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For more than 25 years Branislav Anwarzai has been building bridges between fundamental research and the working systems his clients deploy in the field. He moves between three worlds — applied physics, electronic engineering and software architecture — and brings them together into products: sensors that measure what was previously unmeasurable, platforms that turn raw data into decisions, and digital twins that let cities and industrial sites see themselves clearly for the first time.
Kurzbiografie
Branislav Anwarzai is the founder and director of the Institute of Advanced Studies (IAS) and managing director of the technology consultancy INNO, s.r.o. He also serves as chief technology executive at NEVIA SE. Before founding IAS he spent over eight years as a researcher at the Institute of Physics of the Slovak Academy of Sciences, eleven years as a university teacher at Slovak and Czech technical universities, and held research and engineering roles at PSL a.s. and at GE Inspection Technologies in Germany.
His scientific work — concentrated on multilayer magnetic thin-film structures and their use as sensors of mechanical strain — has been published in international Current Contents journals and cited by groups working on flexible spintronics, including a citation in Nature Electronics. He is the inventor on two patents for magnetostrictive sensors (WIPO PCT publication WO2009088378 and Slovak national patent SK 50001/2008).
Today he focuses IAS on the convergence of artificial intelligence, sensor systems, IoT and cyber-secure infrastructure. The flagship platform IntelliTwin, developed under the IAS roof, is a modular digital-twin solution for integrating Smart-City installations, IoT sensor networks and security systems with hardware-accelerated AI inference of up to 200 TOPS and a library of 462+ ready-to-use models.
In Zahlen
| 25+ | Jahre in Forschung, Engineering und Innovation |
| 48 | Zitate in indizierter wissenschaftlicher Literatur (Scopus) |
| 2 | erteilte Patente in magnetostriktiver Sensorik |
| 200 TOPS | maximale Inferenzleistung der IntelliTwin-Plattform |
Was er heute tut
Branislav führt komplexe Produktentwicklungen end-to-end — von Problemstellung und Architekturdesign, über Hardware- und Software-Prototyping, bis zu Deployment und Betrieb:
- Digital-Twin-Plattformen zur Integration bestehender Smart-City-, IoT- und Sicherheitsinfrastruktur.
- KI-Modellentwicklung und KI-Hardware-Infrastruktur — Edge-MCUs, FPGAs, GPU/TPU-Server, MLOps.
- Parallel Computing & KI-Architekturen für IoT — Mesh-Netzwerke von Off-Grid-Edge-Nodes.
- Hardware-Design — Mixed-Signal, FPGA, RF und PCB-Design mit EMV-Vorabprüfung.
- Sensor-Design — GMR / Spin-Valve / TMR Magnetsensoren, magnetostriktive, Dehnungs- und Ultraschallsensoren.
- Embedded Systems & DSP — RTOS-Firmware, Echtzeit-Signalverarbeitung, sichere OTA-Updates.
- Enterprise-Software-Architektur — Cloud-native Services, E-Commerce, Datenanalyse.
- Innovationsmanagement & Technology Foresight — UNIDO-zertifizierte Methodik, EU-Beihilferahmen anerkannt in 11+ Ländern.
Ausgewählte wissenschaftliche Publikationen
- Anwarzai, B.; Áč, V.; Lúby, Š.; Majková, E.; Senderák, R. Pseudo spin-valve on plastic substrate as sensing elements of mechanical strain. Vacuum, vol. 84, no. 1, 2009, pp. 108–110. (cited in Nature Electronics, 2018)
- Lúby, Š.; Anwarzai, B.; Áč, V.; Majková, E.; Senderák, R. Pseudo spin-valves with different spacer thickness as sensing elements of mechanical strain. Vacuum, vol. 86, no. 6, 2012, pp. 718–720.
- Lúby, Š.; Majková, E.; Debnárová, A.; Senderák, R.; Áč, V.; Anwarzai, B. Effect of magnetic flux distribution on GMR in Ag/Co multilayers. Thin Solid Films, vol. 433, 2003, pp. 243–246.
- Áč, V.; Anwarzai, B.; Lúby, Š.; Majková, E. Influence of mechanical strain on magnetic characteristics of spin valves. Journal of Physics: Conference Series, vol. 100, 2008.
Autorenprofil: Scopus (Author ID 6505731682) · IEEE Xplore. Über 40 internationale wissenschaftliche Artikel und Konferenzbeiträge; 60+ Current-Contents-Artikel und Zitate.
Patente
- Magnetostrictive Indicator — WIPO PCT-Veröffentlichung WO2009088378, veröffentlicht am 16. Juli 2009.
- Magnetostrictive Sensor — slowakisches Patent SK 50001/2008, erteilt am 11. Januar 2008.
Vorträge und öffentliches Engagement
2025 trat Branislav bei JazzTalk 2025 — Cyber-security through the eyes of Roman Václav, DPO of the Year 2024 auf, im Rahmen des Programms Trenčín 2026 — Europäische Kulturhauptstadt.
Mitgliedschaften, Zertifikate, Auszeichnungen
- IEEE Professional Member (2007 – 2011, international).
- Slowakische Physikalische Gesellschaft (2006 – heute).
- UNIDO-Zertifikat — Technology Foresight for Corporations (2006).
- RIS INSTIT Management Unit, Work-Package Coordinator (2005 – 2008).
- TOGAF (2022) und ITIL (2022) — internationale Zertifizierungen in Enterprise-Architektur und Service-Management.
- Externer Gutachter an Ingenieursarbeiten, u. a. 2015 an der Fakultät für Informatik der Masaryk-Universität Brünn.
Expertise-Bereiche
Vision für IAS
Das Institute of Advanced Studies existiert, um die Arbeit zu leisten, die weder reine Akademie noch reine Produktentwicklung allein gut bewältigen — vielversprechende Ideen über die Lücke zwischen veröffentlichter Forschung und einsatzbereiten Systemen zu tragen. IAS verbindet wissenschaftliche Strenge mit End-to-End-Ausführung: Forschungsmethoden, Daten, Modelle, Hardware, Software, Deployment, Betrieb.