Ákos Bertalan Apatóczky is a Hungarian sinologist and mongolist. He holds the position of Associate Professor and Chair of the Department of Chinese Studies at Károli Gáspár University’s Institute of Oriental Languages and Cultures. His research focuses on Middle Mongol sources in Chinese script, historical linguistics, and Sino–Mongol language interaction. He defended his PhD with summa cum laude in 2006 for his work on the “Beilu yiyu,” a 16th-century Sino-Mongol glossary.

Since 2013, he has taught at Károli University, habilitated in 2017, and led the KRE Sinology Research Group from 2020 to 2022. From 2021 onwards, he has been a visiting lecturer at the University of Vienna, teaching classical Mongolian text reading. His major scholarly contributions include reconstructing over 1 400 headwords in the Lulongsai lüe military glossary and identifying their source texts, as well as philological reconstructions of Middle Mongol texts in Chinese script. He served as President of the Permanent International Altaistic Conference in 2017 and 2022.