Levente is a Professor and the Director of the Centre for Crop Health at the University of Southern Queensland, Australia. Before moving to Australia in 2017, he was the Director of the Plant Protection Institute of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences (Budapest, Hungary), from 2012 to 2016, and worked in that institute altogether for 25 years. During that period, he spent some time abroad, in France (Rhone Poulenc Agro; Univ. Paris-Sud; and INRA); UK (Univ. of Kent; and CABI); Canada (McGill Univ.); and the USA (USDA; and Univ. Wisconsin-Madison), with the support of Fulbright, EU, and OECD Fellowships. His research has been focused on obligate biotrophic plant pathogens, especially powdery mildews and rusts, mycoparasitism, and biocontrol of crop diseases and weeds.