Tricholomopsis rutilans - photo by Árpád Baricz © 2026.09.26
Tricholomopsis rutilans - photo by Árpád Baricz © 2026.09.26
Curriculum Vitae
Name: Árpád Baricz
Degrees: Ph.D., Dr. habil.
Date and place of birth: September 7, 1981, Gheorgheni [Gyergyószentmiklós]
Nationality: Hungarian [I am a member of the Hungarian minority in Romania, I am székely ]
Citizenship: Romanian, Hungarian
Marital status: married
Religion: Roman Catholic [I am a member of a Christian Life Community group in my town]
E-mail: bariczocsi@yahoo.com
Current position
Professor, Department of Business Administration, Faculty of Economics and Business Administration, Babeş-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca, Romania
Professor, Institute of Applied Mathematics, John von Neumann Faculty of Informatics, Óbuda University, Budapest, Hungary
Degrees in mathematics
Habilitation in mathematics, Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science, Babeș-Bolyai University of Cluj-Napoca, Romania, 2017
Title of habilitation thesis: Radii of starlikeness and convexity of some special functions
Habilitation in mathematics, Institute of Applied Mathematics, Óbuda University, Budapest, Hungary, 2015
Title of habilitation thesis: The generalized Marcum Q-function: inequalities, bounds and applications
Ph.D. in mathematics, Institute of Mathematics, University of Debrecen, Debrecen, Hungary, 2004-2008
Title of Ph.D. thesis: Turán type inequalities for some special functions, Advisor: Péter T. Nagy
Ph.D. in mathematics, Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science, Babeș-Bolyai University of Cluj-Napoca, Romania, 2004-2008
Title of Ph.D. thesis: Generalized Bessel functions of the first kind, Advisor: Wolfgang W. Breckner
M.Sc. in mathematics, Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science, Babeș-Bolyai University of Cluj-Napoca, Romania, 2003-2004
Title of M.Sc. thesis: Some problems in geometric function theory of univalent functions, Advisor: Csaba Varga
B.Sc. in mathematics, Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science, Babeș-Bolyai University of Cluj-Napoca, Romania, 1999-2003
Title of B.Sc. thesis: Some immediate applications of differential subordinations and superordinations, Advisor: Teodor Bulboacă
Mathematical Genealogy (thesis completion year)
Árpád Baricz (2008) - Wolfgang Werner Breckner (1970) - Tiberiu Popoviciu (1933) - Paul Montel (1907) - Henri Léon Lebesque (1902) & Émile Borel (1893) - Gaston Darboux (1866) - Michel Chasles (1814) - Simeon Denis Poisson (1800) - Joseph Louis Lagrange & Pierre-Simon Laplace - Leonhard Euler (1726) - Johann Bernoulli (1690) - . . .
Árpád Baricz (2008) - Péter Tibor Nagy (1978) - Anatoly Mikhailovich Vasilev (1952) - Sergei Finikov - Dimitri Fedorowitsch Egorov (1901) - Nicolai Vasilievich Bugaev (1866) - Karl Theodor Wilhelm Weierstrass (1841) & Ernst Eduard Kummer (1831) & Joseph Liouville (1836) - Heinrich Ferdinand Scherk (1823) - Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel (1810) & Heinrich Wilhelm Brandes (1800) - Carl Friedrich Gauss (1799) - . . .
Fellowships and Grants
2017, STAR-UBB Advanced Fellowship Intern of Babeş-Bolyai University of Cluj-Napoca
2016-2017, Research grant for young researchers GTC_31777 of Babeş-Bolyai University of Cluj-Napoca
2015, Grant GSCE_30246 supporting excellence in scientific research of Babeş-Bolyai University of Cluj-Napoca
2013-2016, János Bolyai Research Scholarship of Hungarian Academy of Sciences
2013-2014, Research grant for young researchers GTC_34021 of Babeş-Bolyai University of Cluj-Napoca
2013-2016, Young research team project PN-II-RU-TE-2012-3-0190, Romanian National Authority for Scientific Research CNCS-UEFISCDI
2010-2012, Postdoctoral research project PN-II-RU-PD-388, Romanian National Authority for Scientific Research CNCS-UEFISCDI
2009-2012, János Bolyai Research Scholarship of Hungarian Academy of Sciences
2004, Summer School on Gauge Theory, Floer Homology and Low Dimensional Topology, Alfréd Rényi Institute of Mathematics, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest, Hungary
2003, Graduate fellow, Eötvös Lóránd University, Budapest, Hungary
2002, Summer School, Eötvös Lóránd University, Budapest, Hungary
Publications and citations
List of publications via Google Scholar, Zentralblatt, Mathematical Reviews, and preprints via arXiv
Co-authors: Ibrahim Aktaş, Huda Alkharsani, Horst Alzer, Szilárd András, Genet M. Assefa, Nitin Bisht, Barkat Ali Bhayo, Paul L. Butzer, Murat Çağlar, Tivadar Danka, Etele Deák, Erhan Deniz, Dimitar K. Dimitrov, János Fodor †, Basem Frasin, Aurél Galántai, Mourad E.H. Ismail, Dragana Jankov Maširević, Ekrem Kadioglu, Shashi Kant, Riku Klén, Chrysi G. Kokologiannaki, Stamatis Koumandos, Pranav Kumar, Pál A. Kupán, Andrea Laforgia, Zhong Xuan Mao, Khaled Mehrez, István Mező, Saiful Rahman Mondal, Gergő Nemes, Kottakkaran S. Nisar, Edward Neuman, Milutin Obradovic, Halit Orhan, Tibor K. Pogány, Dhivya Prabhu K, Saminathan Ponnusamy, Jugal Kishore Prajapat, Anuja Prajapati, Kondooru Raghavendar, Imre J. Rudas, Manjunatha M. Rudrappa, Snehalata Sahoo, József Sándor, Sanjeev Singh, František Štampach, Yin Sun, Anbhu Swaminathan, Anikó Szakál, Róbert Szász, Ljiljana Teofanov, Jing Feng Tian, Evrim Toklu, Nataša Ujić, Csaba Varga †, V. Antony Vijesh, Jetro Vesti, Matti Vuorinen, Shanhe Wu, Xibin Xu, Nihat Yagmur, Ming Zhao, Shidong Zhou, Ling Zhu
The number of citations to my publications in Google Scholar is 5408 and the corresponding Hirsch index is 41. The number of total citations in Mathematical Reviews is 1819, while in Zentralblatt Math is 2088. However, in these systems the self-citations are not excluded. According to Scopus the number of independent citations to my papers is 2474 and the corresponding Hirsch index is 27. According to Web of Science my papers were cited 2708 times with an average 19.48 per item, while the number of independent citations is 2233 and the corresponding Hirsch index is 30. [last update: 2026.09.16]
Erdős number =3 [through J. Sándor, F. Luca or H. Alzer, J.L. Brenner or M. Ismail, K. Alladi or T. Danka, V. Totik]
Language skills
Hungarian [mother tongue], Romanian [fluent], English [good]
PhD students
Antal Ferenc Skorka, Institute of Applied Mathematics, Óbuda University, Budapest, Hungary
Manjunatha M. Rudrappa, Department of Mathematics, Indian Institute of Technology Indore, India [Co-supervisor: Sanjeev Singh]
Genet Mekonnen Assefa, Institute of Applied Mathematics, Óbuda University, Budapest, Hungary, 2026
Title of PhD thesis: Bounds for ratios of Whittaker functions and infinite divisibility of some Whittaker distributions
Evrim Toklu, Department of Mathematics, Atatürk University, Erzurum, Turkey, 2017
Title of PhD thesis: Contributions to the theory of special univalent functions [Co-supervisor: Ekrem Kadioglu]
Ibrahim Aktaș, Department of Mathematics, Atatürk University, Erzurum, Turkey, 2017
Title of PhD thesis: Geometric properties of normalized Bessel, Struve and Lommel functions [Co-supervisor: Halit Orhan]
Sanjeev Singh, Department of Mathematics, Indian Institute of Technology Madras, Chennai, India, 2016
Title of PhD thesis: Turán type inequalities and bounds for some special functions [Co-supervisor: Saminathan Ponnusamy]
Prizes
2025, Scientific Award, Babeș-Bolyai University of Cluj-Napoca, 2026.02.02
[Being listed in the top 2% of researchers in the world by citation impact - press release in Hungarian]
2024, Scientific Award, Babeș-Bolyai University of Cluj-Napoca, 2025.01.23
[Being listed in the top 2% of researchers in the world by citation impact - Award Ceremony in Romanian]
2024, Best Research Paper Award for the paper On starlikeness of regular Coulomb wave functions
[by Árpád Baricz, Pranav Kumar and Sanjeev Singh] published in Proceedings of the American Mathematical Society,
Indian Institute of Technology Indore, Indore, India, 2024.02.17
2023, Scientific Award, Babeș-Bolyai University of Cluj-Napoca, 2024.01.29
[Being listed in the top 2% of researchers in the world by citation impact]
2022, Scientific Award, Babeș-Bolyai University of Cluj-Napoca, 2023.02.10
[Being listed in the top 2% of researchers in the world by citation impact]
2021, Scientific Award, Babeș-Bolyai University of Cluj-Napoca, 2022.01.31
[Being listed in the top 2% of researchers in the world by citation impact - Award Ceremony in Romanian]
2020, Scientific Award, Babeș-Bolyai University of Cluj-Napoca, 2021.03.01
[Being listed in the top 2% of researchers in the world by citation impact - Award Ceremony in Romanian]
2014, Scientific Research Prize, Babeș-Bolyai University of Cluj-Napoca, 2015.01.19
2012, Award for Young Scientists, Regional Committee of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences in Kolozsvár [Cluj-Napoca], 2012.11.17
2010, Scientific Research Prize, Babeş-Bolyai University of Cluj-Napoca, no. 21.906/7.12.2010
Activities
Reviewer for Mathematical Reviews [2006 - ] [210 published reviews]
Reviewer for Zentralblatt für Mathematik [2012 - ] [23 published reviews]
Member of the American Mathematical Society [AMS] [2008 - ]
Member of the Society of Hungarian Scientists and Scholars [2009 - ]
Editorial Board Member of Journal of Classical Analysis [2011 - ]
Editorial Board Member of Acta Universitatis Sapientiae Mathematica [2015 - ]
Editorial Board Member of Journal of Analysis [2016 - ]
Co-Editor in Chief of Journal of Inequalities and Applications [2020 - ]
Editorial Board Member of Constructive Mathematical Analysis [2026 - ]
Referee for several international mathematical and engineering journals and conference proceedings [424 referee reports]
Hobbies
Canoeing, hiking, mushroom foraging, stamp collection
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