Curriculum Vitae
István Zoltán was born in Miskolc, Hungary,
in 1946. He received
the M.Sc. degree in electrical engineering from the Technical
University of
Budapest, Hungary, in 1971, and the Candidate of Sciences (PhD) degree
from the
Hungarian Academy of Sciences in 1987.
Currently, he is Associate
Professor with
the Budapest University of Technology and Economics. His research
activity is
focused on self-calibrating, self-correcting instruments, including
instrument
transformer calibration, artificial impedances and impedance analysis.
He is
co-author of the book Technology of Electrical Measurements
(New York:
Wiley, 1993). He is author of the book Measurement
(Budapest: MK, 1997)
Dr. Zoltán was Hungarian
delegate of IMEKO
TC4 between 1985 and 2005. He has been Senior Member of the IEEE
Hungary
Section for four years and the Vice President of the Association of
Hungarian
Inventors for sixteen years. He won the �Jedlik Ányos Award� in 2004.
Present occupation:
Position:
associate
professor
Company:
Budapest
University of Technology and Economics
Faculty
of Electrical Engineering and Informatics
Dept.
of Measurement and Information Systems
Address:
Magyar
tudósok krt. 2.
City:
Budapest
Postal code:
1117
Country: Hungary
Phone:
+36 1 463 2057
Fax:
+36 1 463 4112
E-mail:
izoltan@mit.bme.hu
Scientific degrees:
Dr. Univ. (from the
Technical University of Budapest), 1978.
Candidate of Sciences
(the second top degree that can be obtained from the Hungarian Academy
of
Sciences by a thesis and examinations), 1987.
Educational Activities:
Lectures: Measurement
Technology (in English),
Messtechnik (in German)
Laboratory Classes: Measurement
Technology,
Design and Construction of Instruments
Supervising: graduate and
postgraduate
students
Research Fields:
Current, voltage and impedance
measurement
Calibration of instrument transformers
Standard current transformers
Artificial impedances
Self-calibrating,
self-correcting
instruments
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Research Contracts:
Development of calibration
instruments, standards and
analyzers. National Committee for Technological Development, 1991-93.
Scholarships, scientific
activity abroad:
1985 one month work at the
TETTEX AG,
Zurich, Switzerland
1986 one month work at the
TETTEX AG,
Zurich, Switzerland
1993 one month scholarship at
the TU
Karlsruhe, Germany
1994 one month guest researcher
at the PTB
Braunschweig, Germany