Dr. habil Sugár Viktória PhD

Dr Viktória Sugár is an architect and researcher whose main fields of expertise include the rehabilitation of historic urban districts, sustainable architecture, and climate-neutral urban development. She obtained her PhD at the Graduate School of Engineering, Osaka University, where her research focused on the energy rehabilitation of historic residential buildings in Budapest. Her doctoral work was supervised by Prof. Michihiro Kita, with whom she has been collaborating on various research projects since 2009.

She earned both her BSc and MSc degrees at the Ybl Miklós Faculty of Architecture and Civil Engineering of Szent István University. With more than a decade of experience in academic and leadership positions, she has participated in and led numerous national and international research projects and has authored more than 70 scientific publications in her field.

Earlier in her career, she worked as a visiting researcher at Osaka University in Japan and spent eight years at the Centre for Energy Research of HUN-REN (formerly the Hungarian Academy of Sciences). In addition to conducting research on urban energy systems, she contributed as an architectural expert to projects related to the European Spallation Source (ESS).

She is actively involved in the organization of international scientific conferences, serving as the chief organizer of the Ybl Conference on the Built Environment (2023, 2024, 2025).

Alongside her academic and artistic activities, she also contributes to professional projects, including the development of municipal climate strategies.

Her teaching portfolio includes courses in architectural history and sustainable architecture, delivered in both Hungarian and English.

She is a founding member of the Architecture, Design and Technology Doctoral School of the university and serves as Editor-in-Chief of the Ybl Journal of Built Environment.

Since 2011 she has been affiliated with the Ybl Miklós Faculty of Architecture and Civil Engineering, where she served as Director of the Institute of Architecture between 2021 and 2024. Since July 2024, she has been Vice-Rector for Sustainability and Strategic Developments at Óbuda University.