János Kubassek, geographer, head of the Hungarian Geographical Museum since 1983. Graduated in Debrecen as a history and geography teacher and received his PhD from the University of Pécs in 2005. His main research areas include the history of science, Hungarian travellers, and the activities of geographical explorers. He was a member of the Hungarian Scientific Africa Expedition (1987–1988). Dr Kubassek was a visiting scholar in South Korea in 1991 and a Fulbright visiting fellow in Washington DC in 2006 doing research in the Library of Congress and the Smithsonian Institute. He is the author and editor of 28 books, and published more than 300 articles. He is also the editor-in-chief of the journal Földrajzi Múzeumi Tanulmányok (Papers of the Geographical Museum).