Ágnes Kulcsar has been coordinating the multi-investigator Synergy grants call since its beginning in 2012. She has experience in the coordination of various individual grants evaluations as well as in the work of a scientific officer. Her duties include the preparation of the submission system for the applicants and ensuring a proper implementation of the evaluation process.  Drafting guidance documents, such as the Information for Applicants and the Guide for Peer Reviewers are also part of her work. One of her essential tasks is helping applicants and experts by responding to their queries about grant applications.
After being awarded a PhD degree in biophysics, working on bacterial retinal proteins, at the University of Szeged in collaboration with the Biological Research Centre of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, she went on to pursue postdoctoral fellowships in biomaterials at INSERM, Strasbourg, France, then in cellular biophysics at the University of Heidelberg, Germany. She has worked at the ERC Executive Agency since 2009, switching from a research career to an administrative path in 2007 when she started to work at the European Commission as a project officer in the field of biomaterials.