Bela Markus is a land surveyor, M.Sc., Ph.D.,
professor of Geoinformatics, and director of the
College of
Geoinformatics,
University of West
Hungary. He has 30 years teaching experience in surveying, 15
years in teaching GIS and 10 years in development and organization of open,
distance learning professional courses for land administration.
Prof. Markus has over sixty published papers on
various aspects of using GIS. He is actively involved in many national and
international academic programmes, is chairman of the Hungarian
UNIGIS Course Board, chairman of the National Committee of
Association of Hungarian Surveyors and Cartographers, chairman of the
Agricultural Experts Committee Surveying Session at the Ministry of
Agriculture. He is chairing FIG WG2.4
(Knowledge Transfer in SIM) and the Hungarian Scientific Committee of COST G9
“Modelling Real Property Transactions”.
Prof. Markus is Council member of Association of GI
Laboratories in
Europe (AGILE) and also the Executive Committee of EUROPACE
(Leuven,
Belgium). He is member of Board of Directors of FIG
Foundation.
In 2003-2004 he is advising
Central European land
Knowledge
Center (Budapest,
Hungary) as an
International Expert on Knowledge Transfer.
