Laszlo Bacsardi obtained M.Sc. degree in computer engineering at Budapest University of Technology and Economics (BME), Budapest, Hungary in 2006. He wrote his PhD thesis on the possible connection between space communications and quantum communications at the BME Department of Telecommunications in 2012. He became corresponding member of the International Academy of Astronautics (IAA) in 2019 and full member in 2022. His current research interests are in Industry 4.0, quantum computing and quantum communications. Between 2009 and 2020, he worked at the University of Sopron, Hungary (formerly known as University of West Hungary) where he was the Head of the Institute of Informatics and Economics between Nov 2012 and Aug 2018 and Associate Professor. Since 2020, he is associate professor at the Department of Networked Systems and Services, BME and Head of the Mobile Communications and Quantum Technologies Laboratory. His reserarch interest is in quantum computing, quantum communication and space communication. He has more than 100 scientific publications.