Sándor Selinger

Between 1968 and 1971 he was a high school teacher in Banat, and then between 1971 and 1974 he was a physicist at the Terapia pharmaceutical company in Cluj-Napoca. Between 1974 and 1996 he worked as a senior research fellow at the Software-ITC computer science research institute in Cluj-Napoca.

From 1994, as the director of the Transylvanian Consultation Center (EKK) of the Gábor Dénes College (GDF), he organized the outsourced departments in several Transylvanian cities (Cluj-Napoca, Oradea, Sepsiszentgyörgy, Odense, Târgu Mureș, Szatmárnémeti, Csíkszereda). The departments operated until 2010; the diplomas of more than a thousand students were naturalized by the Romanian Ministry of Education.

He defended his PhD thesis at the Babes-Bolyai University of Science and Technology (BBTE) in Cluj-Napoca in 1984. Since 2004, he has been an honorary associate professor at the Budapest University of Technology and Economics (BME).

Between 1994 and 2010, he was the managing director of SYSCOMP-SZÁMALK (a member of Számalk Zrt.), a Romanian-Hungarian mixed company, and the chairman and director of the board of trustees of the Gábor Dénes Foundation (GDA) based in Cluj-Napoca. Since 2002, he has been an external member of the public body of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences. He is also a member of the Cluj-Napoca Academic Committee and the Mathematics, Informatics and Astronomy Committee of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences.

From 2007 he was the director of the Institute of Engineering and Basic Sciences (MAI) of the GDF – until his retirement in 2010. From 2007 he was a member of the board of the Hungarian Geoinformatics Society (HUNAGI). Between 1990 and 1994 he was the first president of the Transylvanian Hungarian Engineering and Scientific Society (EMT) based in Cluj-Napoca, and one of the founders of the society. In 1990 he initiated the professional cooperation between the EMT and the NJSZT. In 1991 he participated in the launch of the student magazine Physics, Informatics, Chemistry Foundations (FIRKA).

It has significant achievements in spreading computer culture among Hungarians in Romania and in promoting the participation of young people in the labor market.

His research areas include: liquid crystals, computer image processing, texture analysis, and geospatial information. His publications are in Hungarian, Romanian, and English. They include 4 scientific monographs, 8 books and book chapters, higher education notes, and about 60 studies and other publications.

His awards include: Pro Scientia Transsylvanica - the Transylvanian Science Award (EMT, 2000); Gábor Dénes Award (GDF, 2002); and the János Arany Medal of the Presidential Committee for Hungarian Science Abroad (2017).