Our website presents the research landscape of the Jedlik Laboratories at the Faculty of Information Technology and Bionics of Pázmány Péter Catholic University, highlight-ing how information technology and life sciences are integrated in a single, coherent ecosystem. The laboratories span tightly coupled domains, including biology, computer science, mathematics, physics, electrical engineering, and info-bionics, with particular strengths in bioinformatics, systems biology, neuroscience, bionics, machine learning, and high-performance computing. Thirty-two research groups work end-to-end from theory and algorithms through hardware to laboratory, clinical, and industrial validation, forming an interdisciplinary environment where fundamental science and translational research continuously reinforce each other.
In recent years, the scientific output of the Faculty has reached a new level of quality and international visibility. More than half of our journal papers are now published in Q1 journals, and nearly one-third in D1 journals. The booklet’s list of top publications from the past five years is organized in three tiers: papers predominantly authored by Faculty members, papers led by Faculty members within wider collaborative networks, and seminal publications in which our researchers contributed to internationally leading teams. This structure reflects not only the strength of our in-house research, but also our increasing integration into high-level international collaborations.
A defining feature of the Jedlik Laboratories is the active and early integration of un-dergraduate and graduate students into research and innovation. Their participation in ambitious projects has already led to six spin-off companies emerging from the Faculty, and several further deep-tech initiatives are currently in incubation. One emblematic ex-ample is Allonic, a start-up producing bio-inspired manufacturing technology for robot hands and other biomimetic devices, which grew from student projects in our sensing robotics and prosthetics laboratories into a company operating at the forefront of inter-national robotics, attracting multi-million-euro investment and global industrial part-ners. Market-ready developments originating from the Jedlik Laboratories now range from advanced force sensors and quantum chemistry simulation software to molecular pre-screening platforms and medical ultrasound technologies.
A special section of this booklet is devoted to the bionics research lines we develop in connection with the Cybathlon, often described as the “Olympics of Bionics,” where teams from all over the world design and deploy assistive technologies for people with disa-bilities in realistic everyday tasks. Our teams translate research in anatomically correct prosthetic hands, EEG-based brain–computer interfaces, functional electrical stimulation for paraplegic cycling, and vision assistance into pilot-validated systems. In the 2024 Cybathlon in Zürich, our vision assistance team achieved first place in its discipline, out-performing leading international teams and demonstrating the real-world robustness of our application for global users. These achievements underscore that Cybathlon has be-come a flagship translational initiative for the Faculty, linking cutting-edge research in robotics, neurotechnology and human–computer interaction to tangible improvements in mobility, autonomy and quality of life.
The scientific and human vision of Prof. Tamás Roska (1940-2014), founding dean of the Faculty and first director of the Jedlik Laboratories, remains a central guiding principle for our community. His original goal was to build a strongly research-oriented Faculty in Europe that creates genuine synergy between information technology, elec-tronics, and neuroscience. This goal has been progressively realized through close collab-oration with outstanding neuroscientists and partners from research institutes, hospitals, and industrial laboratories. Twenty-five years after the Faculty was established, research in bionics, biology, electronics, and information technology has flourished, and new multi-disciplinary lines in bioinformatics, nanotechnology, robotics, artificial intelligence, and beyond-Moore computing have expanded our scope. With 32 research groups now reach-ing the physical capacity of our building, the sustained growth of the Jedlik Laboratories is a sign of the success of this vision, and of our responsibility to preserve and further de-velop Prof. Roska’s heritage by continuously strengthening the conditions for high-quality, internationally competitive research.
Prof. Attila CSIKÁSZ-NAGY
Director of Jedlik Laboratories
Vice Dean for Research and Innovation
