Research Topics and interests
– Biomedical Engineering and Rehabilitation.
– Rehabilitation of people with neuromuscular and sensory disorders
– Biological Learning and Motor Control, Rehabilitation Robotics.
– Functional Electrical Muscle-Stimulation of Spinal Cord Injured people.
– Designer and developer of mathematical models, algorithms and software for simulation of neural   and biological processes especially for controlling limb movements.

 

 

 

Current position
Associate Professor, Head of Dept. of Information Technology and Biorobotics
University of Pecs, Faculty of Science, Pecs, HUNGARY 2013 -Adjunct assignment, Northwestern University, Dept. of Physiology, Chicago IL, USA

 

 

 

Work Experience
Associate professor, Faculty of Information Technology, Pazmany Peter Catholic University, Budapest, Hungary, 2006 –
Associate professor, Faculty of Physical Education and Sport Sciences, Semmelweis University, Budapest, Hungary, 1996 – 2012
Senior Research Associate (part time), Research Institute for Technical Physics and Materials Science of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest, 1997 – 2005
Research Fellow, KFKI Research Institute for Measurement and Computing Techniques of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences 1982 – 1996

 

 

 

Research fellowships
1984 (6 months) Hatfield Polytechnic, School of Information Sciences, UK
Research associate
1986 (5 months) Dept. of Physiology and Biophysics, New York University, School of Medicine, New York, USA
Research associate
1990-91 (14 months) CNRS, Lab. de Physiology Neurosensorielle, Paris, France
Research fellow
1991-92 (12 months) Ludwig-Maximilians University, München, Germany
Research grantee of the European Space Agency
1993 (3 months) Ludwig-Maximilians University, München, Germany
Deutsche Forschungs Gemeinschaft
1999 (8 months) Dept. of Physiology and Neuroscience, New York University, School of Medicine, New York USA
Research fellow in a NASA project
2004 (3 months) New York University, School of Medicine, USA
Fulbright Research fellowship
2013 (6 months) Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago, Robotics Laboratory, Chicago USA
Research Scholar, Hungarian-American Enterprise Scholarship Fund

 

 

 

Short scientific invitations (min 1 month)
Laboratoire de Physiologie Neurosensorielle, CNRS, Paris, France 1989
Ben Gurion University, Dept. of Mechanical Engineering, Beer Sheva, Israel 1991
Pennsylvania State University, Department of Kinesiology 1998, 2001
Institute for Working Life, University of Umea, Sweden 2000, 2002
Director of the Motor Control Summer School IX. International Society for Motor Control, Tihany, Hungary, 2012
Chair of the international conference entitled “Progress in Motor Control X.” , (The 10th meeting of the International Society of Motor Control), Budapest, Hungary, 2015

 

 

 

 

Memberships
Society for Neuroscience 1991 -International Functional Electrical Stimulation Society 1995 -International Society of Motor Control 1999 –
IEEE, Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society 2015-
Reviewer in the following journals:
Experimental Brain Research, Journal of Motor Behavior, Journal of Neurophysiology, Motor Control,
Acta Physiologica Hungarica

 

 

 

 

Contact
Email: laczkoj@gamma.ttk.pte.hu