Personal information
* Born in 1943 in Kecskemét (Hungary).
* Father: Ernõ Molnár teacher (died 1994), mother: Mária Tarics (died 2012), brother: Ferenc, sister: Ágnes.
* Married (1968) to Márta Kováts, 2 sons: Csaba (1973), Zsolt (1975).

Office address:
Professor Emeritus at Department of Geometry, Institute of Mathematics, Budapest University of Technology and Economics (BME) H-1521 Budapest.
Tel: (00361) 4632645, Fax: (00361) 4631050.
E-mail: emolnar@math.bme.hu.
Permanent address: Selmeci u. 20. H-1034 Budapest, Hungary.

Education:
Studied mathematics, physics and descriptive geometry at the Eötvös Loránd University of Budapest (ELUB), Faculty of Natural Sciences from 1961 to 1966. Diploma of high-school teacher in 1966.

Scientific degrees
* Doctor of natural sciences in geometry at ELUB 1970 with dissertation: Conic sections of hyperbolic geometry by reflections.
* Candidate of mathematical sciences in geometry at the Hungarian Academy of Science, 1976 with dissertation: The concept of reflection and its application in the absolute geometry.
* Doctoral Dissertation submitted to the Hungarian Academy of Science in 1990 with title: Polyhedron models of discrete groups and space forms.
* Habilitation at BME in 1995.

Employment:
* Assistant professor at ELUB at Department of Descriptive and Projective Geometry (1966--78). Teaching descriptive and projective geometry and problem solving.
* Associate professor from 1978.
* Leading teacher of Scientific Circle of Teacher Students Math.-Phys. (1977--89).
* Author of several scripts and text-books.
* 1984--90: Associate professor at ELUB at Dept. of Geometry. Teaching geometry and differential geometry.
* From 1990 Associate Professor at BME at Dept. of Geometry.
* July 1992 -- June 2007: Chief of the department.
* From 1996 Professor at BME Institute of Mathematics Department of Geometry.
* From 11th January 2013 retired.

Languages:
Hungarian mother tongue.
Russian (1972).
German (1974).
English (1978).
Lectures at study trips and scientific conferences.

RESEARCH

Scientific topics:
* Geometric transformation groups and their applications.
* Crystallography, discrete and differential geometry.
* Algorithms for space tilings.
* Bolyai-Lobachevskian hyperbolic geometry.
* Orbifolds and manifolds.

Besides 2 defended and 1 submitted dissertations he published cca 89 research papers and 50 other articles.
* List of publications
* Selected publications
* Publication list with citations (till October 8, 2013)

Supervised 12 promotions. His aspirants:
* Sándor Szabó BME Dept. of Math. Fac. of Civil Engineering, Bahrein University, Janus Pannonius University of Pécs,
* Bernd Wernicke (Erfurt),
* Marica Sarac (Belgrade),
* Milica Stojanovic (Belgrade),
* Jenõ Szirmai (BME),
* István Prok (BME),
* Attila Bölcskei (BME),
* Eleonóra Stettner,
* László Németh,
* Eszter Horváth
defended their PhD dissertations.

* 1986--90 taking part in 2 Scientific working groups,
-- led by Károly Böröczky OTKA 1238 (86)
-- and by János Szenthe OTKA 424 (86).
* Co-chief (with Marta Szilvási-Nagy) of scientific working group -- OTKA 1615 (1991)
-- and OTKA T 20498 (1996) Complex computer geometric modelling.
* Chief of OTKA T 7351 (1993) Algorithms for D-symbols.
* From 1989 guest researches at University of Bielefeld, collaboration with Andreas Dress, Daniel Huson.
* Guest professor at TU Vienna (1995) and at RWTH Aachen (1996).
* Organization of international conferences Konstruktive Geometrie 1993, 95, 98, 2001, 2005.
* International projects: DAAD, Zagreb, Ljubljana, Wien, Novosibirsk. * From 1970 reviewer of Zentralblatt für Mathematik.
* Member of the editorial board
-- of Beiträge zur Algebra und Geometrie (Contributions to Algebra and Geometry) (1992)
-- of Journal of Geometry and Graphics (1997),
-- of KoG (Zagreb) (2003).
-- of Matematicki Vesnik (2013).
-- Symmetry: Culture and Science (2013).
* Member
-- of János Bolyai Mathematical Society,
-- of Hungarian Society of Design Teacher,
-- of Hungarian Society of Geometry and Graphics.