Cecília Lányi Sik

In 1981-1982, he worked as an operator at the Cybernetics Laboratory of the József Attila University of Szeged (JATE), and then between 1984 and 1987, he worked as a program design mathematician at the Veszprém County State Construction Company. He has been working at the University of Veszprém (VE, and its legal successor, the Pannonian University, PE) since 1987. He obtained his doctorate degree at the VE in 1993, and his PhD degree at the PE in 2000. He habilitated there in 2017. He is currently an associate professor at the Virtual Environments and Photonics Research Laboratory of the PE. He is a member of the National Doctoral Council.

Since 1999, he has been on 10 study trips of varying lengths. For example, in 1999, he spent a total of four months at two institutions: Fachhochschulstudiengänge St.Pölten (St. Pölten, Austria) and the Technische Universität (Vienna) with TEMPUS support. In 2007, he spent a month at several Chinese universities with the support of the Hungarian Scholarship Committee.

Since 2001, he has been the national leader of 12 international, including Chinese cooperation projects, and FP6-FP7 projects (FP: Framework Programme for Research and Technological Development). He is a member of the editorial boards of several international professional organizations and journals. In 2009, he was the secretary of the European Design for All e-Accessibility Network. Since 2001, he has organized six international conferences in Hungary. In the past 20 years, he has been the supervisor of more than 170 graduate students and 55 students of the Scientific Student Association (TDK).

His scientific activities cover two areas: color theory, multimedia, and the implementation of technologies primarily supporting virtual reality (Human–computer interaction, HCI). He initiated both virtual reality and assistive technology developments and research in Hungary.

Number of publications in English: 17 book chapters, 67 peer-reviewed and refereed articles, 130 peer-reviewed publications in international conference proceedings, in addition to editing 10 English-language books and conference proceedings.

Awards: AAATE Diamond-award (Association for the Advancement of Assistive Technology in Europe – AAATE, 2015); Hungarian Higher Education Commemorative Plaque (Ministry of National Resources, 2016); Kalmár Award (NJSZT, 2016); King Salman Award for Disability Research (Saudi Arabia, 2018).