Ferenc Friedler

He was a scientific intern at the Hungarian Academy of Sciences between 1977 and 1979. He began his career at the Hungarian Academy of Sciences' Institute of Technical Chemistry as an academic fellow, then was the founding group and department head from 1979 to 1997. He has been a doctor of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences since 1995.

A university professor at the University of Veszprém (VE), and then its successor institution, the University of Pannonia (PE), he was the founding head of the Department of Computer Science from 1993 to 2015; between 2001-2003 he was the director of the Independent Institute of Technical Informatics. Between 2003-2011 he was the founding dean of the Faculty of Technical Informatics at the University of Veszprém; between 2011-2015 he was the rector of the university.
In 2015, he was the Deputy Chairman of the National Research Development and Innovation Office.

He has been teaching at the Pázmány Péter Catholic University (PPKE) since 2016. He is a core member of the Tamás Roska Doctoral School of Engineering and Natural Sciences at PPKE and a lecturer at the doctoral schools of several other universities.

He spent several years abroad, as a result of which he has extensive scientific contacts. Between 1990-1999 he was an appointed researcher at Kansas State University (Manhattan). Between 2010-2012 he was a visiting professor at the École Politechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) in Switzerland. He is the initiator or participant of a whole series of decisive international collaborations. He has created joint publications, lectures, seminars, and projects in collaboration with a total of eight universities in Europe, the USA, South Africa, and South Korea.

Candidate of Chemistry (1990), Doctor of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences (1995 – Chemistry), Habilitation University Professor of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences (1999). A committed supporter of mathematical talent research and care. In 2001, he initiated the establishment of the Erdős Pál Mathematical Talent Development School. He developed the principles of the "Fasori Program" university elite training, and founded the György Pólya Award, which rewards high school teachers who are leaders in talent research and care. Since 2011, he has been a member of the Hungarian Mathematical Talent Development Council.

About his professional public activities: among others, he has been the chairman of the Informatics Committee of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences since 2005, a member and co-chairman of the Cybernetics Committee of the Hungarian Chemists' Association since 1998, and the chairman of the Informatics Scientific Committee of the Hungarian Rectors' Conference since 2010. Founder of international scientific conference series. Member of the editorial board of domestic and foreign journals. Between 2013 and 2018 he was the chairman of the Hungarian Society of Information Technology; honorary chairman from 2025.

His research areas include mathematical modeling and optimization of information processes in technical systems, and analysis and synthesis of technical systems. He has nearly 150 publications and nearly 240 presentations at international conferences.

His most significant awards include: Knight's Cross of the Order of Merit of the Republic of Hungary (2003); Kalmár Prize (NJSZT, 2003); Polinszky Prize (Mayor of Veszprém, 2006); Neumann Prize (NJSZT, 2007); Dénes Gábor Prize (Novofer Foundation, 2008); Széchenyi Prize (2010); János Bolyai Memorial Medal (2010).