Gábor Stépán

Gábor Stépán is a distinguished academic affiliated with the Budapest University of Technology and Economics, Department of Mechanical Engineering. He has held visiting professorships at prestigious institutions including the California Institute of Technology (1994-1995, Fullbright scholarship), University of Bristol (1996), and Université Pierre et Marie Curie (2008). His research focuses on nonlinear dynamics, vibration control, and mechanics of material processing.

He has organized major international conferences such as the 2010 IUTAM Symposium on Dynamics Modeling and Interaction Control, and the 2006 European Solid Mechanics Conference. Stépán serves on editorial boards of journals like Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, Physica D, and Journal of Nonlinear Science.

His professional activities include roles as conference chairman, session organizer, and scientific committee member for events in nonlinear dynamics, control systems, and materials engineering. Notable past roles include Chief Editor of Periodica Polytechnica (1993-1994).