Laszlo Monostori

After graduating from university, he was employed at the Computer Science and Automation Research Institute (SZTAKI) of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, where he worked for 3 and a half years during his studies. He defended his doctoral degree in 1979 at the Faculty of Electrical Engineering of the Budapest University of Technology.

Between 1983 and 1984 he was a visiting researcher in Aachen with a scholarship from the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD). Between 1990 and 1992 he was a visiting researcher in Paderborn with a scholarship from the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation.

He obtained his PhD in engineering in 1986. In 1995, he became a private tutor at the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering of the Hungarian University of Technology. He received the Széchenyi Professorship Scholarship between 1998 and 2001. He has been a doctor of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences since 2000; he has been a corresponding member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences since 2010, and a full member since 2016.

Between 1998 and 2002, he was the head of the Integrated Mechanical Informatics Systems Department of the BME GPK, which was located at the MTA SZTAKI, and then from 2002 to 2007 (as a university professor) he was the head of the Mechanical Informatics Department of the BME, while from 2007 he was a university professor at the Department of Manufacturing Science and Technology (GTT). He is a core member of the BME Pattantyús-Ábrahám Géza Doctoral School.
Main subjects taught: Artificial neural networks and hybrid systems, Computer-integrated manufacturing, Production planning and control.

Between 1992 and 2005, he was the head of the Intelligent Manufacturing and Business Processes Research Group at SZTAKI. Since 2005, he has been the head of the SZTAKI Engineering and Business Intelligence Research Laboratory.
From 2010 to 2016, he was the director of the Fraunhofer Production Management and Informatics Project Center, operating at SZTAKI and founded jointly with the German Fraunhofer company.
Deputy Scientific Director of SZTAKI since 1995, Director since 2015.

Since 2017, he has been the Director of the Center of Excellence for Production Information and Control (EPIC CoE).

His research focuses primarily on modern production control systems and their management of complexity, change and disruption. He has achieved significant results in the fields of intelligent manufacturing processes and systems, agent-based (holonic) manufacturing, distributed production structures, digital factories and cyber-physical production systems. He has about 440 publications.

His international recognition is demonstrated by his positions as president, vice president, and memberships in prestigious scientific organizations and committees (e.g., International Institution for Production Engineering Research, International Federation of Automatic Control, International Measurement Confederation), as well as his editor-in-chief, assistant editor, and editorial board roles in major journals (e.g., CIRP Annals). He has been a member of the organizing committees of more than 120 international scientific conferences, and chaired 13 of them.

Honors: Researcher Award (SZTAKI, 11 times, 1980-2003); SZTAKI's Best PhD Supervisor Award (1998, 2000, 2004); Gábor Dénes Award (Novofer Foundation, 2004); Benedikt Ottó Award (SZTAKI, 2007); Knight's Cross of the Hungarian Order of Merit, civilian category (2010); Széchenyi Award (2016); Professor Honoris Causae Universitatis Miskolcinensis (University of Miskolc, 2011); Bánki Donát Medal (Society of Mechanical Engineering, 2019); Gillemot Award for Hungarian Mechanical Engineers (BME Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, 2020); Middle Cross of the Hungarian Order of Merit, civilian category (Hungarian State, 2023).