BME Establishes International Scientific Advisory Board

BME's International Scientific Advisory Board held its first online meeting the other day. The aim of its establishment is to promote the international scientific integration of the university and to contribute to increasing its scientific achievements, excellence, and competitiveness.

The members of the council, which meets at least once per academic year, are 

internationally recognised individuals engaged in outstanding scientific and/or scientific organizational activities 

who are not employees of the university. The members, appointed by the rector for a three-year term, are expected to provide advice for deepening BME's international relations and increase its competitiveness, to contribute to the dissemination of best practices, to review BME's strategic documents, to make recommendations as well as to take a position on strategic issues at the rector's request.

The members include American, Austrian, British, French, German, and Swiss experts, and physics Nobel Prize winner Ferenc Krausz.

The members, their current places of work, and their fields of expertise are as follows:

Michael A. Cusumano (MIT) – entrepreneurship, strategic management;

Leroy Gardner (Imperial College) – structural engineering;

Manfred Kaltenbacher (TU Graz) – theoretical electrical engineering, materials science, applied mechanics;

Krausz Ferenc (Max Planck Institut, Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich) – attophysics, laser science;

Jens Marklof (School of Mathematics University of Bristol) – mathematical physics, number theory;

Muriel Médard (MIT) – network coding, information theory;

Regis Reau (Air Liquide) – phosphorus chemistry, supramolecular chemistry;

Christian Schönenberger (University of Basel) – nanotechnology, quantum technology;

Frank Fitze (TU Dresden) – 5G/6G, molecular and quantum communication.

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