Zoltán Horvath

He received his PhD in mathematics and computer science in 1996, was habilitated in 2004, and was appointed as a university professor at ELTE in 2007. From 2007 to 2010, he was the Deputy Dean for Scientific and International Relations of the Faculty of Informatics, after which he held the position of Vice-Rector for International Affairs of ELTE for two and a half years. Since 2012, he has been the Dean of the Faculty of Informatics. Since 2002, he has been a member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences' Informatics and Computer Science Committee, and between 2007 and 2013, he was an elected doctoral representative of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences' General Assembly. He is an honorary doctor of the Babes-Bolyai University of Cluj-Napoca.

His main teaching and research areas are: Specification and implementation of distributed systems, functional programming languages, parallel processes (Petri nets, process algebra languages, distributed systems), formal semantics of distributed and parallel systems, design and verification of distributed and parallel programs. He has more than 160 publications.

With his colleagues at the Faculty of Informatics, he developed an exemplary industry-university cooperation model, as a result of which the Ericsson Software Technology Laboratory was established at the faculty in 2011. He was the initiator and from 2010 until full membership, in 2017, he led the Hungarian National Affiliated Node of the European Institute of Innovation and Technology, Information and Communication Technologies, EIT ICT Labs (EIT Digital since 2015), whose mission is to develop a knowledge-based society and a competitive European innovation area by productively connecting education-research-innovation. As Dean, he considers it his fundamental task to continue the traditional two-polar training strategy of the Faculty of Informatics, providing competitive practical knowledge based on strong theoretical foundations, to develop industry-academic relations, and to develop new, transferable models of cooperation.

His awards include: Knight's Cross of the Hungarian Order of Merit (2013); "Informatics Instructor of the Year" (Hungarian Association of Leading Informatics Professionals, VISZ, 2002); János Bolyai Research Scholarship of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences (2003-2006); Kalmár Prize (1999); Pro Scientia Master Teacher Gold Medal (2010); Kalmár Prize (NJSZT, 2019). The H81/HU19 CEEPUS network under his leadership won the Ministerial Award in 2004, 2007 and 2019.