Emil Kren

After his university studies, he worked as a researcher at the Central Physical Research Institute (KFKI) of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences from 1958, then as a head of the institute in various positions until 1991. His research field was the neutron diffraction study of the magnetic structure and phase transformations of alloys. In 1968, he worked for a year in France, at the Centre d'Études Nucléaires de Grenoble (CENG). He obtained his PhD in physics in 1974.
As a scientific leader, he was the head of the Department of Solid State Physics, then the director of the Microelectronics Research Institute (KFKI MKI) and the head of the target program for research into magnetic memories.
He worked as Deputy Director General between 1981 and 1991, and in 1982 - due to the Director General's illness - he served as Acting Director General for 1 year.

Between 1982 and 1984, he worked at the national level under the Government Commissioner for Microelectronics; he was the chairman of the Coordination Committee of the Solid State Physics Main Direction. He also participated in the work of the National Technical Development Committee (OMFB).

Between 1991 and 2016, he was the Chairman of the Supervisory Board of T-Systems Hungary Zrt. (or its legal predecessor: the companies of the KFKI Computer Group).

In 1994, he started an informal project in collaboration with art teachers and museum professionals to develop web solutions for art history education and to support the work of museum curators. As a result, the collection of images entitled Fine Arts in Hungary and the Web Gallery of Art (WGA) were published on the World Wide Web (in 1995 and 1996, respectively), which were internationally presented at the Museums and the Web (Toronto, 1998) and Digital Resources for the Humanities (King's College, London, 1999) conferences. The National Association of Hungarian Art Teachers - for which he received an award in 1999 - initially popularized the material among its teachers on CD-ROM. The Web Gallery of Art website will contain approximately 52,900 digital reproductions and 5,600 artist biographies in 2024.

The National Society of Hungarian Literature awarded him the Kalmár Prize in 2004.