[2] Bakró-Nagy studied English, Hungarian and Finno-Ugric linguistics to MA level at Eötvös Loránd University between 1970 and 1976.

In 2001 she took up a position as full professor at the University of Szeged, which she again held until her retirement in 2016.

[2] Bakró-Nagy has received numerous honours and awards for her work, including an honorary doctorate from the University of Helsinki (2007),[4] the First Class Medal of the Order of the White Rose of Finland (2011),[2] and the Officer's Cross of the Hungarian Order of Merit (2016).

[2] Along with Johanna Laakso and Elena Skribnik she is editor of the Oxford Guide to the Uralic Languages (2022).

[6] Bakró-Nagy has been co-investigator on several international grant-funded projects, including Ob-Ugric languages: conceptual structures, lexicon, constructions, categories - "An innovative approach to creating descriptive resources for Khanty and Mansi" (2009–2015),[7] Innovative Networking in Infrastructure for Endangered Languages (2011–2014),[8] and Changes in the Eurasian steppes and their peripheries (2015–2018).