Dr. Zsolt Radák is Full Professor, the Chair of the Research Institute of Sport Sciences at Semmelweis University Faculty of Physical Education and Sport Sciences. He is serving as Vice-Dean of the Faculty responsible for sciences.

He is the Doctor of Science (D.Sc.) of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences since 2003. He teaches the subjects of training theory and life cycles in Hungarian and in English.

He is the chairman of the Sport and Educational Sciences Doctoral School at the university. He is not only supervising several PhD students at the Faculty, but he himself likes researching as well.

His scientific interests are widespread; he is engaged in the biochemical and molecular aspects of physical training and in ageing. He has good scientific relationship with universities in Finland, France, Japan, South-Korea and the United States. He has written over a hundred publications in Hungarian and in English, furthermore he is editor of two books in English.