Education
1992 - 1998 | Eötvös Loránd University, Faculty of Sciences, undergraduate student geophysics, astronomy |
1999 |
MSc in Astronomy Thesis: Modification of the Equation of State in Case of Supernovae Type II Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Judit Németh |
1999 - 2002 |
Eötvös Loránd University, Faculty of Sciences: PhD student, Particle Physics and Astronomy Program supervisor: Prof. Dr. Judit Németh (great go: cum laude). |
2012 |
PhD in physics (particle physics/astronomy), "Summa cum laude" Thesis: High-resolution spectroscopic view of planet formation sites Supervisor: C. P. Dullemond, Zs. Sándor |
Employment
1998 - 2000 | software development at Protomix Ltd. |
2002 - 2006 | measurement automation, data acquisition, software development, server and network management, 10Charge Inc. |
2006 - 2011 | system administrator at Konkoly Observatory of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences |
2011 - 2014 |
researcher at Konkoly Observatory of Hungarian Academy of Sciences member of Lendület Research Group lead by Dr. L. L Kiss member of Infrared Research Group lead by Dr. Péter Ábrahám |
2014 - 2016 | PI of Computational Astrphysics Group (CAG) at Konkoly Observatory of Hungarian Academy of Sciences |
2016 - | PI of 3D Numerical Astrophysics Lab at Konkoly Observatory |
Research activities
infrared spectroscopy | development of a semi-analytical radiative transfer code for modelling molecular spectra emerging in protoplanetary discs |
numerical hydrodynamics | numerical modelling of planet-disc interactions, gravitational perturbations in protoplanetary discs, flux-corrected transport code for hydrodynamical shocks |
N-body | modelling planet-planetesimal-dust gravitational interactions in debris disks by direct N-body codes |
astronomical imaging | development of fast imaging CCD data acquisition for speckle interferometry and lucky imaging, exoplanet transit observations and high-precison photometry |
supernova explosions, neutron starts |
numerical study on infaling of politropic 1D and 2D spherically symmetric systems, proto-neutron stars and shock formation |
multiple stellar systems | modelling of gravitational perturbation caused by tidal forces appeared in hierarchical triple stellar system |
cosmology | determination of cosmological parameters by supernova type Ia redshift-magnitude Hubble-diagram |
Spoken languages
- english - intermediate level, specialized in physics
- deutsch - basic level, specialized in physics
Observing skills
- experience on high-resolution near-infrared spectroscopy with CRIRES, ESO-VLT at Paranal
- experience on speckle interferometry and lucky imaging with 1m class telescope at Konkoly Observatory
Computer skills
- system management: LiNUX, Sun Solaris, Mac OS
- programming languages: ANSI C, ANSI C++, IDL, Mathematica, Bash, Perl, SQL, NVIDIA CUDA