Name: László L. Kiss
Place and date of birth: Subotica - YU, 08/08/1972
Citizenship: Hungarian, Serbian, Australian
Languages: Hungarian, English (ECL advanced combined); elementary reading and speaking in German and Serbian
Current workplace:
MTA CSFK, Konkoly Thege Miklós Astronomical Institute (Konkoly Observatory), e-mail: kiss@konkoly.hu
Higher education and scientific degrees:

June 30, 1996: M.Sc. in Physics, University of Szeged
June 30, 2000: summa cum laude PhD in Physics, University of Szeged
November 23, 2007: D.Sc., Hungarian Academy of Sciences

Workplace history:

University of Szeged, research fellow–assistant professor, 1999 – 2002
University of Sydney, research fellow (Level A–C), Dec. 2002 - Oct. 2009

Professional activities:

• 2012-: Member of the Academia Europea
  

• 2011- : member of the Committee of Astronomy and Space Physics, Hungarian Academy of Sciences

• 2010- : member of the Board of Directors of the European journal Astronomy and Astrophysics (since 2012: member of the Executive Committee)

• 2010- : member of OPTICON Time Allocation Committee (governing the European trans-national access to 2-4 m class telescopes)

• 2007-2010: member of the Australian Time Assignment Committee (ATAC) and the Anglo-Australian Time Assignment Committee (AATAC). Telescopes covered: the 3.9 m Angol-Australian Telescope, the 8.2 m Gemini telescopes and the 6.5 m Magellan telescopes

• Referee for journals (2000-2012):
  Astronomy and Astrophysics (A&A), Astrophysical Journal (ApJ), Astronomical Journal (AJ), Monthly No- tices of the Royal Astronomical Society (MNRAS), Astrophysics and Space Science (ApSS), Publication of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific (PASP), Publication of the Astronomical Society of Japan (PASJ), Ast- ronomische Nachrichten (AN), Journal of the AAVSO (JAAVSO), New Astronomy, Information Bulletin on Variable Stars (IBVS)

• Membership in professional organizations: International Astronomical Union (IAU), American Association of Variable Star Observers (AAVSO), Hungarian Astronomical Association (HAA), public body of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences

• Since 2000: reading editor of the monthly journal of the HAA (Meteor)

• Since 2006: Editor-in-Chief of the astronomical news website a hirek.csillagaszat.hu

• Grant application reviewer: OTKA, Austrian Science Fund, Marsden Fund (New Zealand), Czech Science Fund

• PhD reviewer: 5 times

  Fellowships, research grants:

  2000-2002: Bolyai János Research Fellowship, Hungarian Academy of Sciences 2000-2002: OTKA Grant T032258, Co-I
  2001-2003: OM FKFP Grant 0010/2001, PI
  2001-2003: OTKA Grant T034615, Co-I
  2002: Hungarian State Eötvös Fellowship
  2003-2006: OTKA Grant F043203, PI (closed in 2004)
  2003-2006: OTKA Grant T042509, Co-I
  2002 Dec - 2005 March: Postdoctoral Fellow in Stellar Oscillations, University of Sydney
  2005 April - 2008 April: University of Sydney Postdoctoral Research Fellow
  2003-2008: Denison Travel Grants, School of Physics, University of Sydney
  2008 May - 2010 Dec: University of Sydney RAVE Fellow
  2009: „Stellar oscillations as a tool to identify planet hosting stars”, Australian Academy of Science/Scientific Visits to the USA Travel Grant
  2009: „CYCLOPS - A Better Way to Find Extrasolar Planets”, ARC LIEF, Co-I
  2009: University of Sydney Bridging Grant, PI
  2009-2012: OTKA Grant K76816, Co-I
  2009-2014: MTA Lendület Young Researchers Program, PI
  2010-2013: OTKA-NKTH FP7 Marie Curie Mobility Reintegration grant, PI
  2011-2014: FP7 Marie Curie International Research Staff Exchange Scheme grant, Co-I
  2013-2016: OTKA Grant K104607, Co-I
  

Total grant income to date: approx. 1.8M EUR.

Research fields:

• Astrophyics of pulsating variable stars: red giants, variables in the instability strip
• Interactions in close binary stars: nova and supernova explosions, period changes in eclipsing binaries
• Transiting exoplanets
• Small bodies in the Solar System: physical parameters and rotation of minor planets and comets
• Astrophysics of stars clusters: cluster variables, kinematic studies
• Observational techniques: astrometry, photometry, spectroscopy, interferometry
• Scientific computing: analysis of large databases, IRAF, IDL, Matlab, awk, handling FITS and OIFITS formats