Ferenc Bari

During his university studies, he began to work with medical measurement technology and biological signal processing. After graduating, he was employed at the Institute of Physiology of the Szent-Györgyi Albert University of Medicine (SZOTE); in addition to his work, he studied physiology and biophysics. Here he became involved in research and obtained a doctorate in biomedicine. He has been teaching at the university since then; he has been involved in physiology education for more than 20 years.

In 1989-90 he worked in Germany as a Max Planck Society fellow. After returning home, he founded a circulatory physiology laboratory. He received his PhD in 1995.
He worked in the United States for 3 years from 1995. He received his Doctor of Medicine degree from the Hungarian Academy of Sciences in 2001. Between 2014-18 he was the Dean of the Faculty of General Medicine at SZOTE.

In 2002, he was appointed as a university professor, and in 2009, he was appointed as the head of the institute at the Institute of Medical Informatics of the universities of Szeged, which in the meantime merged in 2000 under the name of the University of Szeged (SZTE). He has been teaching medical physics and medical informatics since 2009. In 2010, the Institute of Medical Physics and Medical Informatics of SZTE was founded under his leadership, which he led as a head of department until 2019. Since 2022, he has been a part-time research professor at the University of Pannonia (PE).

He was the initiator and since 2014 the head of the international interdisciplinary summer university LAMELIS (Lasers in Medicine and Life Sciences). He was the first to establish a Telemedicine Training Center and actively participated in the development of interdisciplinary study programs. He deals with the medical-biological use of lasers, telemedicine, the medical and educational aspects of 3D printing, and the IT aspects of patient information. He has led several frontier research projects (laser measurement of cerebral blood flow; nanomedicine).

He has been an invited lecturer at numerous foreign universities and has published more than 200 scientific papers.
He is a member of several European and Hungarian scientific societies and their management boards, and was elected president of the Hungarian Physiological Society (MÉT) in 2018. He was vice-president of the John von Neumann Computer Science Society (NJSZT) between 2015 and 2018. He is an honorary doctor of the Victor Babes University of Timisoara.

In 2009, he received the “Master Teacher” gold medal from the Minister of Education; in 2018, he was honored with the James Fisher Lecturer Award from Tulane University in New Orleans; in 2022, he received the “Pro Universitate” award from the University of Szeged; in 2024, he received the Kalmár Award from the National Academy of Sciences.