Born: Szeged, Hungary, 21 Oct. 1965

Degree:

1989 - MSc in Physics at JATE University, Szeged, Hungary
Thesis: "Period variation of variable stars due to orbital revolution"

1996 - PhD in Physics at JATE  University, Szeged, Hungary
Thesis: "Variable stars in binary systems"

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Positions:
1989-92: PhD student of Hungarian Academy of Sciences at Konkoly Observatory, Budapest, Hungary and JATE University, Szeged, Hungary, supervisor: Dr. László Szabados

1992-1999: senior research fellow of Research Group on Laser Physics of Hungarian Academy of Sciences (at Dept. of Optics, JATE University) supervisor: Prof. Zs. Bor

1999-2001: lecturer at Department of Optics, University of Szeged

2001-2016: associate professor at Department of Optics, University of Szeged

Scholarships and visits:
1991: visiting scientist (6 weeks) at Department of Astronomy University of Toronto, Canada

1995: Hungarian Eotvos Fellow (3 months) at York University, Toronto, Canada supervisor: Prof. N.R.Evans

1997: Hungarian Eotvos Fellow (3 months) at David Dunlap Observatory, University of Toronto, Canada supervisor: Prof. C.T. Bolton, Prof.J.R.Percy

1997-1999: Magyary Zoltan Postdoctoral Fellow

2001-2003: Bolyai Janos Fellowship

2008-2009: Research fellow, Department of Astronomy, University of Texas at Austin; supervisor: Prof. J.C.Wheeler

Awards:
1989: Pro Scientia Gold Medal for undergraduate students

1998: Young Researchers' Prize by Hungarian Academy of Sciences

2012: "László Detre Prize" by Roland Eötvös Physical Society

2012: "Golden Chalk Prize" by Faculty of Sciences and Informatics, University of Szeged

Grants (as project leader):
1993-95: "Study of stellar binary systems for solving astrophysical problems"
Hungarian OTKA Grant #F007318  --- 900,000 HUF

1994:  "Numerical simulations in physical systems"
World Bank-OTKA Grant #W015239 --- 15,000 USD

1994: "CCD-photometry of short period variable stars"
AMFK (Hungarian Ministry of Education) Grant # 678/94 --- 600,000 HUF

1997-99: "Application of high-resolution optical spectroscopy in astrophysics"
Hungarian OTKA Grant #F022249 --- 900,000 HUF

2001-03: "Astrophysics of nova- and supernova explosions"
Hungarian OTKA Grant #T034615 --- 7,300,000 HUF

2013-2015: "Astrophysics of supernova explosions"
Hungarian OTKA Grant #NN107637 -- 18,252,000 HUF

2017-2020: "Transient Astrophysical Objects"
GINOP 2.3.2-15-2016-00033 -- 687,369,737 HUF

Teaching activity: since 1989 at  University of Szeged  (formerly JATE University )

- Teaching assistant in 

• Electrodynamics
• Thermodynamics
• Atomic Physics
• Astronomy
• Experimental Physics
• Laboratory Practices in Physics

- Part-time lecturer of

• Wave Theory and Optics (1993)
• Astronomical Spectroscopy (1999)
• General Astronomy (2000)

• Classical Mechanics (1994)
• Numerical Methods in Physics (1995)
• Modern Astronomy (1995,1996)
• History of Astronomy (since 1998)
• Astrophysics (since 1999)
• Astronomical Techniques (since 1999)
• Galactic and extragalactic astronomy (since 2004)
  

Specialization and skills:

- Astronomy

• astronomical spectroscopy, abundance analysis, Atlas9/SYNTHE
• supernovae: photometry and spectroscopy, distance measurement for core-collapse and Ia SNe (EPM, MLCS), spectrum modeling with SYNOW / SYNAPPS
• CCD-photometry of crowded stellar fields, DAOPHOT, isochrone fitting
• Cepheid-type pulsating variable stars: high-resolution spectroscopy, Baade-Wesselink analysis, double-mode pulsation
• eclipsing binaries, contact binaries, light curve and radial velocity modeling, binary star evolution

• IRAF, Dolphot, HEASoft
• HST/ACS;  Swift/UVOT,XRT;  Spitzer/IRAC,MIPS,IRS data reduction, photometry, spectroscopy
• digital image processing
• application of Fourier- and wavelet transforms
• digital convolution and deconvolution
• time series analysis

• UNIX system administration (Solaris 2.x, Linux)
• script programming in UNIX
• programming in C and Pascal
• basic knowledge of HTML