Laszlo Lovasz held the Chair of Geometry at the University of Szeged from 1975-1982 and the Chair of Computer Science at the EUtvUs LorCnd University in Budapest from 1983 to 1993. He was A.D. White Professor-at-Large at Cornell University from 1982 to 1987. He is a member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences and three other Academies.
His awards include the George PUlya Prize of the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (1979), the Ray D. Fulkerson Prize of the American Mathematical Society and the Mathematical Programming Society (1982) and the Brouwer Medal of the Dutch Mathematical Society (1993). He is editor-in-chief of Combinatorica and editor of 12 other Journals.
His field of research is discrete mathematics, in particular its applications in the theory of algorithms and the theory of computing. He has written 4 research monographs and 3 textbooks, and about 200 research papers.