Norbert Pap

He gained a Soros, a Békésy and a Bolyai scholarship. The Hungarian Academy of Sciences awarded him as a Young Researcher for his geopolitical essay. He also received from the HAS a Szádeczky-Kardoss Elemér award for his publication activity on political geography. The Hungarian Geographical Society acknowledged his research, organization, and academic work with a Pro Geographia award as well. In 2013 he received the City's scientific award from Pécs, as well as in 2016 the County of Baranya's General Assembly acknowledged his work with a Cultural Award.

Since 2008, one of his research topics is the spread and the situation of Islam in Central and Eastern Europe and in Hungary. Pap has been working in Szigetvár since 2010, he’s leading the researches related to the death and burial of Suleiman sultan. Since 2015 he’s been leading historical and geographical investigations in relation with the role of Miklós Zrinski and Suleiman the Magnificent in Szigetvár.

Pap started his research work in 1995 at the Doctoral School on Earth Sciences at the University of Pécs graduating there four years later with highest honor: summa cum laude. He' been working at the University of Pécs at the Institute of Geography since 1998. In 1999 the rector of the university invited him to be the managing director of the East-Mediterranean and Balkan Studies Center, which he stills fills in. Pap is an associate professor since 2004 and the leader of the Political Geography Department.

Norbert Pap (born 3 June 1969, in Tab, Hungary) is a Hungarian geographer–historian, founder of the Balkan Research Group, as well as leader of the Zrinski-Suleiman Research Group.