Géza Galavics is an art historian, historian and member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences. Galavics has conducted research on the Hungarian Renaissance, Baroque and Classicist art, and on the history of garden art. He has been the head of the Early Art Section of the Institute of Art History of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences. He became the member, and later the head of the Art Collections Board of the Academy. He is also a member of the Board of the Hungarian Art History and Archaeology Association.