Ágnes Kittel graduated with a degree in chemistry from Eötvös Loránd University in Budapest, obtained her PhD in 1996, and was awarded a doctorate by the Hungarian Academy of Sciences in 2006. Since 2006, she has been a scientific advisor at the Hungarian Research Institute for Experimental Medicine (HUN-REN IEM), and since 2017, she has been the institute's communications officer. Her collaboration with scientists from numerous renowned European and American institutions, as well as the Weizmann Institute in Israel, has resulted in several articles. Over the past 15 years, her TEM studies, conducted in collaboration with Professor Edit Buzás (Semmelweis University, Budapest) and her team, have contributed significantly to the group's outstanding results in the research of extracellular vesicles of various origins. Kittel has been organizing the annual conferences of the Hungarian Microscopy Society since 2001, served as its secretary between 2002 and 2018, and has been its president since 2018. Between 2016 and 2024, she was chairman of the Board of Trustees of the Hungarian Electron Microscopy Foundation and a Board Member of the European Microscopical Society (EMS). No of full papers: 114 Independent citations: 11 000