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New corresponding members of the Academy

2025. May 18.

BME physicists Ferenc Simon and Levente Tapasztó has been elected as corresponding members of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences (HAS).

 

Ferenc Simon is the professor at BME Institute of Physics. His fous are is condensed-matter physics, spectroscopy, and quantum technology. He has developed a range of novel experimental setups, and applied those for medical and semiconductor research. Ferenc has received an ERC Starting Grant as well as a Momentum Grant from the HAS.

 
Levente Tapasztó is the scientific advisor of the HUN-REN Centre for Energy Research, and the research professor of BME Faculty of Natural Sciences. He develops novel nanotechnology methods to tune the properties of graphene and other two-dimensional materials. He has received international and Hungarian excellence research grants, such as a Momentum Grant (2014) and an ERC Starting Grant (2016). His laboratory hosts the scanning tunneling microscope experiment used in the lab training of BME physics students.
 
Congratulations!
 
 
Link: 
https://www.bme.hu/hirek/250507/mta-kozgyules-akademikus-tagok-bme

Academy Award for András Halbritter

2025. May 12.

András Halbritter, professor and deputy head of BME Institute of Physics receives the Academy Award of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences. The recognition was awarded for Prof. Halbritter's dedicated and wide-ranging activities, as well as outstanding achievements, in research, education, outreach, as well as management and administration. Congratulations!
 
 
Link: 
https://www.bme.hu/hirek/250509/mta-akademiai-dij-halbritter-andras-bme-ttk

APS Outstanding Referee: Balázs Dóra

2025. April 01.

Balázs Dóra, professor of BME's Department of Theoretical Physics, receives the Outstanding Referee honor from the American Physical Society.

 

Instituted in 2008, the Outstanding Referee program expresses appreciation for the essential work that anonymous peer reviewers do for APS's journals. This year, 160 of the cca. 50.000 active reviewers were selected and and honored as Outstanding Referees.

Congratulations, Balázs!

 

APS Outstanding Referee: https://journals.aps.org/OutstandingReferees

 

Web page of Balázs Dóra: https://dtp.physics.bme.hu/Dora_Balazs?language=en

 

Link: 
https://journals.aps.org/OutstandingReferees

Introducing the academy candidates in physics

2025. March 13.

Ferenc Simon, Gábor Takács, and Levente Tapasztó, candidates for membership of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, publish outreach articles in a special issue of Fizikai Szemle. All thre articles (in Hungarian) are freely available from the website of the March issue of Fizikai Szemle.

 

Ferenc Simon (professor, BME Faculty of Natural Sciences, Institute of Physics, Department of Physics)
Spintronics: Introduction and applications

 

Gábor Takács (professor, head of institute, BME Faculty of Natural Sciences, Institute of Physics, Department of Theoretical Physics)
Do closed quantum systems achieve balance? – When the “light cone” closes

 

Levente Tapasztó (scientific advisor, HUN-REN EK; research professor, BME Faculty of Natural Sciences)
Light trapped in graphene

 

Link: 
https://fizikaiszemle.elft.hu/szemle/138

Popular article on the 2024 physics Nobel prize

2025. February 02.

Popular article from BME researchers on the 2024 physics Nobel prize and related memristor applications published in the January issue of Fizikai Szemle.

 

Fehérvári János Gergő, Balogh Zoltán, Halbritter András Ernő
Neuromorphic computing, or how to turn the 2024 Nobel Prize in Physics into change?
Fizikai Szemle, January 2025, p 13-19

 

The Hungarian version of the article is available for free on the website of Fizikai Szemle.

 

 

 

Link: 
https://fizikaiszemle.elft.hu/szemle/136

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