Prof. Dr. Norbert Kroo, Past Secretary General and Vice-President of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences (HAS), member of the Scientific Council of the European Research Council, founding director of the Research Institute for Solid State Physics and Optics of HAS.  Honoris Causa Professor Doctor of the Roland Eotvos University (H). Former president of the European Physical Society and member, honorary member or doctor of several distinguished scientific institutions and universities. (Academia Europaea, Spanish Royal Academy, Jordanian Royal Scientific Society, European Academy of Science and Arts, Euroscience, etc.).. His latest decorations are: the Alexander von Humboldt Research Prize (D), the Wallis E. Lamb Award for Laser Physics and Quantum Electronics (USA), the Commander of the Order of the Lion Award (Finland),The Middle Cross with the Star (H), the Charles Hard Townes Distidguished Lecterer Award  and the Hungarian Prima Primissima Prize for Science. He is  Honorary Member of the European Physical Society. He was member of the High Level Expert Group on Digital Libraries (EU) and the European Research Advisory Board, Chair of the Research Infrastructure Expert Group of the EU.One of the founders of the World Science Conference and the World Science Forum, Hungary.

His research fields: neutron physics, laser physics and quantum optics, plasmonics. He has published more than 320 scientific papers, and is the owner of 41 patents.