Zoltán Pozsár-Szentmiklósy is associate professor at the ELTE Eötvös Loránd University (Budapest, Hungary) and head of department of the Department of Constitutional Law at the same institution (since 2021). He is a member of the Advisory Board of the Central and Eastern European Chapter of the International Society of Public Law (ICON-S) and of the Association of Hungarian Constitutional Lawyers, as well as member of Editorial Boards of several Hungarian journals.

He has been the Rector’s commissioner-general for student affairs at the ELTE University between 2013-2018. He served as the director of the ELTE Bibó István College of Advanced Studies between 2008-2012 and as an elected member of the National Election Commission of Hungary between 2010-2013. Previously he worked as a legal officer of the Hungarian Helsinki Committee, an NGO working for the protection of fundamental rights and the enforcement of the rule of law. He holds a PhD degree in Constitutional Law (2014) and hablitation (2021) from the ELTE University. His research fields cover the doctrine and methodology related  to the principle of proportionality, as well as the current doctrinal and practical challenges related to constitutional adjudication and the princile of separation of powers, especially in Central and Eeastern European region. He has been a visiting lecturer and researcher at several institutions, including Jagiellonian University in Krakow, the University of Victoria in Canada, Indiana University in Bloomington, the Ruprecht-Karls University of Heidelberg, the University of Milan, the University of Rijeka, and Trinity College Dublin.