Márta Fülöp is scientific consultant and head of the Social and Cultural Psychology Research Group in the Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience and Psychology of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, and a professor of social psychology and head of the Social Interaction: Competition and Cooperation Research Group in the Institute of Psychology of the Faculty of Psychology and Education of Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest, Hungary. She was a member of the executive committee of the Children’s Identity and Citizenship in Europe SOCRATES academic network between 2000 and 2013, and chaired the annual research student conferences between 2006 and 2013. She was also a member of the executive committee of the Jean Monnet Children’s Identity and Citizenship in Europe Network (2014–2017). She is research and publication officer of the Children’s Identity and Citizenship: European Association.

She is associate editor of the journal Citizenship, Teaching, Learning, and was guest editor of the 2013 special issue on co-operative competitive citizenship. She has participated in several research projects related to citizenship, supported by the British Council and the Hungarian Scholarship Board (1999–2002), the British Academy, the Hungarian Academy of Sciences and the Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts (2002–2005). She is a member of the youth activism team supported by the Leverhulme Trust.