Dr. Kovacs is a Professor at the Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathobiology, University of Toronto, Consultant Neuropathologist at the Laboratory Medicine Program, University Health Network, and Principal Investigator at the Tanz Centre for Research in Neurodegenerative Disease. He is also a Senior Scientist at the Krembil Brain Institute, Faculty and Consultant Neurologist, Edmond J. Safra Program in Parkinson's Disease, and Co-Director of the Rossy Program for Progressive Supranuclear Palsy Research.

Dr. Kovacs completed his medical training at the Semmelweis University, Budapest, Hungary where he received qualifications in Neurology (1998) and Neuropathology (2003) and a Ph.D. in Neuroscience (2002). From 2004-to 2007 Dr. Kovacs was the Head of the Department of Neuropathology, National Institute of Psychiatry and Neurology in Budapest, Hungary. From 2007- to 2019 he was an Associate Professor at the Institute of Neurology at the Medical University of Vienna, Austria. He was the leader of the Hungarian (2007-2019) and Austrian (2011-2019) Reference Center for Human Prion Diseases. Dr. Kovacs has also received training at Indiana University (2007) and the University of Pennsylvania (2016 and 2017) as visiting professor/scholar.

He has published more than 340 peer-reviewed papers with an H-index of 62 and edited two books on Neuropathology. His major research interest is the neuropathology of neurodegenerative diseases. Dr. Kovacs‘ aim is to add his expertise in the neuropathology of neurodegenerative diseases to enhance the excellent Neuropathology team at LMP, probe the molecular mechanisms underlying neurodegenerative proteinopathies using state-of-the-art methodologies, and facilitate collaborative research on neurodegenerative disorders at the Krembil Brain Institute and Tanz Centre for Research in Neurodegenerative Disease.