Polarization Vision and Environmental Polarized Light

這本新版本提供了對偏振光和偏振視覺的最先進探索。書的第一部分探討了許多動物類群的偏振敏感性，包括無脊椎動物和脊椎動物，並詳細描述了陸地和水生生物。第二部分專注於環境偏振的描述，並探討其對動物和人類偏振視覺的影響。這包括水下偏振、偏振信號、天空偏振的維京導航和天文偏振。這一部分還檢視了由人為因素引起的偏振光污染，例如從瀝青表面、玻璃窗、汽車車身和其他人造結構的反射，這些結構現在已知會形成對偏振取向昆蟲的生態陷阱。新版本包含多個新內容，包括有關三葉蟲、跳蟲、蝙蝠、海豹、成像偏振測量和天文偏振的章節。

Gábor Horváth was born in 1963 in Kiskunhalas, Hungary. In 1987 he received his diploma in physics from the Eötvös Loránd University in Budapest. Then he was a research assistant at the Department of Low Temperature Physics of the same university, where he investigated electrical percolation processes in granular superconductors. In 1989 he received a doctoral fellowship in the Biophysics Group of the Central Research Institute for Physics of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences (Budapest), where he developed a mathematical description and computer modelling of retinal cometlike afterimages. He obtained his Ph.D. at the Eötvös University in 1991. His thesis in physiological optics was a computational study of the visual system and optical environment of certain animals. In 1991-1992 he was a postdoctoral fellow in the Institute for Zoology of the University of Regensburg (Germany), where together with Professor Rudolf Schwind he studied the polarization patterns of skylight reflected from water surfaces and the polarotaxis of aquatic insects. Then he was a postdoctoral fellow at the Department for Biological Cybernetics of the University of Tübingen (Germany), where he measured natural polarization patterns and investigated the polarization-sensitive optomotor reaction in water insects together with Professor Dezső Varjú. In 1993 he finished his postdoctoral dissertation in computational visual optics to obtain the degree Candidate for Biophysical Science awarded by the Hungarian Academy of Sciences. For this treatise he won the first International Dennis Gabor Award. Between 1996 and 2018 he was an associate professor, and from 2018 he is a professor of biophysics and leader of the Environmental Optics Labortory at the Department of Biological Physics of the Eötvös University. From 2022 he is the leader of the Astropolarimetric Research Group of the HUN-REN-ELTE Hungarian Research Network in cooperaion with the Eötvös University. His main research interests are the optics of animal eyes and the visual environment, animal polarization sensitivity, polarization characteristics of the optical environment as well as various biomechanical problems. He designed imaging polarimeters with which he records and visualizes the polarization patterns in nature. He participated on several expeditions and polarimetric measuring campaigns in Hungary as well as in the Tunisian and Namibian deserts, Finnish Lapland, North Pole, and on the Atlantic Ocean. He was three times a Humboldt research fellow in the Universities of Tübingen and Regensburg. He wrote his first Springer monograph (2004) about polarization vision in Tübingen with Dezső Varjú. He edited and finished the second Springer monograph (2014) dealing with polarization in Regensburg. He won several Hungarian and international prizes and awards for his scientific achievements in biological optics.

Gábor Horváth於1963年出生於匈牙利的Kiskunhalas。1987年，他在布達佩斯的厄爾特大學獲得物理學學位。隨後，他成為該大學低溫物理系的研究助理，研究顆粒超導體中的電滲透過程。1989年，他獲得匈牙利科學院中央物理研究所生物物理小組的博士獎學金，並在那裡開發了視網膜彗星狀殘像的數學描述和計算機建模。他於1991年在厄爾特大學獲得博士學位。他的生理光學論文是一項針對某些動物的視覺系統和光學環境的計算研究。在1991年至1992年間，他在德國雷根斯堡大學的動物學研究所擔任博士後研究員，與Rudolf Schwind教授一起研究從水面反射的天空光的偏振模式以及水生昆蟲的偏振趨向。隨後，他在德國圖賓根大學的生物控制論系擔任博士後研究員，與Dezső Varjú教授一起測量自然偏振模式並研究水生昆蟲的偏振敏感性運動反應。1993年，他完成了計算視覺光學的博士後論文，以獲得匈牙利科學院頒發的生物物理科學候選人學位。因為這篇論文，他獲得了第一屆國際Dennis Gabor獎。1996年至2018年間，他擔任副教授，自2018年起成為厄爾特大學生物物理系的生物物理學教授及環境光學實驗室的負責人。自2022年起，他成為HUN-REN-ELTE匈牙利研究網絡的天體偏振研究小組的負責人，並與厄爾特大學合作。他的主要研究興趣包括動物眼睛的光學和視覺環境、動物的偏振敏感性、光學環境的偏振特性以及各種生物力學問題。他設計了成像偏振儀，利用這些儀器記錄和可視化自然界中的偏振模式。他參加了多次探險和偏振測量活動，包括匈牙利、突尼西亞和納米比亞的沙漠、芬蘭拉普蘭、北極以及大西洋。他曾三次在圖賓根大學和雷根斯堡大學擔任洪堡研究獎學金獲得者。他與Dezső Varjú共同撰寫了第一本Springer專著（2004），探討了圖賓根的偏振視覺。他編輯並完成了第二本Springer專著（2014），涉及雷根斯堡的偏振問題。他因在生物光學方面的科學成就獲得了多項匈牙利和國際獎項。