Péter Kacsuk

Since 1998, he has been the head of the Parallel and Distributed Systems Scientific Laboratory of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences' Computer Science and Automation Research Institute (SZTAKI). He defended his doctoral thesis at the Budapest University of Technology (BME) in 1984. He obtained his PhD degree in 1989. He habilitated at the University of Vienna in 1997. He obtained his PhD degree from the Hungarian Academy of Sciences in 2001.

He worked as a professor at the University of Miskolc between 1999 and 2006, at ELTE between 2001 and 2011, and at the University of Westminster in London between 2001 and 2017. He is currently a professor emeritus at the University of Westminster. He has taught as a visiting professor at the University of Vienna, the Vienna University of Technology, the Johannes Kepler University in Linz, and the University of Klagenfurt. In addition to the above, he has spent extended periods as a visiting researcher at Queen Mary College in London, the University of Southampton, the ECRC research center in Munich, and Kyushu University in Japan.

His research interests include parallel and distributed computing systems, including parallel logic programming systems, supercomputer programming environments, grid computing systems, and cloud systems.

He has participated in several European research and education projects as a leader at various levels. He was the technical leader of two Tempus projects and the coordinator of four FP7 research projects. He is the author or co-author of 2 books, 2 university notes and more than 350 scientific articles. He has successfully graduated 17 PhD students. He is the editor-in-chief of the scientific journal Journal of Grid Computing published by Springer.

He was a founding member and president of the Hungarian Transputer User Group, the Hungarian Grid Competence Center and the International Desktop Grid Federation. He was the initiator and technical leader of the creation of the MTA Cloud infrastructure.

Awards: Institute Award (MTA SZTAKI, 1998, 1999, 2001, 2008); Kalmár Award (NJSZT, 2000); Officer's Cross of the Order of Merit of the Republic of Hungary (2018).