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Dr Klára Szita Tóthné is a retired Professor at the Faculty of Economics Institute of World and Regional Economics at the University of Miskolc. She graduated as a chemist and as an environmental engineer. She received her doctorate (Dr. univ.) with the dissertation "Enrichment of carbonate manganese ores with sulphating and reducing roasting" in 1986 at the University of Attila József in Szeged. She wrote her C.Sc. (PhD) dissertation about "Some questions about foundation of food industrial environmental management" and she has been a candidate (PhD) of economic science at the Hungarian Academy of Sciences (HAS) in 1995. She made the habilitation process in 2008.
From 1989 she taught food technology and environmental economics more than 10 years at Faculty College of Food Industry in Szeged and from 2001 she worked at University of Miskolc, she had been professor since 2010. Her main research fields are environmental economics, assessment of sustainable performance, life cycle assessment and future studies. She is a Founding Member and now the legal representative as president of the LCA Center Association. She has membership in different scientific and professional organisations. She has more than 230 scientific publications and 100 independent citations.

Dr Károly Jármai is a Professor at the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering and Informatics at the University of Miskolc, where he graduated as a mechanical engineer (1978) and received his doctorate (1979). He teaches design of steel structures, welded structures, composite structures and optimization in Hungarian and in the English language. His research interests include structural optimization, mathematical programming techniques, and expert systems. He wrote his CSc. (PhD) dissertation at the Hungarian Academy of Science in 1988, became a European Engineer (Eur. Ing. FEANI, Paris) in 1990, and got his habilitation at Miskolc in 1995. Having successfully defended