Gergely is a clinician scientist based in Auckland, New Zealand. His research primarily focuses on early life development of the immune response and understanding the immunological background of complications affecting preterm and term neonates as well as pregnant women. He also has significant results on the pathomechanism of various autoimmune disorders. He contributed to developing novel flow cytometry based diagnostic and experimental methods. In his clinical role, he works as a consultant neonatologist. He is a co-chair of the ECR Forum Committee of the Royal Society of New Zealand, and an alumnus of the Global Young Academy and the Hungarian Young Academy.