Prof. Dr. Gábor Harsányi

Prof. Gabor Harsanyi graduated in electrical engineering from the Budapest University of Technology and Economics in 1981 and received a doctorate (dr. univ.) in Electronics Technology from the same university in 1984. Thereafter, he moved to the Microelectronics Company (MEV, Hungary) where he developed his expertise in hybrid integrated circuits and sensorics. In 1992, he received his Ph.D. from the Hungarian Academy of Sciences. Since 1984, he has been a member of the research and teaching staff of the Department of Electronics Technology, Budapest University of Technology and Economics in various positions, and was the head of department from 2003 to 2021. His main research topics are reliability physics of high density electronic interconnection systems, sensors in biomedical applications. He has published two books: “Polymer Films in Sensor Applications”, and “Sensors in Biomedical Applications”, which became part of the basic literature in sensorics. Dr. Harsanyi has conducted a large number of scientific and industrial research and development projects, published more than 300 papers, and has more than 2500 citations. He was a regular tutor of short courses organized by IMAPS, IEEE and Europractice. He was also member of the Technical Program Committee of IMAPS-Europe for several years and recipient of the IMAPS Fellowship Award in 1998. He received the highest scientific awards in Hungary, the Dennis Gabor Award in 2011, and the Szechenyi-Award in 2022.