Andras Javor (1937)

From 1960 to 1997, he was a researcher, scientific advisor, and department head at the Central Research Institute of Physics of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences (KFKI).

In 1995, he became a doctor of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences with his dissertation "Object-oriented simulation system architectures and methodologies using distributed, mobile and static knowledge bases and inferential procedures".

From 1995 he was the director of the McLeod Institute of Simulation Sciences Hungarian Center, and from 2006 to 2014 he was the director of the entire international research institute network.

Between 2001 and 2007, he was a university professor at the Széchenyi István College (later University, SZE); from 2000 to 2007, he was the director of the Faculty of Informatics and Electrical Engineering, and from 2000 to 2002, he was the head of the Department of Economic Informatics. Meanwhile, between 1999 and 2007, he was a university professor at the Department of Information and Knowledge Management at the Budapest University of Technology and Economics (BME).

He was the President of the International Association for Mathematics and Computers in Simulation (IMACS) HUNGARY, the President of the Hungarian Simulation Society (HSS), a member of the Board of Directors of the European Simulation Society (EUROSIM), and the Secretary of EUROSIM. He was a member of the Microelectronics Technology Committee, the Electronic Devices and Technologies Committee, the Automation and Computing Committee, and the Informatics Committee of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences. He was a member of the Informatics Subcommittee of the Hungarian Accreditation Committee. He was the President of the Simulation Group of the Semiconductors and Integrated Circuits Department of the Telecommunication Scientific Association, and a member of the Presidency of the Electronic Computers and Control Devices Department of the Measurement and Automation Scientific Association.

Between 1991 and 2011, he was the leader of several domestic and EU projects. He was a visiting professor and invited lecturer at German, Dutch, Japanese and Chinese universities.

He is the author or co-author of 7 books out of his 179 scientific publications. He is a member of the editorial board of 10 international scientific journals and has been a member of the program committee, section chair, and invited speaker at numerous international conferences.

His awards: Gold Medal of Merit for Outstanding Inventor (MTA, 1978), Lajos Jánosy Prize (Eötvös Loránd Physical Society 1980), Frigyes Csáki Prize (Hungarian Electrotechnical Association, 1995), Golden Cross of Merit of the Republic of Hungary (2006).