Title:

Ph.D., D.Sc.,
Member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences

Name:

CSURGAY, Árpád István

Positions:

Professor at the Budapest University of Technology and Economics,and at the Pázmány Péter Catholic University, Budapest, Hungary
 

Fellow of the IEEE (Institute of the Electrical and Electronic Engineers), N.Y.,

Member of Academia Europeae, London., England

Member of European Academy of Arts and Sciences, Salzburg.

E-mail:

csu@evtsz1.evt.bme.hu, Arpad.Csurgay.1@nd.edu

Phone:

+36 1 463-1904

Fax:

+36 1 463-3189

Home: Budapest, Tanaácsház utca 17, Hungary, H-1215  (Phone:+36-1-276 4845)

Csurgay Árpád István was born in 1936 in Budapest.
Wife: Csurgay Árpádné, Ildikó, Associate Professor at the Budapest University of Technology and Economics, and at the Pázmány Péter Catholic University, Budapest, Hungary (majoring in Culture History of Physics)
Children: Krisztina (1963), Eszter (1967), Péter (1970)
Grandchildren: Júlia (1989), Péter (1991), Kata (1993), Boróka (1995), Gábor (1996), János (1998), András (2000), Zsombor (2000).

Studies:

  • Graduated at the Technical University of Budapest, Communication Engineering (1959))
  • Ph.D. from the Technical University of Budapest, Circuit and System Theory (1964). Thesis: "Synthesis of Lumped-Distributed Circuits" (in Hungarian)
  • Postdoctoral Fellow at the Electrophysics Department of the Polytechnic Institute of Brooklyn, N.Y. (1966-67)
  • D.Sc. at the Hungarian Academy of Sciences (1973) Thesis: "Postulational Approach to Active-Distributed Systems: Modeling - Analysis - Realizability"

First job: research fellow at the Telecommunication Research Institute (TKI), engaged in design of microwave circuits for radio relay equipments.
First book: Microwave passive circuits (in Hungarian), as a textbook for postgraduate studies at the Technical University of Budapest (1964)
First teaching experience: electromagnetics and electronphysics (1961-1986), and postgraduate lectures on distributed circuits (1963-1966).

Affiliations:

1959 - 1979

Research associate, later director of research at the Telecommunication Research Institute (TKI).

1980 - 1985

Reseach fellow at the Computer and Automation Research Institute of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences.

1987 -

Part-time Professor at the Technical University of Budapest.

1985 - 1990

Elected Deputy Secretary General of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences.

1990 - 1993

Reelected as General Deputy Secretary General of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences.

1993 -

Full Professor at the Technical University of Budapest.

1994 April to June

Gastprofessor, Johann Wolfgang Goethe Universität, Frankfurt am Main, Institut für Angewandte Physik.

1995 May to July

Gastprofessor, Technische Universität München, Lehrstuhl für Netzwrktheorie und Schaltungstechnik.

1996 - 1997

Melchor Chair Visiting Professor at the University of Notre Dame, Indiana, USA

1998 – 2003

Part-time Visiting Professor at the Center for Nano Science and Technology, University of Notre Dame, Indiana, USA

Lectures in 1993-2003:

  • Physics of Information Technology (Undergraduate course at the Pázmány Péter Catholic University)
  • Physical Electronics (Undergraduate course at the Budapest University of Technology and Economics)
  • Introduction to Nanoelectronics (Graduate Course)
  • The Circuit Paradigm in Nanoelectronics (Graduate Course)
  • Quantum Phenomena in Computing and Signal Processing (Research Seminars)

International scientific activities:

1972 -

Member of the Scientific and Steering Committees of the ECCTD (European Conference of Circuit Theory and Design) series.

1973 -

Deputy Editor of the International Journal of Circuit Theory and its Applications (John Wiley and Sons, Chichester, England).

1986 - 1993

Council Member of the International Institute of Applied System Analysis (IIASA), Laxenburg, Austria.

1987 -

Member of the IEEE (Institute of the Electrical and Electronic Engineers), N.Y.

1992 -

Fellow of the IEEE

1989 -

Member of Academia Europeae, London.

1991 - 1994

Council Member of Academia Europeae, London

1990 -

Member of European Academy of Arts and Sciences, Salzburg.

Awards:

  • Silver and Gold Medal for Patents (1965, 1973)
  • Puskás Tivadar Award (1971)
  • Award of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences (1971)
  • Roland Eötvös Award (1975)
  • Honoris Causa Pro Scientia (1989)
  • Cross of Honour of the Hungarian Republic (1993)
  • Péter Pázmány Award (1995)
  • Széchenyi Award of the Hungarian Republic (1998)
  • Simonyi Károly Award of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences (2002)