Dr. Csaba Balázsi is Scientific Advisor of the HUN-REN Centre for Energy Research, Centre of Excellence of Hungarian Academy of Sciences (HAS). He received PhD in Materials Science from University of Miskolc, Hungary in 2000. He was a visiting scientist at Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan in 2001, University of Limerick, Ireland and Istanbul Technical University, Turkey in 2003.

He is President of Fine Ceramics section of the Hungarian Scientific Society of Silicate Industry (SZTE) and Representative of SZTE in International Ceramic Federation (ICF), Member of Council Board and Industrial Working Group Leader, European Ceramic Society (ECerS), Member of the American Ceramic Society (ACerS), Engineering Science Section Committee Bolyai Grants Evaluation (HAS). He served as Secretary and Board Member of the Hungarian Society of Materials Science (MAE), Executive Committee Member of Federation of European Materials Societies (FEMS), Member of PEC (ECerS) and Steering Committee Member of Energy Materials Industry Research Innitiative (EMIRI), Brussels. He organized several international conferences, was acting as chair of CMCEE14, 2024 (Budapest), ECERS2017 (Budapest), FEMS Junior EUROMAT2018 (Budapest), symposium co-organizer in ICACC (ACerS) Daytona Beach, USA, EMRS Fall Meeting Symposia (Warsaw) with topics on ceramics based nanocomposites in energy and environmental systems and co-chair of WoCeram2019 (JECS Trust, Budapest). He holds several awards, fellowships: Bolyai Plaqett (HAS), Fellow of the European Ceramic Society (ECerS), Gabor Dennis award (Novofer Foundation), ACerS Global Amassador, Fellow of the American Ceramic Society (ACerS) and Academician of the World Academy of Ceramics.