Viola Horvath graduated at the Budapest University of Technology and Economics (BME) as a chemical engineer in 1987. She obtained the candidate of chemical sciences degree from the Hungarian Academy of Sciences (HAS) in 1993. She became a member of a research group of HAS at BME at the Department of Inorganic and Analytical Chemistry and currently holds a senior research scientist position. Her research interests include ion-selective electrodes, development of flow immunoassays and LC/MS methods and the design and synthesis of molecularly imprinted polymers. She is a member of the Hungarian Chemical Society, the Hungarian Society for Separation Sciences and the Scientific Committee on Analytical and Environmental Chemistry of HAS.