Gyula Balla is a researcher in the Translational Behavioral Neuroscience research group of the HUN-REN Institute of Experimental Medicine. He is involved in translational neuroscience research, which primarily aims to contribute to the understanding of the biological background of mental disorders with the help of animal experimental models, by identifying molecular mechanisms that could potentially be targeted for regulation in medicine in the future. The group's main research questions revolve around the identification of the long-term effects of early stressors and the pursuit of genetic factors influencing vulnerability and predisposition to disease. In his work, Gyula uses the toolkits of behavioral biology, molecular biology, anatomy, microscopy, and bioinformatics in data analysis.

Gyula would like to get to know the ARP framework by repositing data of a research project examining network-level changes in the central nervous system underlying pathological fear generalization, which is also characteristic of post-traumatic stress disorder. His goals include a detailed understanding and dissemination of the European Union’s OpenScience guidelines, drawing researchers’ attention to the importance of archiving and storing their work on domestic servers, and showing that placing experimental data in a transparent manner, equipped with appropriate metadata, can result in a more open, accessible, and reproducible science.