Balazs is currently working as a postgraduate research student at the Laboratory of Ultrafast Physics and Optics (LUPO) at Heriot-Watt University. He is interested in UV and supercontinuum light source development and commercialization.

Balazs received a BSc and MSc degrees in 2009 and 2012 respectively, in law and defence administration in Budapest, Hungary, specializing in disaster management. He worked as a Lieutenant at a fire department for several years before changing fields to study physical sciences. Moving to Edinburgh, Scotland he then studied Engineering Physics at Heriot-Watt University from 2017. During his undergraduate time Balazs was granted multiple summer scholarships. In 2019 he received a scholarship from the Institute of Photonics and Quantum Sciences (IPAQS) and worked on the Photonic chip development via computer assisted simulations project. In 2020 he received the Carnegie Vacation Summer Scholarship and worked on the Low-loss integrated photonics with silicon nitride: Numerical Modelling of Pulse Propagation in Nonlinear Media project. Both of these project were supervised by Dr. Marcello Ferrera.

After finishing his BSc (Hons) degree in 2021, winning the Wallace prize for the best student on the programme, Balazs joined the LUPO lab as a Research assistant, before starting his PhD studies later that year. His research topic is nonlinear optics in gas-filled hollow-core fibres.