Attila Podlussány was born in Budapest, on 21st August, 1941, son of Lajos Podlussány (industrial artist and amateur lepidopterist) and Ilona Karácsonyi (teacher). Married, his wife: Judit Guralnik (printer and teacher) – very likely the most tolerant wife among those of Hungarian amateur entomologists. They have 3 children: Zsolt, Csaba and Zsuzsanna and 4 grandchildren: Máté, Barnabás, Zsófia and Réka. His sister Erzsébet helps him with translation.

After primary school he finished an agricultural technical school, however being a city-boy he looked for another job arousing his interest much more. So he became a printer and had been working for 25 years in a Budapest printing office. For several years prior to pensioning he had been being the manager of the home printing office of the Hungarian Natural History Museum. Now he works in the department of beetles’ collection of the Museum. His task is to determinate and arrange the weevils’ material having been collected in the Carpathian basin since 1880.

Due to his love of nature and under the influence of his father he started collecting beetles in 1952. Now he has quite a rich material from his own collecting as well as from that of his friends and co-workers. In determination of the collected material famous foreign specialists like R Borovec, B. Korotyaev, R. Caldara, E. Colonnelli, L. Magnano, M. Wanat, M. Meregalli, P. Bialooki, N. N. Yunakovm L. Gültekin etc. have been of great help to him.

His collection (Coll. Podlussány) contains ca. 5000 known (determinated) weevils’ species (Curculionoidea) from all over the world (see his foreign expeditions) but first of all from the Palearctic. He has quite a large collection from Australia and other continents, however, a great part of it is still undeterminated.

He has found several species being new for science. He described three of them Bryodaemon kocsirenae, Bryodaemon rozneri and Bryodaemon boroveci. Some of the new species have been named after him. (See new publication list) The number of the indet. species is also significant. Since 1974 he has taken part in the fauna research of the Hungarian National Parks, first of all he enjoyed the research work in Transylvania, Mountain Bakony and at the Foot of Alps.. He works well among others with the following co-collectors: Irén Kocs, István Rozner, Imre Retezár, András Orosz, László Ádám, Dezső Szalóki, Kálmán Székely. You can read about the results in his publications. (see publication list)

He attended the sessions of the Hungarian Entomological Society even as a child. Since 1970 he has been a member; assistant secretary in 1990 and secretary of this Society from 1993 till 1999. He has been awarded the bronze degree of the Frivaldszky Memorial Medal.