Successful PhD Students

George Haller started PhD with Gabor Stepan in 1989, transferred to Pasadena in 1991 and received PhD in 1994 at CalTech (Pasadena, USA); 1994-1995: postdoctoral fellowship Courant Institute (NY), 1996-2002: assoc prof at Dept Appl Math Brown Univ (Providence, USA), 2003-2008: full professor in Mech Eng MIT (Cambridge, USA), 2007-2009: Director of Morgen-Stanley Analysis Budapest; 2009-2012: distinguished professor and head of Mech Eng Dept at McGill (Montral, Canada); 2012- : full professor of Mechanics at Mech Eng Dept at ETH Zurich (CH).
Eniko Enikov started PhD with Gabor Stepan in 1993, transferred to Univ of Illinois at Chicago in 1995, received PhD in 1998 there; 2004- : associate professor in Mech Eng Univ Arizona (Tuscon, USA).
Zsolt Szabo received PhD in 2002 at Budapest University of Technologies and Economics (BME); 1999: visiting researcher at Dept Mech Eng Auburn Univ (Alabama, USA), 2001-2002: Pro Progressio scholarship, 2003-2005: Bolyai scholarship, 2007- : associate professor at Appl Mech BME.
Tamas Kalmar-Nagy started PhD with Gabor Stepan in 1995, transferred to Cornell Univ (NY, USA) in 1996, received PhD in 2001 there; 2002-2005: researcher at United Technologies (USA); 2006-2011: assist. prof. in Aerospace Eng Texas A&M (USA).
Laszlo Kollar received PhD in 2002 at BME under the supervision of Gabor Stepan; 2002-2003: postdoc at Dept Math Univ of Texas at Dallas (USA), 2004-2011: researcher at Dept Mech Eng Univ of Quebec (Canada), 2012- : research fellow at School of Comp & Eng University of Huddersfield (UK).
Roland Horvath started PhD with Gabor Stepan in 1999, transferred to Auburn University (Alabama, USA) in 2001, received PhD in 2006 at Auburn; 2007- : vibration engineer at Colorado Power Station (USA).
Tamas Insperger received PhD in 2002 at BME; 2001: visiting researcher at Dept Mech Eng Washington Univ, 2003-2012: Magyary postdoctoral fellowship and Bolyai scholarships; 2007- : associate prof at Appl Mech BME, 2012: visiting researcher at Pomona College (CA, USA).
Gabor Csernak received PhD in 2003 at BME; 1999: visiting researcher at Dept Mech Eng Michigan State Univ (Lansing, USA), 2004-2007: Bolyai scholarship, 2007: Young Reserachers’ Prize at MTA, 2009- : associate prof at Appl Mech BME.
Gabor Orosz received MSc in 2002 at BME under the supervision of Gabor Stepan; after many joint publications with Stepan he received PhD in 2005 at Eng Math Univ Bristol; 2007-2009: postdoc at Mech Eng Univ Calif Santa Barbara; 2009- tenure track in Mech Eng Univ Michigan (Ann Arbor, USA).
Robert Szalai received PhD in 2006 at BME under the supervision of Gabor Stepan; 2004-2005: Fulbright Scholar at Mech Eng MIT (Cambridge, USA); 2007-2010: postdoctoral fellowship then 2010- : lecturer at Eng Math Univ Bristol (UK)
Laszlo Kovacs received PhD in 2007, supported by EU FP5 project RehaRob in 2001-2004; 2010-2012: postdoc at Dept Mech Eng, McGill University (Montreal, Canada); 2012- : associate researcher at MTA.
Kamran Ghaffari received MSc in 2008 at BME under the supervision of Gabor Stepan and Tamas Insperger; his MSc project work received 1st Prize Award at the IEEE 2008 International Student Experimental Hands-on Project Competition via Internet on Intelligent Mechatronics and Automation; 2008- : started PhD in robotics at Mech Eng McGill Univ (Montreal, Canada) under the supervision of Prof. Kovecses.
Denes Takacs received PhD in 2011 at BME; 2005: visiting scholarship at Eng Math Univ Bristol (UK), 2009: Pro Progressio research scholarship, 2010: Junior Prima Prize, 2011- : associate researcher at MTA.
Zoltan Dombovari received PhD in 2012 at BME under the supervision of Gabor Stepan; 2009-2010: research assistant at Manufacturing Automation Lab, Univ British Columbia (Vancouver, Canada); 2010-2011: research assistant at Ideko (Danobat Group, Elgoibar, Basque Country, Spain); 2013- : assistant professor at Appl Mech BME.