Dr. Viktória Sugár, architect, focuses her research primarily on the rehabilitation of historic urban areas, sustainable architecture, and climate-neutral urban development. She earned her doctoral degree at the Osaka University Graduate School of Engineering, and her BSc and MSc degrees at the Ybl Miklós Faculty of Architecture and Civil Engineering, Szent István University.

She has over a decade of experience in various academic and leadership roles, having participated in and led numerous national and international projects. Previously, she worked in Japan as a specially appointed assistant professor at Osaka University and spent eight years at the Centre for Energy Research, now part of HUN-REN (formerly the Hungarian Academy of Sciences). There, in addition to her work in urban energy research, she served as an architectural expert for the European Spallation Source (ESS).

She actively contributes to the organization of scientific and professional conferences, including as the main organizer of the Ybl Conference on the Built Environment (2023, 2024, 2025). She is a founding member of the University’s Doctoral School of Architecture, Design, and Technology, and one of the editors-in-chief of the Ybl Journal of Built Environment.

Since 2011, she has been working at the Ybl Miklós Faculty of Architecture and Civil Engineering. Between 2021 and 2024, she served as Director of the Institute of Architecture, and from July 2024, she holds the position of Vice-Rector for Sustainability and Priority Developments at Óbuda University.