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.
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