News

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!

(mta.hu, bme.hu)

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!

(bme.hu)

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

New research group in the Institute of Physics

2025. April 01.

News item at bme.hu reports on the new Quantum Technology Research Group that has been launched in January at BME's Department of Theoretical Physics.

Web page of the HUN-REN-BME-BCE Quantum Technology Research Group: https://eik.bme.hu/~palyi/qtrg/

Link:

https://www.bme.hu/hirek/250328/bme-ttk-hun-ren-kvantummechanika-kutatocsoport-palyi-andras

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

Spring season of Science Campus

2025. March 13.

As warm-up for the Spring season of the outreach lecture series Science Campus, BME news portal bme.hu published an interview with Gábor Takács and Nándor Bokor.

Web page of the Science Campus series: https://felvi.ttk.bme.hu/hu/sciencecampus

Link:

https://www.bme.hu/hirek/250214/bme-ttk-science-campus-takacs-gabor-bokokr-nandor

Anna Takács' Bosch Scholarship

2025. January 27.

Interview with Anna Takács, BME's first-year physicist master student, on her work and research experience in the Bosch Engineering Scholarship Team (BEST) programme.

The interview in Hungarian: https://www.ttk.bme.hu/node/8848

Link:

https://www.ttk.bme.hu/node/8848

Interview with Nándor Bokor

2025. January 07.

Nándor Bokor, associate professor at the BME Institute of Physics, discusses foundations and applications of general relativity in an interview published at index.hu.

The interview in Hungarian: https://index.hu/tudomany/2025/01/04/bokor-nandor-relativitas-elmelet-bm...

Spacetime-geometry, a popular book (in Hungarian) by Nándor Bokor: https://www.typotex.hu/book/13506/bokor_nandor_terido-geometria

Link:

https://index.hu/tudomany/2025/01/04/bokor-nandor-relativitas-elmelet-bme-fizika-ter-ido-geometria/

Quantum Technology in the Institute of Physics

2024. December 12.

Thanks to a major HUN-REN research grant awarded yesterday, a new Quantum Technology Research Group will be launched on January 1st, 2025, at the BME Institute of Physics. The three-year project has a funding amount of cca. 180 million HUF. Research will be led by András Pályi, associate professor of BME Department of Theoretical Physics, in collaboration with numerous researchers of the department, as well as with Miklós Pintér, professor at the Corvinus University of Budapest.

Results of the call at the HUN-REN webpage (in Hungarian): https://hun-ren.hu/hirek/6-palyazat-reszesul-tamogatasban-a-hun-ren-kozp...