Dr. Varga, Zoltán

Varga Zoltán

Last modified: 25. October 2022

  Dr. Varga, Zoltán

   Professor emeritus 

  Scientific degree: CSc, 1979

  Telephone: +36 28 522000/1468

  E-mail: Varga.Zoltan@uni-mate.hu 

 

Organizational unit: Department of Mathematics and Modelling

Professional experiences

  • Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest, Faculty of Natural Sciences, Department II of Analysis (later Applied Analysis) 1968-1989. assistant, senior assistant, associate professor
  • Central University of Venezuela, Caracas, Postgraduate School of Mathematics 1982-1984 visiting professor (teaching and research directing activity)
  •  University of Agricultural Sciences (UAS), now Szent István University (SZIU), associate professor 1990-93 SZIU, full professor 1993-
  • SZIU, Institute of Mathematics and Informatics, director 1997-2010
  • SZIU, Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, Institute of Mathematics and Informatics, Department of Mathematics 1990-2014, head of department 1998-2013
  • SZIU, Professor emeritus 2013-
  • Institute of Environmental Engineering, Department of Mathematics 2014-2019
  • MATE, Hungarian University of Agriculture and Life Sciences, Institute of Mathematics and Basic Science, Department of Mathematics and Modelling 2020-
  • Teaching activity: Teaching and development of subjects and teaching materials at BSc, MSc and PhD levels, participation in ERASMUS teacher exchange programs.  
  • Collegium Budapest, an international Theoretical Biology Focus Group, senior research fellow 1996-97
  • Konrad Lorenz Institute (Austria): senior research fellow 2005
  • Several times, for shorter periods visiting research professor at the following universities: Moscow State University (Russia), Mansoura University (Egypt), Sapienza University of Rome (Italy), University of Tuscia, Viterbo (Italy), University of Almería, University of Vigo, University of Santiago de Compostela (Spain), Central University of Venezuela, Caracas, University of the Andes, Merida (Venezuela).
  • In the period 2015-18, by invitation as research professor, he spent a total of 3 months at the Sapienza University of Rome, and a total of 2 months at the Almeria University (Spain).
  • Several years of lecturing practice in English, Russian, Spanish and Italian languages.
  • More important scientific, professional and social charges (in the past or present):
    • NATIONAL LEVEL
      • member, then secretary of Biometrics and Biomathematics Committee of the Hungarian Academy of Science,
      • member of Theoretical Biology Committee of the Hungarian Academy of Science,
      • member of the Executive Committee of the Movement for Talent (enhancing equal chance to higher education of socially handicapped students)
      • secretary of the National Board of Experts in Distance Education
      • chairman of Learning Materials Committee of the National Council for Distance Education
      • member (for a period secretary) of the Board of Trustees of the Györffy István Foundation for Talent Care
    • INTERNATIONAL LEVEL
      • member of the International Biometric Society
      • coordinator of the European Pannonia TEMPUS project on Distance Education
      • director of a doctoral thesis at the University of Almería (Spain)
      • member of the OECD Educational Software Quality Group
      • member of the international scientific committees of conferences
      • member, resp. chairman of the international jury of doctoral theses at University of Pau, School of Engineering (France), University of the Andes, Merida (Venezuela),
      • member of AMASES, the (Italian) Association of Mathematics Applied to Economic and Social Sciences
      • member of iEMSs, the International Environment Modelling and Software Society
      • member of the Board of Trustees of the Foundation NEST (New European School for Theoretical Biology)
      • Editor-in-Chief of the international scientific journal Pure Mathematics and Applications, Mathematics of Optimization (published by De Gruyter Open)
      • member of the International Advisory Board of the Master course “Quantitative Analysis and Techniques of Financial Markets” at the University of Cassino and Southern Lazio, Italy
      • invited member of the research group AGR107: Protección Vegetal de Cultivos en Invernaderos, Corporación Tecnológica de Andalucía.
      • Collaborator of the Italian research project on Optimal groundwater resource management
      • invited reviewer of leading international scientific journals

Education and degrees: Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest, graduate in Mathematics and Physics 1963-1968

Eötvös Loránd University Doctor's degree (in Functional Analysis) 1971

Individual research fields and directed research programs

  • Functional analysis and Topology
  • Mathematical models in Seismology
  • Vector optimization and Differential games
  • Application of differential equations in modelling processes of chemical industry
  • Optimization of geodesic networks
  • Qualitative and quantitative analysis of control systems
  • Dynamic models in Population Biology
  • Mathematical Systems Theory and its applications in Biology
  • Evolutionary Game Theory
  • Geomathematics
  • Statistical analysis of patterns
  • Mathematical modelling of social security systems
  • Mathematical Demography
  • Exploitation of renewable resources, mathematical modelling in fisheries
  • Safety Analysis
  • Game-theoretical models in Economics and Environmental Protection
  • Game-theoretical modelling in water resource management
  • Multi-species, stage structured models of Population Dynamics
  • Mathematical modelling of solar thermal systems
  • Mathematical methods of optimization in biological pest control
  • Dynamic models in Behavior Ecology

Awards and acknowledgements:

  • Pro Universitate et Scientia (World Council of Hungarian Professors for outstandig activity in higher education) 2005
  • Golden Pen Prize (Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, Szent István University, for high quality scientific publication activity) 2010
  • Szent-Györgyi Albert Prize (national prize awarded by the Minster of Human Resources, for school founding, internationally acknowledged activity in a higher education institution) 2011
  • Professor Emeritus 2013
  • Doctor Honoris Causa of the University of Almería (Spain), for continuous outstanding joint research 2017
  • Cross of Hungarian Order of Merit (awarded by the President of the Republic, for international level research activity) 2021 

Information on doctoral education: https://doktori.hu/index.php?menuid=192&sz_ID=462&lang=EN

Publication data: https://m2.mtmt.hu/gui2/?type=authors&mode=browse&sel=10001563
Cumulative Impact Factor: 125 (15.10.2022)

Subjects taught: In recent past, Differential Equations (in English and Hungarian), in the framework of the Doctoral School of Engineering