Tamás Váradi has a background in Linguistics. Graduated from Eötvös Loránd University in English, Spanish and General and Applied Linguistics in 1976. His interest later turned into Computational Linguistics. In 1990 he spent a year as visiting scholar at Lancaster University where he worked on the compilation of the Parsed LOB Corpus. Between 1991-1995 he taught at London University and worked on the MARSEC project with Lancaster University. Founded the Department of Corpus Linguistics at RIL in 1997 and has actively joined the European scene participating in a series of projects (MATCHPAD, TELRI, CONCEDE, CACAO). He is one of the initiators of the CLARIN infrastructure project and currently coordinates the CESAR project as part of the META-NET community as well as the iTranslate4 project.