Hungarian Biophysical Society, the French Biophysical Society, and the Interdepartmental Scientific Committee on Biophysics of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences' Section of Physical Sciences.
Under the HUN-REN Welcome Home and Foreign Researcher Recruitment Programme, first announced in 2023 by the HUN-REN Headquarters, six Hungarian and one foreign top-level researchers will arrive in Hungary to form research groups within the network and realise their outstanding scientific projects as pledged in their winning proposals.