János Fodor

Between 1981 and 1983, he was a scientific fellow at the Department of Probability Calculus at Eötvös Loránd University (ELTE); he defended his doctoral dissertation in 1984.
From 1983 to 1992, he worked as a research fellow at the ELTE Computer Center. From 1989, he was the scientific secretary of the ELTE Computer Center until its closure in 1992, and was also a member of the Foreign Affairs Committee responsible for international scientific cooperation at ELTE. After that, he was a senior research fellow at the successor institution, the Department of Computer Science at ELTE, until 1995.

In 1991, he defended his PhD thesis in the Department of Mathematics. In 2000, he habilitated at ELTE, and in 2004, he became a doctor of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences. Between 1991 and 2003, he was a visiting researcher (1-3 months) at more than 10 foreign universities. He was an honorary doctor of the Technical University of Timisoara.

Between 1995 and 1999, he was an associate professor at the Faculty of Agricultural Mechanical Engineering (MGK) of the Gödöllő University of Agricultural Sciences (GATE). From 1997, he received a Széchenyi Professorship Scholarship. Between 1999 and 2004, he was an associate professor and head of the Department of Biomathematics and Computer Science at the successor institution, the Faculty of Veterinary Medicine (before 2000: University of Veterinary Medicine). From 2004, he became a university professor.

From 2005, he was employed as a university professor at the Institute of Intelligent Engineering Systems of the Neumann János Faculty of Informatics (NIK) of the Budapest Technical University (BMF), and at the same time became the scientific vice-rector of the BMF. He also remained vice-rector at the successor institution, Óbuda University (ÓE); from 2014 he was the university's rector.

His main research areas are: logical operations, information aggregation, fuzzy preference modeling and multi-criteria decisions, various modeling of uncertainty, intelligent computing.

He was a member of the Hungarian Operations Research Society, co-chair and then president of the Hungarian Fuzzy Society. He is a founding member of the European Society for Fuzzy Logic and Technology (EUSFLAT), co-chair of the EURO Working Group on Fuzzy Sets (EUROFUSE), and a member of the EURO Working Group on Aid for Multicriteria Decisions and ESIGMA (EURO Summer Institute Group on Multicriteria Analysis).

His awards: Gyula Farkas Memorial Prize (Bolyai János Mathematical Society, BJMT, 1987); Pro Negotio Universitatis Prize (SZTE); Golden Ring (BMF).