Dávid Szatmári was born in 1984, Hungary. and received a degree in Biology (MSc) in 2007 from the University of Pécs, Faculty of Sciences. He worked in Prof. Miklos Kellermayer's Lab, where he focused on the mechanics of the single molecule AFM of striated muscle titin, polyE motifs. Since 2009, he has worked in Prof. Miklós Nyitrai's Lab on the topic of fluorescence spectroscopic characterization of actin and actin-binding proteins. He spent two years between 2012 and 2014 in A*STAR, IMCB, Singapore in Prof. Robert Robinson's Lab, working on the structural dynamics of gelsolin. He finished his PhD in 2018 and then started his own project on evolutionary features of clinically relevant cytoskeletal proteins.