Dr. András Zempléni, honorary doctor of the Faculty of Humanities, University of Pécs since 11 March 2010.
Dr. András Zempléni is a cultural anthropologist (ethnologist), research professor of the National Scientific Research Council in Paris, professor of the Université Paris X - Nanterre, Department of Ethnology and Comparative Sociology, and one of most successful Hungarian social scientists living abroad. His professional career is connected to France and French science, where he emigrated at the age of sixteen after the fall of the 1956's revolution.
He is a specialist of African cultures and societies. He has been doing fieldwork in West Africa for nearly 50 years now. Beside his research in Africa, Dr. Zempléni has been present in Hungarian scientific life too since the downfall of the Communist regime. In accordance with his previous work he primarily studies the political re-burials after the fall of the Communist regime. As a scholar, András Zempléni has fulfilled the role of a bridge for four decades between French and Hungarian science. He has been a guest professor at the Department of Ethnography and Cultural Anthropology at the University of Pécs's Faculty of Humanities since the beginning of the Department's EU-6 Marie-Curie Fellowship for the Transfer of Knowledge project. He actively takes part in the life of the Department and plays a decisive role in the improvement of the Department's international relations and the enhancement of its scientific reputation.