Inaugural lectures by new members of the Physics and Engineering Sciences Section of Academia Europaea to contribute to the advancement and propagation of excellence in physics and engineering and to the advancement of public education in Europe.

Academia Europaea Section B3; Physics and Engineering.

Section Chair: Muhsin N. Harakeh, Class Chair: Donald Dingwell

Convenor and Chair: Muhsin N. Harakeh (KVI, Groningen, The Netherlands);

Co-convenor and local organiser: Tamás Csörgő (Wigner RCP, Budapest and EKE KRC, Gyöngyös, Hungary).

Partially supported by the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, the Wigner Research Centre for Physics of the Hungarian Academy of Scienes, and the grants EFOP 3.6.1-16-2016-00001 ("Kutatási kapacitások és szolgáltatások komplex fejlesztése az Eszterházy Károly Egyetemen") and NKTIH FK 123842 and FK 123 959 (Hungary).