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There and then I met my future friends,<br />
pr<strong>of</strong>essors or pr<strong>of</strong>essionals working in<br />
lighting field, people supporting our further<br />
steps to enhance lighting knowledge and to<br />
uphold Romanian lighting development.<br />
Pr<strong>of</strong>essor SCHANDA assisted all our<br />
efforts to promote ILUMINAT conferences<br />
2001-2009 and INGINERIA ILUMINATULUI<br />
- <strong>Journal</strong> <strong>of</strong> <strong>Lighting</strong> <strong>Engineering</strong> - (since<br />
2001), with lectures and technical papers.<br />
Pr<strong>of</strong>essor Janos SCHANDA graduated<br />
in physics at the Loránd Eötvös University<br />
in Budapest (1955). His PhD thesis dealt<br />
with the “Spectroradiometric Investigation<br />
<strong>of</strong> Electro-luminescence”. After graduation<br />
he worked for three years at the Hungarian<br />
Office for Measures, then he joined the<br />
Research Institute for Technical Physics <strong>of</strong><br />
the Hungarian Academy <strong>of</strong> Sciences, where<br />
Anniversary<br />
he worked as scientific co-worker, later as<br />
head <strong>of</strong> the Department for Optics and<br />
Electronics. He retired from the Institute as<br />
Head <strong>of</strong> the Department <strong>of</strong> Optics and<br />
Electronics and joined the University <strong>of</strong><br />
Veszprém (now University <strong>of</strong> Pannonia) as<br />
pr<strong>of</strong>essor <strong>of</strong> informatics. He headed there<br />
the Department <strong>of</strong> Image Processing and<br />
Neurocomputing. Since retirement, he is<br />
Pr<strong>of</strong>essor Emeritus and heads at present the<br />
“Virtual Environment and Imaging<br />
Technologies Laboratory”.<br />
He worked for the International<br />
Commission on Illumination (CIE) as its<br />
General Secretary and later technical<br />
manager - the nineteen eighties and<br />
nineteen nineties. He functioned also in a<br />
number <strong>of</strong> honorary positions <strong>of</strong> the CIE.<br />
Between July 2007 and 2011 he served as<br />
the Vice President Technical <strong>of</strong> the<br />
Commission, chaired and chairs several<br />
Technical Committees, among others<br />
dealing with fundamentals <strong>of</strong> photometry,<br />
colorimetry and colour rendering.<br />
He is author <strong>of</strong> over 600 technical papers<br />
and conference lectures.<br />
Many happy returns to you, Janos, and a<br />
long and fruitful life!<br />
Florin POP<br />
December 1st, 2012<br />
Information from the CV <strong>of</strong> Dr. János Schanda,<br />
2012.11.18, and<br />
www.create.uwe.ac.uk/jschanda.htm.<br />
74 Ingineria Iluminatului 2012; 14, 2: 73-74