Current position
- Since 2019: Research Advisor (tenured), Konkoly Observatory, Research Centre for Astronomy and Earth Sciences, Hungary
- Since 2015: External affiliated member of the Max Planck Institute for Astronomy, Heidelberg, Germany
Previous positions
- 2014 – 2019: Senior Research Fellow, Konkoly Observatory, Research Centre for Astronomy and Earth Sciences, Budapest, Hungary
- 2011 – 2014: ESA Fellow, ESA/ESTEC, European Space Agency, Noordwijk, The Netherlands
- 2008 – 2011: Postdoctoral researcher, Leiden Observatory, Leiden, The Netherlands
- 2004 – 2008: Assistant Research Fellow, Konkoly Observatory, Budapest, Hungary
Degrees
- 2019: DSc (Doctor of Science); Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest, Hungary
- 2009: PhD (summa cum laude) in Particle Physics and Astronomy; Eötvös Loránd University, Hungary
- 2004: MSc (with honors) in Physics and Astronomy; Eötvös Loránd University, Hungary
Education: Faculty of Science, Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest, Hungary
- 2004 – 2007: PhD School of Physics, Particle Physics and Astrophysics PhD Program
- 1999 – 2004: Physics, Astronomy, English Translator and French Translator majors
Languages
Native Hungarian, fluent English, conversational French, reading Spanish
Fellowships and grants
- 2017 – 2023: Starting Grant of the European Research Council (1 370 200 EUR)
- 2014 – 2019: Momentum Fellowship of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences (620 000 EUR)
- 2006 – 2007: Visiting Graduate Student Fellowship, Spitzer Science Center, Caltech, Pasadena, USA
- 2001: Fellowship of the International Association for the Exchange of Students for Technical Experience (IAESTE), UNICAMP, Campinas, Brazil
Awards
- 2023: Berkeley Prize (as part of the Gaia Collaboration through membership and work in the Variability Processing Unit of the Gaia Data Processing and Analysis Consortium)
- 2020: Women in Science Excellence Award of the Women in Science Foundation (Budapest, Hungary)
- 2018: László Detre Award (awarded by the Roland Eötvös Physical Society for exceptional results in astronomy in Hungary, 100 EUR, Budapest, Hungary)
- 2017: L'Oréal-UNESCO For Women in Science International Rising Talents Award (15 000 EUR, Paris, France)
- 2015: L'Oréal-UNESCO For Women in Science National Award (awarded to accomplished women researchers, 6500 EUR, Budapest, Hungary)
- 2014: Junior Prima Prize (awarded by the Prima Primissima Foundation to young people with exceptional talents in Hungary, 6500 EUR, Budapest, Hungary)
Teaching activities
- Lecturer at the Eötvös Loránd University (Budapest, Hungary), including the supervision of BSc, MSc, and PhD students, as well as summer students.
Organisation of scientific meetings
- 2023 July 10–14: European Astronomical Society Annual Meeting (EAS), "One year of JWST: photodissociation regions, protostars, disks, and planets symposium", Krakow, Poland (expected to be ~300)
- 2023 June 12–17: "The 11th VLTI School of Interferometry", Budapest (expected to be ~50)
- 2022 July 16–24: COSPAR 2022, 44th Scientific Assembly, "Star Formation with Spaceborne Infrared Facilities: the Era of JWST", Athens, Greece (50)
- 2022 July 4–9: "Cool Stars 21", Toulouse, France (500)
- 2021 June 7–18: "The 10th VLTI School of Interferometry", virtual conference (70)
- 2021 March 2–4: "Cool Stars 20.5", virtual conference (1100)
- 2020 June 30–July 1: "European Astronomical Society Annual Meeting", Leiden, Netherlands (200), to be held as a virtual meeting due to COVID19
- 2019 October 14–18: "Interaction of Stars with their Environment", Budapest, Hungary (50)
- 2019 September 30–October 4: The 2nd international Workshop on The UX Ori type stars and related topics, St Petersburg (50)
- 2019 September 26: Interdisciplinary science session to commemorate the 250th anniversary of the expedition of Maximilian Hell and János Sajnovics to observe the transit of Venus in Norway, Budapest, Hungary, (50)
- 2019 September 23–25: "Current and future trends in debris disc science II", Budapest, Hungary (40)
- 2019 June 24–28: "European Week of Astronomy and Space Science", Protoplanetary Disks Symposium and VLTI Special Session, Lyon, France (200)
- 2018 July 9–14: "9th VLTI interferometry summer school" in Lisbon, Portugal (40)
- 2016 October 10–13: "Missing Links From Disks to Planets" workshop at Konkoly Observatory, Budapest, Hungary (40)
- 2016 July 4–8: "European Week of Astronomy and Space Science", Episodic Accretion in Star Formation Special Session, Athens, Greece (50)
- 2012 August 15–17: "Frontiers of Star Formation" workshop at ESA/ESTEC, Noordwijk, The Netherlands (40)
- 2011 April 20–21: "ALMA Early Science Cycle 0 Workshop" at Leiden Observatory, The Netherlands (30)
Commissions of trust
Since 2023: Currently member of two review committees
- 2022: Proposal review panel member for NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope
- 2021: Reviewer for ERC Starting Grant proposals
- 2021: Panel member for the NASA Exoplanets Research Program (XRP) funding scheme
- 2019 – 2021: Jury member for Hungarian grant proposals submitted to the National Research, Development and Innovation Office (NFKIH/OTKA, Hungary)
- 2019 – 2021: Proposal review panel member for the European Southern Observatory (ESO)
- 2020: Currently member of two review committees
- 2019: Proposal reviewer for FONDECYT (Fondo Nacional de Desarrollo Científico y Tecnológico, Chile)
- 2019: Proposal reviewer for OPTICON (Optical Infrared Coordination Network for Astronomy)
- 2017: Proposal reviewer for DiRAC (computing time for supercomputer clusters in the UK)
- 2016 – 2018: Proposal reviewer for ALMA and XMM-Newton
- 2017: Proposal reviewer for Dirac (UK high performance computing)
- 2011, 2013: Proposal reviewer for NASA Origins of Solar Systems
- Since 2010: journal reviewer for Nature Astronomy, The Astrophysical Journal, the Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Astronomy & Astrophysics, the Publications of the Astronomical Society of Australia, and the Information Bulletin on Variable Stars
Memberships of scientific societies
- Since 2024: ESO's European Science Advisory Committee (ESAC)
- Since 2024: The ALMA Scientific Advisory Committee (ASAC)
- Since 2022: ESA's Astronomy Working Group (AWG)
- Since 2019: Founding member of the Hungarian Young Researchers’ Academy
- Since 2019: European Astronomical Society
- Since 2019: Presidential nomination committee of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences
- 2019 – 2021: Assembly of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences (as an elected non-academician member of the Department of Physical Sciences of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences)
- Since 2018: Astronomy and Space Physics Committee of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences
- 2017 – 2020: Women in Research Careers Presidential Committee of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences
- Since 2017: Science Board of Konkoly Observatory
- Since 2013: Public Body of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences
- Since 2012: International Astronomical Union
- Since 1999: Hungarian Astronomical Association
Institutional responsibilities
- Since 2014: Co-group leader of the "Konkoly Space Astronomy, Planet and Star Formation Group" (Konkoly Observatory, Budapest, Hungary)
- 2012 – 2013: Organizer of weekly "Research Fellow Breakfasts" (European Space Agency, Noordwijk, The Netherlands)
- 2009 – 2011: Organizer of weekly group meetings and journal clubs on star formation (Leiden Observatory, Leiden, The Netherlands)
Major collaborations
- Member of the Chemistry in Disks (CID) Project. CID is an international consortium of 20 people between the MPIA (Heidelberg, Germany), Bordeaux Observatory (Bordeaux, France), IRAM (Grenoble, France), SETI Institute (Mountain View, USA), Institute of Astronomy and Astrophysics (Taiwan, China), Jena Observatory (Jena, Germany), University of Virginia (Charlottesville, USA), and Konkoly Observatory (Budapest, Hungary).
Invited conference talks and seminars
- 2023: Review talk at Protostars and Planets VII (Kyoto, Japan): "Accretion Variability as a Guide to Stellar Mass Assembly"
- 2023: invited talk at L’Institut Français (Budapest) for a conference to highlight the work of French and Hungarian women in science
- 2022: discussion moderator for the topic of accretion processes and winds at Inside 2022 – The Inner Regions of Protoplanetary Disks, a conference in the memory of Prof. Dr. Willy Kley (Ringberg, Germany)
- 2022: review talk at the Planet and binary formation in gravitationally unstable protoplanetary discs in the high-resolution era conference (Leicester, UK): "Episodic accretion in the light of the latest observations"
- 2022: EuroScience Open Forum (ESOF2022) in the special session SS3.2 Musica Universalis: From Brains to Stars (Leiden, The Netherlands)
- 2022: summary and final discussion at The next generation mid/far-IR space missions – Formulating a European perspective conference (France, held virtually)
- 2021: review talk at Star Formation: from Clouds to Discs – a Tribute to the Career of Lee Hartmann (Malahide, Ireland): "Observational properties of outbursting young stars"
- 2021: plenary lecture at the European Astronomical Society Annual Meeting (Leiden, The Netherlands, held virtually): "Star formation in the limelight"
- 2021: invited talk at the annual ESO Users Committee Meeting (Garching, Germany, held virtually): "A sharp view of the disks of young eruptive (and other) stars: Circumstellar disk research with the VLTI in Hungary"
- 2020: keynote speaker at the IAU Early Career Astronomer (ECA) 2020 Conference, Paris, France
- 2020: review at the European Astronomical Society Annual Meeting, special session on Registering the Universe at the highest spatial accuracy: "A sharp view of the circumstellar disks of young eruptive stars"
- 2019: Festival of Hungarian Science, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest: "Por, jég és molekuláris gáz a csillag- és bolygókeletkezésben" (Dust, ice and molecular gas in star- and planet formation)
- 2019: Seminar talk, University of Bern, Switzerland: "FU Orionis-type young eruptive stars and their envelopes: the links between Class I and Class II protostars?"
- 2019: Seminar talk, Observatory of Geneva, Switzerland: "Irregular variability during star formation: what can we learn about the circumstellar material?"
- 2019: Leó Szilárd colloquium, Budapest University of Technology and Economics: "The invisible light of young stars"
- 2019: Seminar talk, Swinburne University, Melbourne, Australia: "FU Orionis-type young eruptive stars and their envelopes: the links between Class I and Class II protostars?"
- 2019: review at the Great Barriers in Planet Formation, Palm Cove, Australia: "Irregular variability during star formation: what can we learn about the circumstellar material?"
- 2019: review at the European Week of Astronomy and Space Science, special session on the physics and chemistry of Class I protostars in the ALMA era, Lyon, France: "FU Orionis-type young eruptive stars and their envelopes: the links between Class I and Class II protostars?"
- 2019: European Research Council information day, Budapest, Hungary: "How did I get an ERC grant?"
- 2018: Seminar talk at Liège University, Liège, Belgium: "Magnetic field and accretion in the young eruptive star EX Lupi"
- 2018: The 189th assembly of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences: "Star formation studies with new interferometric instruments"
- 2017: Statistics in the world of sciences, a conference organized for the 150th anniversary of the foundation of the Hungarian Central Statistical Office: "Statistics in Astronomy"
- 2016: review at the European Week of Astronomy and Space Science, special session on Episodic accretion in star formation, Athens, Greece: "Observational properties of outbursting sources"
- 2016: Astrochemistry Workshop, Floirac, France: "Gas in evolved disks"
- 2015: review at the Symposium of the International Astronomical Union #314, Atlanta, GA, USA. Title: "Debris disks in nearby young moving groups in the ALMA era"
- 2014: Oort Workshop on Episodic Accretion, Leiden Observatory, The Netherlands. Title: "EXors"
- 2012: ALMA Community Days, ESO, Garching, Germany. Title: "The origin of molecular gas in the oldest gaseous debris disk system HD 21997"
- 2012: Seminar talk at the StarPlan center, Copenhagen, Denmark. Title: "The extreme outburst of the young eruptive star EX Lupi in 2008"
- 2010: Gaia Science Alerts Workshop, Cambridge, UK. Title: "Irregular variability during early stellar evolution: what can we learn about the circumstellar material?"
Observing experience
- Wrote successful proposals and obtained data from: James Webb Space Telescope (JSWS), Spitzer Space Telescope, Herschel Space Observatory, Kepler K2 mission, IRAM NOEMA Interferometer, IRAM 30 m Telescope, Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array, Atacama Pathfinder Experiment, Very Large Telescope, NASA Infrared Telescope Facility (IRTF), Combined Array for Research in Millimeter-wave Astronomy (CARMA), James Clerk Maxwell Telescope (JCMT), Gran Telescopio CANARIAS (GTC), Effelsberg Radio Telescope, William Herschel Telescope, Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope (CFHT), IAC-80 Telescope, Carlos Sanchez Telescope, Rapid Eye Mount Telescope, 1m-class telescopes of Konkoly Observatory.
Publications
- 179 refereed publications in international journals; 80 articles in international conference proceedings and other electronic publications
- Cumulative impact factor: 998.9
- Number of total(independent) citations: 6425(4070)
- Hirsch-index: 40(38)
- ADS link to list of publications
Public outreach and media appearances