Congratulations! One more Hungarian who got a Nobel prize after left Hungary! There are 13 Hungarian laureates, only one of them was working in Hungary while winning the prize.
There is a typo in the article: There is no Sagan’s University in Hungary even though it sounds good. Her alma mater was the University of Szeged, I think they wanted to write that.
Is she maybe lecturing in Hungary? Enabling new generations to do great on the international stage by lecturing would imo even be better than just paying taxes in Hungary.
She received her PhD from Szeged’s University in 1982 and performed postdoctoral research at the Hungarian Academy of Sciences in Szeged until 1985.
Since 2021, she has been a Professor at Szeged University
Source (at the bottom): https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/medicine/2023/press-release/
It’s not clear to me even after I read some local sources.
Here is her website from Szeged Uni: https://u-szeged.hu/karikokatalin/en On this site you can read:
She was elected as a member of Academia Europaea (2020) then Honorary Doctor of the University of Szeged, of Duke University and Humanitaa University (2021). Katalin Karikó is a researcher-professor at the University of Szeged.
It sounds like some honorary-like thing, the uni want to gain some press from her name. Even though she was fired from there in 1985 because of downsizing. She was unknown in Hungary before Covid.