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Viktor graduated with a degree in biology in 2011 in Budapest. During his first year at university he joined László Acsády's Laboratory for Thalamus Research where he examined the driver terminal distribution in the higher order somatosensory thalamus of rodents. As a PhD student, he studied the in vivo electrophysiological properties and behaviour-related effects of an ascending glycinergic inhibitory pathway originating in the brainstem and targeting the intralaminar thalamic nuclei.

Éva Mikics is the group leader of Laboratory of Translational Behavioral Neuroscience at the Institute of Experimental Medicine (KOKI) in Budapest. She studied at the University of Veterinary Medicine in Budapest for her MSc and obtained a PhD degree in neurobiology at János Szentágothai Doctoral School of Neuroscience at Semmelweis University, Budapest under the supervision of József Haller. She continued to work as postdoc at the Laboratory of Behavioural Neurobiology and Stress Studies at KOKI. She spent considerable time in behavioral neurobiology laboratories of Nathan Kline Institute of Pschychiatric Research (Csaba Vadasz, New York, USA), the National Institute of Drug Abuse (Steven Goldberg, Baltimore, USA) and Leiden University (Menno R Kruk, Leiden, the Netherlands). In 2018 she founded the Laboratory of Translational Behavioral Neuroscience at KOKI, which she has led since then. Her interest is mainly focused on mechanisms underlying vulnerability to stress-related mental disorders and how these are affected by early-life adversities.