Orsolya Karácsony is a medical doctor (Semmelweis University), computer scientist (Eötvös Loránd University), and holds a PhD in Chemistry from Carnegie Mellon Universitiy, PA, USA. She currently works as a Researcher in the Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience and Psychology.

In the past five years, she has been studying conditions with pathological changes involving the central nervous system, with the aim of shedding light on the causes and pathology of illnesses such as temporal lobe epilepsy, chronic fatigue syndrome and stroke and to give conservative therapeutic implications for these.

Her experimental methods include two-photon microscopy, cortical electrophysiology, behavioral studies and molecular biology measurements on mice and she processes and analyzes her own data using mathematical modelling, numerical methods and non-generative artificial intelligence, mainly non-supervised learning. She also processes and analyzes patient data.

During her PhD and postdoc years, she studied the communication of natural systems with their environments and based on this, the regulation of these systems. with special respect to networks in the mammalian central nervous system. Starting with the laws of physics and physiology, she planned microscopy and electrophysiology studies on cell cultures and, additionally to the above, behavioral studies on awake live animals. She gained extended experience in atomic force, superresolution fluorescence, two-photon and stimulated Raman scattering microscopy.

She takes part in the data repository ambassador program because she believes that the publication of scientific research data in an easy to understand and reusable form increases transparency and effectiveness of scientific research.

In 2026, she will upload the so far collected data for her project that aims to add a conservative therapeutic option to the currently available cures for temporal lobe epilepsy, noting that this is a basic research project, conducted on mice. This project will be published as a chapter of her new book that is currently under review.