János Kornis received his MSc degree in electrical engineering from the Technical University of Budapest in 1984. He is currently an associate professor at the Department of Physics, Budapest University of Technology and Economics, teaching physics and optical metrology. His research interests include holography, speckle metrology and image processing. He is the author or coauthor of more than 90 publications. Number of independent citations: 667. He is the head of the Optical Metrology Group at Department of Physics.