László Zombory

Since graduating from university, he has been working at the Department of Theoretical Electricity of the Faculty of Electrical Engineering (VIK) of the Budapest University of Technology (BME), then at the Department of Microwave and its successor: he was a lecturer until 1976, associate professor until 1989, and has been a university professor since then. He received his doctorate in 1972 and defended his MTA doctoral title in 1989.
He was the head of the department between 1990 and 2007, and the dean of the Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Informatics from 1988 to 1994. Since 2012, he has been a professor emeritus at the Department of Broadband Communications and Electrical Engineering.

He was the developer of new subjects and, as dean, initiated the development of the new modular curriculum of the Faculty of Electrical Engineering. He is the author or co-author of several notes, textbooks, monographs, numerous articles and conference presentations. Among these, “Electromagnetic Fields” and “Theoretical Electricity”, co-authored with Károly Simonyi and published in 12 editions, were the two basic textbooks of the Faculty’s education for a long time. “Machine Analysis of Electromagnetic Fields” and “Physiological Effects and Biomedical Applications of Radiofrequency Radiation” are the first Hungarian-language versions of the given topics.
He was the leader and participant of several successful research projects. For a decade, he was the head of the BME habilitation committee and doctoral council, and the chairman of the committee developing the training requirements for the electrical engineering major. He was a member of the Hungarian Higher Education Accreditation Committee (MAB) and its predecessors' Electrical Engineering and Informatics Committee.
He was the chairman of the technical committee of the Hungarian Scholarship Committee between 1992 and 2007. From 2005 to 2007, he was the founder and chairman of the National Doctoral Council (ODT), established by the Higher Education Act.

He participated in a longer study trip to the Ioffe Institute of Physics and Technology of the Russian Academy of Sciences (Leningrad), the Polytechnic Institute of New York, and Stanford University (California, USA).

Starting in 1980, he worked for nearly a decade at the National Technical Development Committee (OMFB) as a part-time expert, senior associate, and then as an advisor to the vice president.
From 1992, he was the founding president of the Hungarian Higher Education and Public Collections Network (Hungarnet) Association.

Between 1993 and 1996, he was the first chairman of the board of directors of Antenna Hungária Rt., and between 1996 and 2000, he was the first chairman of the National Communications and Informatics Council (NHIT).
Between 2002 and 2005, he was the president and then honorary president of the Hungarian Association of Information Technology and Information Science (HTE). He was the editor-in-chief and later the chairman of the editorial board of the journal Information Technology.
He is a member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences' public body and the Telecommunication Scientific Committee. He was the secretary of the Hungarian National Committee of the URSI (International Radiological Union), and then its president between 1997 and 2012. Between 1992 and 1997, he was the Hungarian representative of "Telecommunication" in the COST cooperation of the European Commission operating in the field of scientific and technical research.
Senior Member of the IEEE (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers); holder of the IEEE Fellow degree.

His awards: Pollák – Virág Award (HTE, 1985); BME Memorial Medal (1994); Széchenyi Memorial Medal (1998); Tivadar Puskás Award (HTE, 2002); Károly Simonyi Award (Charles and Lisa Simonyi Fund for the Arts and Sciences, 2003); János Neumann Award (Ministry of Transport, Information and Communications and Water, 2004); Hungarnet Award (HUNGARNET, 2009); Pro Facultate Award (BME VIK, 2009); Officer's Cross of the Hungarian Order of Merit (Hungarian State, 2012); József Eötvös Wreath (MTA, 2013).