Krisztina Karsai is a full professor in criminal law at the University of Szeged (Hungary) and is specialized in European and international criminal law, and criminal policy. Since 2000, she has been a member of the expert group of the Ministry of Justice for combating drug problems and, since 2005, for crime prevention. She is active in international networks of criminal sciences and is a guest professor at many universities (Istanbul, Oradea, Shanghai). She gives guest lectures at German and Spanish universities. She delivered numerous reports as contracted national legal expert of European projects (since 2012) in granted projects with relevant subjects (sanctioning system, the disposal of confiscated assets, organised crime, criminal procedure etc.).

Krisztina Karsai is an independent expert of the European Commission since 2012 and has been granted with Jean Monnet Chair until 2019, the title of her project being “Legal Innovation for Citizens, the Area of Freedom, Security and Justice”. Krisztina Karsai is the author of many books and articles on Hungarian and European criminal law and policy. She is also the editor and co-author of the main Commentary on the Hungarian Criminal Code of 2012.