József Dombi

From September 1972, he worked as a colleague of László Kalmár at the Cybernetics Laboratory of the University of Szeged, working on the cognitive model of human reaction times. From 1974, his task was to computerize quantum chemistry research in the university's institute headed by László Kalmár. In 1977, he received his doctorate with the distinction "summa cum laude".

Since 1995, he has been a lecturer, researcher, and later an associate professor at the Department of Informatics of the University of Szeged. He successfully defended his PhD thesis the same year ("The structure of fuzzy sets operators from the perspective of multi-factor decisions"). Since 2010, he has been a Doctor of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences ("On a class of continuous valued logical operators and its applications: pliant concept" dissertation); since 2012, he has been an appointed university professor.

He has been teaching at the university since 1975 in undergraduate and graduate courses in numerical mathematics, artificial intelligence, fuzzy systems, intelligent visual systems, intelligent engineering systems, and multifactorial decisions. He has taught MSc and PhD courses at European universities on several occasions. He has supervised numerous student projects, 7 of which have achieved national first place and two have won the Pro Sciencia medal.
He is the author of more than 200 publications; has presented at more than 150 international conferences; and has published two books by Springer Nature.

In 1980-81 he worked at the Department of Operations Research at Aachen University on a 12-month DAAD scholarship. In 1986 he received an Alexander von Humboldt scholarship, followed by a 3-month stay at the Bristol Artificial Intelligence Research Group in 1987. He has 3 patents to his name.

Since 2020, he has been the chairman of the mathematics, physics and computer science committees of the Szeged Academic Committee of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences; member of the Operations Research Committee of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences.

Honors: Master Teacher Award (1991); Pro Sciencia Gold Medal (1997); OTDK (National Scientific Students' Circle) Special Award (Ministry of Environmental Protection and Regional Development, 1997); László Kalmár Award (1998); For Hungary with Knowledge commemorative plaque (2001); Gold badge for OTDK activities (2013); Silver badge for OTDK activities (2015); Hungarian Fuzzy Society Grand Prize (2016); Gold plaque for his work as the chairman of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences' Informatics Working Committee (2017).
Awards: Information Technology Award for the development of the DataScope program (CEBIT, Brussels, Belgium, 1997); DataScope Best Software Award (COMDEX, Las Vegas, USA, 1999).