Dr István Jankovics

Director of the Gothard As­tro­phys­i­cal Ob­ser­va­to­ry of the Loránd Eötvös University, Honorary Professor of the University of Pannonia, and Member of the Committee on Astronomy and Space Research of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences.

Dr László Z. Karvalics

Founding director, BME-UNESCO Information Society Research Institute, associate professor, Head, Department of Library and Human Information Science, University of Szeged. Teaching and research on social impacts of information technology, comparative analysis of national information strategies, information history and education in the information age. National representative, UNESCO Information for All Program (IFAP). Key person of the Hungarian Information Society strategy making. Founding editor of the Hungarian language Information Society quarterly. Has written books, studies and plenty of small articles for the dissemination of the "Information Society thinking" and Internet-culture.

Zoltán E. Kovács

Zoltán graduated (MSc) in mathematics, physics and astronomy at Eötvös Loránd University, Hungary in 1981. He wrote his thesis on cosmology but nowadays he is interested in the effects of the Sun on Earth (space weather and its geophysical, meteorological, and biological effects on our planet, solar-human relations). In his childhood he started to make his first observations as an amateur astronomer (estimating the magnitude of variable stars, visual and photographic observations of meteors). Nowadays he is observing the Sun in H-alpha spectrum – apart from the theoretical work. Zoltán has been a presenter of popular science, especially astronomy and space research since his secondary school years (since 1973), and he has been writing theses and publications as a university student since 1976. He used to lead astronomy clubs throughout Hungary. Many members of those clubs became well qualified professionals, even astronomers later. During the former decades he educated talented young adults. Zoltán taught astronomy at college too. He is director of the Kecskemét Planetarium since 1986. He used to be charter member of the Hungarian Astronautical Society and was the very first secretary of the local group in Kecskemét. His primary speciality is the methodology of astronomy and demonstration. Numerous visual aids were designed and produced by him. By his proposal Solar system sculptures were produced and can be seen in Kecskemét since 2001. He participated at the WONDERS European Science Festival (Nottingham and Lisbon, 2006) with his self-made demonstrative aids and presentations. Several times he organized international symposiums on astronomical methodology. The Carpatica Planetarium Association was also founded by his initiative.

Dr Béla Lukács

Theoretical physicist, cosmologist, thinker and lecturer. He graduated as a physicist at the Eötvös University in 1970, habilitated in 1988 and currently works at the KFKI Research Institute for Particle and Nuclear Physics as science advisor. His fields of research include general relativity, cosmology, heavy ion physics, voice recognition and color theory as well. He was decorated with the Physics Award of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences in 1995. Member of the Committee on Astronomy and Space Research of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences. He has been a successful public lecturer as well, especially since his appearance in the Hungarian talkshow 'Friderikusz most!' that became a highly successful series of interviews about physics, astronomy and related subjects.

Pál Gábor Vizi

Founder

Born in Budapest, Hungary. Electrical Engineer, Safety Technology Engineer MSc; PhD aspirant. English and Russian exams. Since 1988 Paul has been working for Hungarian Academy of Sciences KFKI RMKI, at the Department of Space Technology as developing engineer. System engineer of Dep. of Space Technology. Worked on Russian Mars Rover 1989-1992, Mars '96, Cassini Caps EGSE 1991-1997, Rosetta EGSE equipments 2000-2004, onboard PCBs, Venus Aspera, etc. as CAD/CAM leader. Made the first in situ video from a comet core, the core video of the Comet Halley (2004). Hungarian narrator of ESA Landing on Titan short movie. Associate editor of “Comet Trails” movie (2006). Discovered the first water-ice drops on Mars in Phoenix technical photos (2008.06.04.) Board Member of Hungarian Astronautical Society. Founder of GalileoWebcast (2009) and Team PuliSpace (2010). Supporter of the competition Hungarians on the Mars (Magyarok a Marson) and Chairman of the Jury (2006-); also supports the MaSat Team, which consists of students of the Budapest University of Technology and Economics (BME), who build the first Hungarian Satellite MaSat-1 (2010). Educational activities in several radio, tv broadcast, internet portals and webcasts.