Endre Simonyi

Among his workplaces, the Automation Research Institute of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences (AKI) is worth highlighting, where he worked as a researcher, and the Faculty of Chemical Engineering of the Budapest University of Technology (BME), where he worked as an assistant professor.

He was a permanent forensic expert at the Institute of Forensic Technical Experts. He regularly carried out expert activities. He prepared forensic expert opinions in thousands of cases, mostly on the application of the procedure he developed and patented "Person and Object Identification Procedure using Images and Video Recordings". His functions in the Budapest Chamber of Forensic Experts are also related to this. He has been the head of the Electrical, Electronic and Infocommunications Department since its establishment; he has been a member of the Ethics Committee since 2009. He is the President of the Colonels' Club.

As an instructor, he taught a subject he developed himself to electrical engineering students at BME for ten years. He worked as a lecturer for 6 years on a professional engineering course and taught the subject he also developed to IT students at the Neumann János Faculty of Informatics of Óbuda University (ÓE) for 6 years. He also taught a subject (also developed by him) at the Deák Ferenc Further Education Institute of Pázmány Péter Catholic University (PPKE), to forensic law students. Both subjects were based on his very extensive expert knowledge.

He has also worked as a professional journalist. He is the owner and editor-in-chief of Rendezvényrádió és Televízió, which he founded in 2009 and publishes event reports and press conferences uncut. He is the vice president of the Journalists' Association of Scientific and Industrial Newspapers.

He patented his first invention in 1964. He has been active as an inventor ever since. In 2007, he filed ten invention applications on various topics. He presented some of his inventions at the Genius Europe Exhibition in 2009. The subject of his latest invention is a chemical-based optical process for utilizing solar radiation, enabling unlimited energy storage, and improving the efficiency of irradiation.

As a scientific researcher, he was the first in Hungary to apply the later chaos theory in the industrial field. His publications on this were published in the foreign language publication BME Polytechnika Periodica in 1966 and 1967. Later, he continued his activities in other fields; the result of this was the so-called blood gas analysis evaluation program, with which the work could be done on a simple programmable computer. Due to the interesting nature of this, in 1975 he was one of the eight European invited speakers at the World Congress of Clinical Chemists.

He entered the Ministry of Culture's school computer competition with a microcomputer he had designed; however, the computer remained a prototype, as the competition was won by the HT-1080/Z.

Member of the Hungarian Computer Builders' Association (NJSZT); leader of the Hungarian Computer Builders' Club (HCC). He founded the first computer builders' club between Tokyo and Berlin. He also played an important role in the editorial board of Mikroszámítógép Magazin.

In recognition of his work, the National Society of Hungarian Literature awarded him the Lifetime Achievement Award in 2018.