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Dr János Schanda
Professor Emeritus of the University of Veszprém, Hungary
Nádor u. 25.
H-1029 Budapest
Hungary
Tel.: +36 1 376 5394
Fax: +36 1 275 8600
e-mail: schanda@vision.vein.hu
Web: www.knt.vein.hu/
Dr. János Schanda is Professor Emeritus of the University of Veszprém, Hungary. He graduated in physics at the Loránd Eötvös University in Budapest.
His first employer was the Hungarian Office of Measures, where he dealt with photometric measurements, but he soon joined the Research Institute for Technical Physics of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, where he first dealt with ZnS electro-luminescence.
His PhD thesis dealt with the 'Spectroradiometric Investigation of Electroluminescence'. The Hungarian Academy of Sciences granted him the degree of 'Doctor of Technical Sciences' for his thesis work on colour rendering.
He retired from the Institute as Head of the Department of Optics and Electronics and joined the University of Veszprém as professor of informatics, where he headed the Department of Image Processing and Neurocomputing. Since retirement, he has become Professor Emeritus and advisor for the 'Colour and Multimedia Laboratory'.
During the nineteen eighties and nineteen nineties he worked for the International Commission on Illumination (CIE) as its General Secretary and later Technical Manager. He also worked in a number of honorary positions of the CIE. At present he is the Secretary of the Commission, and has held the post of Vice President, has chaired and continues to chair several Technical Committees, among others dealing with fundamentals of photometry, colorimetry and colour rendering. He is also currently the President of the Hungarian National Committee of the CIE.
Dr. Schanda is a member of the Optical Society of America, of The Society for Imaging Science and Technology and of several other Hungarian Societies in the fields of light and lighting and optical measurement. He served also on the Board of the International Colour Association (AIC) as its vice-president.
He is on the editorial / international advisory board of Color Res. & Appl., USA, Lighting Research & Technology, UK and Journal of Light & Visual Environment, Japan. He is author of over 500 technical papers and conference lectures.
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