She was elected as a member of Academia Europaea (2020) then Honorary Doctor of the University of Szeged, of Duke University and Humanitaa University (2021). Katalin Karikó is a researcher-professor at the University of Szeged.
It sounds like some honorary-like thing, the uni want to gain some press from her name. Even though she was fired from there in 1985 because of downsizing. She was unknown in Hungary before Covid.
It’s not clear to me even after I read some local sources.
Here is her website from Szeged Uni: https://u-szeged.hu/karikokatalin/en On this site you can read:
It sounds like some honorary-like thing, the uni want to gain some press from her name. Even though she was fired from there in 1985 because of downsizing. She was unknown in Hungary before Covid.