Csaba Kántor

Throughout his career, he worked at the Hungarian Post Experimental Institute (PKI) and its successors (he had already completed his university studies as a PKI scholarship holder). From 1971, he worked at the Microwave and Space Telecommunications Department, developing radio links, computer design, designating the space telecommunications ground station, and the Hungarian Academy of Sciences' (MTA) Intercosmos-related research. Between 1975 and 1985, his topic was also wave propagation research (he defended his results in a university doctoral dissertation). He became a department head and chief development engineer at PKI. He was an active participant in the creation of the first Hungarian digital terrain model.
From 2000, he was Deputy Director of MATÁV Rt., then Magyar Telekom PKI, and later Head of the General Directorate. He managed fixed and mobile radio optical developments, equipment qualification, technical evaluation of equipment purchases, and the company's R&D activities. He was the founder of the accredited equipment qualification and EMC (electromagnetic compatibility) test laboratories.

He was educated and passed state examinations at the Budapest University of Technology (BME), the Széchenyi István College, and the Kandó Kálmán College of Technology.

He was a member of the Scientific Council for Space Research; the Hungarian delegation of the European Telecommunications Standardization Institute (ETSI); the Hungarian Standards Institution's National Committee for Electronics (MSZT ENB); the National Committee of the International Radio Science Union (URSI); the Presidency of the Innovation Association; and the Hungarian Astronautical Society (MANT).
Between 2005 and 2008, he was the Deputy Secretary General of the Hungarian Association of Telecommunications and Informatics (HTE); Head of R&D of the HTE Presidency and also the HTE representative in the National Sustainable Development Council (NFFT) of the Parliament. Member of the editorial board of the journal Híradástechnika. Author of scientific books, publications and notes.

His awards: Békésy Memorial Medal (PKI, 1981); Special Innovation Award (together with colleagues, Ministry of Transport, Communications and Water Affairs (KHVM), 1997); Memorial Medal for Communications (Minister of Transport, Communications and Water Affairs, 1998); HTE Gold Badge (HTE, 2001); Tivadar Puskás Award (HTE, 2008).