Tamás Martinek is the head of the Department of Medical Chemistry, University of Szeged. He received his MSc in Chemistry 1996 then he undertook a PhD in Pharmaceutical Sciences under the supervision of Prof. Ferenc Fülöp, at the Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry where he graduated in 2001. His research focused on beta peptide foldamers, their design, structural analysis, and function. He was promoted to Professor in 2014 when he received Doctor of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences title, became the head of the Department of Pharmaceutical Analysis and between 2014-2018 he was the Vice-Rector for International & Public Relations at the University of Szeged. He was the director of the Interdisciplinary Centre of Excellence (2018-2020) and became the head of the Department of Medical Chemistry in 2019. He received funding from Hungarian Scientific Research Fund (2002-2005, 2007-2009); MTA Momentum Programme (2011-2016); Hungarian Research, Development and Innovation Office (2020-2024) and was the scientific coordinator and project manager of several GINOP (2016-2020) and H2020 (2015-2018) schemes.