List of supporters:

Prof. Dick Bedeaux
Leiden Institute of Chemistry, the Netherlands
Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences

Prof. Vito Antonio Cimmelli
Associate Professor of Mathematical Physics,
University of Basilicata, Potenza, Italy
Department of Mathematics

Prof. Robert Englman
Soreq NRC, Yavne, Israel
Solid State Department

Prof. Chiara de Fabritiis
Professor of Geometry
University of Ancona, Ancona, Italy
Department of Mathematics "Vito Volterra"

Prof. Joe Goddard
Professor of Applied Mechanics and Engineering Science,
University of California, San Diego, USA
Department of Aerospace Engineering

Prof. Giorgio Kaniadakis
Politecnico di Torino, Italy
Department of Physics

Prof. Signe Kjelstrup
Norges teknisk-naturvitenskapelige universitet, Norway
Institute of Chemistry

Prof. Georgy Lebon
University of Liege, Belgium
Institute of Physics

Prof. Paolo Maria Mariano
University of Molise, Campobasso, and
University of Rome "La Sapienza", Italy
Department of Structural Engineering and Geotechnics

Prof. Gérard A. Maugin
Université Pierre et Marie Curie/ C. N. R. S., France
Head of Laboratory of Models in Mechanics

Prof. David Jou Mirabent
Professor of Condensed Matter Physics
Autonom University of Barcelona, Spain
Dep. of Physics, Group of Statistical Pysics

Prof. Wolfgang Muschik,
Professor of Theoretical Physics,
Technical University of Berlin, Germany
Dep. of Theoretical Physics

Prof. Stanislaw Sieniutycz
Professor of Chemical Engineering
Warsaw University of Technology, Warsaw, Poland
Faculty of Chemical and Process Engineering

Prof. Paolo Vannucci,
Professor of Mechanics, HDR, France
Université de Versailles et St Quentin en Yvelines
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Quotations:

I really want that the Hungarian school of thermodynamics founded by Prof. Gyarmati has a rich continuity.

After all he is so bright, productive, full of ideas!

I accepted with joy to support him, also if I do not know him in person.

I hope that my little help can be useful for Dr. Ván, whose scientific quality is known also abroad Hungary.

P. Ván is the scientific grandson in the famous line of the Budapest Irreversible Thermodynamics group (I.Gyarmati - J. Verhás - P. Ván).

P. Ván is an outstanding, international well known scientist. His field of research is wide spread. It can be characterised by the headline "Thermodynamical Methods in Classical Non-linear Field Theories". ... Beyond his scientific abilities, P. Ván is an excellent teacher, as I know that from numerous joint seminars.

Nobody of the international scientific community would understand, why the field of irreversible thermodynamics is cancelled at your Department of Chemical Physics.

In fact, Hungarian thermodynamicists deserve the best support and blessing rather than the continual reduction of their group in the Institute of Physics of the Budapest University of Technology and Economics in recent years, which is observed with pain by the foreign thermodynamic community.

I consider dr. Ván as an outstanding researcher well-known for his original and innovative ideas in thermodynamics in the lines of thought of late professor Gyarmati. This is confirmed by the publication of a great number of publications in first rate journal and his participation to many international Symposia. I firmly believe that dr. Ván contributed a great deal to the advancements of our knowledge in modern thermodynamics.

I have a very high opinion of P. Ván personally, and of his academic and research activities in general.

I can confirm that Dr. Ván is a talented researcher who combines a deep knowledge in modern physics with a good command of techniques and methods of statistical mechanics and non-equilibrium thermodynamics.

I know in detail Dr. Ván's scientific production and appreciate it deeply.

Dr. Ván is a well known and well respected researcher in mathematical physics who has published his results in very important journals. His results are excellent, his style lucid.

I believe strongly that Dr. Ván is a precious resource for the Budapest University of Technology where he has been working since 1990. His reputation is in the long tradition of excellence of the Hungarian school of mathematical physics. His international reputation as a member of the Hungarian scientific community could be usefully exploited also to increase the support of EU applications for funding.

His achievements in the fields of non-equilibrium thermodynamics are of the highest level, and they found applications in several fields, as the same recent papers of Dr Ván himself witness, along with his skill of adapting his basic theories to different contexts. This is, to my opinion, a more and more rare quality in a scientist, which should be appreciated in the right way.

My expectation that knowledge gained in this field will be decisive for a sound development of energy science and technology. In a situation where energy issues become more and more important due to the global warming,...

He is a brilliant scientist and a harsh defender of his ideas. He certainly greatly contributes to what known outside Hungary as the Hungarian school of Irreversible Thermodynamics under the leadership of the late Professor Gyarmati. But he has been successful in enlarging his views and making decisive progress in resourceful directions.