!!!Karoly Skala [{Image src='Skala.jpg' caption='Professor Karolj Skala' alt='' height='170' class='image_left' popup='false' width='151'}] Karolj Skala is Scientific Advisor at Ruđer Bošković Institute and Profesor at the University of Zagreb __CV of Professor Dr. Karoly Skala__ Education *1974 - Graduate from the Faculty of Electrical Engineering *1974 - Employment at the Ruder Boskovic Institute *1979 - Master's degree in electrical engineering in Zagreb *1983 - PhD in Electrical Engineering in Zagreb *1983 - Head of the Laboratory of Electronics at the Institute Ruder Boskovic, a former Department LAIR *1997 - Head of the Laboratory for Optoelectronics and hypermedia systems in the Department of Electronics RBI *1999 - Elected advisor RBI *2001 - Appointed Head of the Computer Center RBI *2003 - Head of the Center for Informatics and Computing RBI *2003 - Appointedd Full Professor at the Faculty of Graphic Arts in Zagreb Fields of science *Wireless Communications Specific research interests *Optoelectronic systems *Distributed systems Projects Conducting national research projects and programs: * Visual interfaces and technology transfer knowledge, 1996-2002 * Detection of non-stationary sources and distributed information processing, 2002-2006 * Methods of scientific visualization 2007-2010 Program: *Distributed Computing and Visualization 2007-2013 (4 projects, 4 institutions, 2 Zagreb, Rijeka 1, Split 1) Technological projects *Head STIRP the CRO GRID applications 2004-2007 *CRO GRID Infrastructure, STRIP 43/2002, coordinator of the IRB on the project, from 2004 to 2007 Management of IT projects *Network control and IC management of cluster computer, IT project, MST 2003 *participant in the European Community project COST 254 and COST 276 in Croatian Bilateral projects: *Development of New Technologies Grid for Advanced Scientific and Engineering Application, Institute for Software Science of the University of Vienna, Austria 2004 *Inter Institutional testbed for e-Science applications, Jozef Stefan Institute, Ljubljana, 2006 *Parallel Application Development on Grid, SZTAKI, Budapest, HU-CRO bilateral project, the 2005th Leading EU FP6 / 7 projects *Grid Enabled Infrastructure Development, EU F6 Contract No: 002356 Commission of the European Communities, Brussels, 2004-2006. *CenVis - Centre for Scientific Visualisation, EU FP6, 2007-2009 *IVAB - Interactive Visual Analysis of Bio-signals, the EU FP6, 2007 *SEE-GRID - South Eastern European Grid-enabled eInfrastructure Development, 2004-2006 EU FP6 *SEE-GRID-2 - South Eastern European Grid-enabled eInfrastructure Development 2, 2006-2008 *SEE GRID SCI - SEE-GRID eInfrastructure for regional eScience, EU FP7, 2008-2010 *DARIAH - Digital Research Infrastructure for the Arts and Humanities, EU FP7, 2008-2010 *EGEE-II - Enabling Grids for E-science-II, EU FP6, 2006-2008 *EGEE-III - Enabling Grids for E-science-III, EU FP7, 2008-2010 *AIS DC - Application Information Services for Distributed Computing Environments, EU FP7, 2011-2015 Awards and honors *Medal Arany Janos Hungarian Academy of Sciences, 2010 *Award INNOVATION SEE 2010 *Award Director IRB 2010 *Medal for achievement in teaching College of Business Administration, 2011 Memberships [{Image src='IRB logo-novi bez viska pozadine.png' caption='Ruđer Bošković Institute' alt='' height='120' class='image_right' width='172'}] *Member of the Croatian Academy of Engineering *Associate member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences *Member of Public Body of Hungarian Academy of Sciences *Member of the Scientific Council for research infrastructure at the Academy *Executive board of MIPRO *European Research Infrastructure Consortium, National Representative *EU FP7 Research Infrastructures Programme Committee Member, National Representative [{Metadata Suchbegriff=' ' Kontrolle='Nein'}]