Egyetemi tanár
Tel.: (62) 54-4529
e-mail: gergely@physx.u-szeged.hu
László Árpád GERGELY
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University of Szeged, Institute of Physics, Dóm tér 9, 6720 Szeged, Hungary, |
Wigner Research Centre for Physics, Particle and Nuclear Physics, Theory Department, Konkoly-Thege 29-33, 1121 Budapest, Hungary, https://wigner.hu/en/infopages/gergely.laszlo |
Positions
2023–present |
Scientific advisor – Wigner Research Centre for Physics, Budapest, Hungary |
2015–present |
Professor – University of Szeged, Hungary |
2013–2014 |
Visiting professor, JSPS invitation fellow – Tokyo University of Science, Japan (10 months) |
2011 |
Visiting researcher – University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong (2 months) |
2009 |
Visiting fellow – Institute for Advanced Study, Collegium Budapest, Hungary (5 months) |
2009–2015 |
Associate professor – University of Szeged, Hungary |
2007–2009 |
Senior lecturer, IoP – South Bank University, London, UK (15 months) |
2003, 2004 |
Visiting researcher, Eötvös fellow – Inst.of Cosmology & Gravitation, Univ. of Portsmouth, UK (6 months) |
2000–2008 |
Senior research associate, Magyary, Széchenyi, Bolyai fellow – University of Szeged, Hungary |
2000 |
Professeur invité – Université Louis Pasteur, Strasbourg, France (3 months) |
1998–2000 |
Visiting researcher, Eötvös, Soros fellow – Université Louis Pasteur, Strasbourg, France (19 months) |
1996–2000 |
Senior research associate, OTKA fellow – Kfki Research Institute Budapest, Hungary |
1995 |
Visiting researcher, OTKA fellow – University of Utah, Salt Lake City, USA (12 months) |
1993–1996 |
Lecturer – Jate University, Szeged, Hungary |
1990–1993 |
TMB fellow of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences – Kfki Research Institute Budapest, Hungary |
1988–1990 |
Research physicist – IMPF Odorheiu-Secuiesc, Romania |
Education, qualification
2013 |
Doctor of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences (title required for Full Professorship) Thesis: Gravitationally radiating compact binaries and research in brane worlds |
2008 |
Habilitation in Physics – University of Szeged, Hungary (title required for Associate Professorship) Research Talk: Post-Newtonian dynamics of compact binaries and their gravitational radiation. Public Lecture: Black holes |
1996 |
PhD (CSci) in Physics, Hungarian Academy of Sciences (with maximal points) Dissertation: Vacuum-vacuum Kerr-Schild maps. Supervisor: Zoltán Perjés |
1988 |
Masters in Physics, University of Bucharest, Romania (10 points out of 10) Thesis: Local inertial systems in general relativity. Supervisor: Mihai Vişinescu |
1987 |
BSc in Physics, University of Bucharest, Romania (9.97 points out of 10, top 2% of the class) Thesis: Space-time and gauge symmetries in the fundamental interactions. Supervisor: Mihai Vişinescu |
1982 |
Baccalaureate, Áprily Lajos Főgimnázium, Brassó, Romania, Mathematics & Physics class (10 points out of 10) |
Languages |
Hungarian (maternal), English (fluent), Romanian (fluent), French (intermediate), German, Italian (basic), Japanese (few worlds) |
Responsabilities at the University of Szeged
2019 - |
LASCALA International Masters Coordinator |
2019 - |
University Doctoral Council substitute member |
2018 - |
Natural and Technical Sciences Doctoral Council member, Faculty of Natural Sciences and Informatics |
2017 - |
Scientific Council member, Faculty of Natural Sciences and Informatics |
2015 - |
Core member, Physics Doctoral School |
2010 - |
ERASMUS Coordinator, Institute of Physics |
Scientometry
Publications: 403(ORCID),361(ADS),309(Scopus),285 (WoS) |
Citations: 94712(Scholar), 75384(ADS), 64039(Scopus), 45174 (WoS) |
Conference talks: 156 (invited: 64) |
H-index: 100(Scholar), 89(ADS), 82(Scopus), 76(WoS) |
Breakdown of publications: 161 short author list papers + 183 LIGO papers + teaching, popularizing works, theses |
Memberships
2023 - |
Member of the JSPS Alumni Association of the UK and Republic of Ireland |
2022 - |
Management Committee member, CA21136 - Addressing observational tensions in cosmology with systematics and fundamental physics (CosmoVerse) |
2019 - 2023 |
Management Committee member, COST Action CA18108: Quantum gravity phenomenology in the multi-messenger approach (QG-MM) |
2017 - |
President, Physics Work Committee, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Szeged Branch |
2017 - 2021 |
Management Committee member, COST Action CA16104: Gravitational waves, black holes and fundamental physics (GWverse) |
2016 - |
Scientific Committee member of the Particle Physics Section of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences |
2016 - 2020 |
Management Committee member, COST Action CA15117: Cosmology and Astrophysics Network for Theoretical Advances and Training Actions (CANTATA) |
2015 - 2018 |
Council member, Roland Eötvös Physical Society, Hungary |
2014 - |
Editorial Board member, Universe, MDPI Switzerland http://www.mdpi.com/journal/universe/editors |
2014 - |
Council member, LIGO Scientific Collaboration (LSC) |
2007 - 2015 |
Council member, VIRGO-ESO Scientific Forum (VESF) |
2010 - 2014 |
Management Committee member, COST Action MP0905: Black Holes in a Violent Universe |
2009 - 2014 |
Member, LIGO Scientific Collaboration (LSC) |
2004 - 2011 |
Member, Cosmology of Fundamental Interactions Collaboration (COSMOFUN) |
2004 - 2008 |
Member, International Society on General Relativity and Gravitation |
Honors |
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2023, 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019 |
Top 2% of researchers of all specialities, ranked (w.o. self-citations): 75662 (2023), 77602 (2022), 82506 (2021), 87903 (2020), 104364 (2019); In Nuclear and Particle Physics (w.o. self-citations): 1212 (2023), 1263 (2022), 1379 (2021), 939 (2020). https://elsevier.digitalcommonsdata.com/datasets/btchxktzyw/6?fbclid=IwAR1j612sBne7-nK2xLUCDzZmQcnQlAYB_EwIH3SvQ_wenjPVSA9oeclkfdk |
2022 |
Order of Merit of the Hungarian Republic, Officer's Cross, President of Hungary |
2021 |
Researcher of the Year, University of Szeged |
2018 |
Ad Astra Award in Earth and Space Sciences, Ad Astra Foundation http://ad-astra.ro/2018/12/28/castigatorii-premiilor-ad-astra-editia-a-iii-a-2018/?fbclid=IwAR05Ihq-zxoIRBU4JlyGLTzNfgNoSxnl6yzO-2jGCqH-0wgApTefbYoNSyo |
2017 (as member of LIGO SC) |
Princess of Asturias Award for Technical and Scientific Research given to Rainer Weiss, Kip S. Thorne, Barry C. Barish and LIGO Scientific Collaboration, Fundación Princesa de Asturias http://www.fpa.es/en/princess-of-asturias-awards/laureates/2017-rainer-weiss-kip-s-thorne-barry-c-barish-and-ligo-scientific-collaboration.html?especifica=0&idCategoria=0&anio=2017&especifica=0 |
2017 (as member of LIGO SC) |
Bruno Rossi Prize awarded to Gabriela González and the LIGO Scientific Collaboration for the first direct detections of gravitational waves, for the discovery of merging black hole binaries, and beginning the new era of gravitational-wave astronomy, American Astronomical Society https://aas.org/posts/news/2017/01/head-rossi-prize-goes-gabriela-gonzález-ligo-team |
2017 (as member of LIGO SC) |
RAS Group Achievement Award ‘A’ in astronomy given to the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory (LIGO) team, Royal Astronomical Society https://www.ras.org.uk/images/stories/awards/winners/2017/LIGO 2017 Group Achievement Award A.pdf |
2016 (as member of LIGO SC) |
Special Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics awarded for detection of Gravitational Waves 100 years after Albert Einstein predicted their existence, Milner Global Foundation |
2016 (as member of LIGO SC) |
Gruber Cosmology Prize awarded to Rainer Weiss, Kip Thorne, Ronald Drever, and the entire LIGO team for pursuing a vision to observe the universe in gravitational waves, leading to a first detection that emanated from the collision of two black holes, Gruber Foundation http://gruber.yale.edu/cosmology/press/2016-gruber-cosmology-prize-press-release |
2014 |
János Szentágothai Experienced Researcher Fellow, Hungarian National Excellence Program |
2013 |
JSPS Invitation Fellow, Japan Society for the Promotion of Science |
2009 |
Bolyai Medal of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences |
2006 |
Honorable Mention in the Gravity Research Foundation’s Essays in Gravitation Competition Essay title: “Dark energy from gravitational collapse?” |
2005 – 2008 |
János Bolyai Fellow of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences |
2002 – 2005 |
István Széchenyi Fellow of the Hungarian Ministry of Education |
2000 – 2002 |
Zoltán Magyary Fellow of the Hungarian Ministry of Education |
2003, 1999, 1998 |
Roland Eötvös Fellow of the Hungarian Ministry of Education |
1998 |
Géza Györgyi Award of the KFKI Research Institute for Particle and Nuclear Physics |
1998, 1994 |
Fellow of the Soros Foundation |
1993-1994 |
Fellow of the Foundation for Hungarian Science, Hungarian Loan Bank |
2017-2023 |
Gravitational waves and their sources in the strong field regimes of generalised gravity theories (NKFI research grant 123996, PI) |
2012-2015 |
Black hole horizon by accelerating electrons (TÁMOP-4.2.2.A-11/1/KONV-2012-0060, EU; research topic PI) |
2014 |
Black hole binary dynamics and gravitational radiation (TÁMOP-4.2.4.A/ 2-11/1-2012-0001, Hungarian National Excellence Program, EU; individual award) |
2013-2014 |
Gravitational waves testing cosmology and alternative gravity theories (JSPS, Japan; individual award) |
2012-2014 |
Spinning gravitational waveforms: optimized modeling for supercomputers and search in the LIGO data (TÁMOP-4.2.2.C-11/1/KONV, EU; research topic PI) |
2012 |
Periodic jet structures by merging supermassive spinning black holes (COST, EU; individual award) |
2010 |
Gravitational wave background from supermassive black hole mergers (COST, EU; individual award) |
2008 |
Research in gravitation (LSBU Research Opportunities Fund, UK; individual award) |
2005- |
ERASMUS (with Universities of Bonn, Portsmouth, Naples, Umeå, Montpellier, Braşov, Cluj-Napoca) |
2007-2010 |
Gravitation and astro-particle physics (OTKA research grant 69036; consortial partner PI) |
2004-2007 |
Brane-cosmologies and gravitational radiation phenomena (OTKA research grant 46939; PI) |
2003-2006 |
Gravitational waves and waves in general relativity (OTKA research grant 44665; consortial partner PI) |
2003 |
Mecenatúra Travel Grant (Hungarian Ministry of Education; individual award) |
1996-1998 |
Research in general relativity (OTKA postdoctoral fellowship and grant; individual award) |
1995, 2003 |
Travel Grants (OTKA; individual awards) |
Scientific service
Referee for |
Physical Review Letters; Physical Review D; Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics; Classical and Quantum Gravity; General Relativity and Gravitation; Physics Letters B; Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society; Astrophysics and Space Science; European Physical Journal C, Plus; International Journal of Modern Physics A, D; Entropy; Galaxies; Universe |
Reviewer |
Italy: Italian Ministry for Education, University and Research (MIUR); Piscopia Fellowship Programme (University of Padova); France: LE STUDIUM Loire Valley Institute for Advanced Studies; Netherlands: Organisation for Scientific Research (NOW); Czech Republic: Czech Science Foundation; Poland: National Science Centre (NCN); Romania: National Council for Scientific Research of the Romanian Government; Romanian National Council for Reseach and Development; New Zealand: Marsden Foundation; Hong-Kong: The Education Uiversity of Hong Kong; Hungary: Hungarian Scientific Research Fund (OTKA); Hungarian Academy of Sciences Bolyai Fellowships, Wigner Institute Györgyi Géza Award, Hungarian Scientific Student Conferences (Western Hungarian Univ., Szombathely 2009; Babes-Bolyai Science University, Kolozsvár 2015) |
Conference organising, advisory board member |
Quantum Gravity School (Univ. Szeged, Hungary 2012) http://www.kfki.hu/~elftrfsz/iskola_2012.html |
7th Bolyai-Gauss-Lobachevsky Conference on Hyperbolic Geometry Babes-Bolyai Science University, Cluj, Romania 2010 |
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Pomeranian Workshop in Fundamental Cosmology University of Szczecin, Pobierowo, Poland 2005 http://cosmo.fiz.univ.szczecin.pl/cosmofun/ |
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Science Monitor |
Laser Interferometer Gravitational Wave Observatory (Livingston site, US, Nov. 1-10. 2009) |
Referee for for Academic Doctorate Thesis / PhD Thesis
2021 |
Edit Fenyvesi (Univ. Debrecen, Debrecen, Hungary; PhD): Study of the infrasound background noise of interferometric gravitational wave detectors |
2018 |
József Vinkó (Hungarian Academy of Sciences, DrMTA): Astrophysics of supernova explosions |
2013 |
Merse Előd Gáspár (Eötvös University, Budapest, Hungary; PhD): Dynamics of spherical shells, shell systems and applications in general relativity |
2013 |
Zoltán Lippai (Eötvös University, Budapest, Hungary; PhD): Numerical methods in investigating quasar populations, quasars and active galactic nuclei |
2011 |
István Rácz (Hungarian Academy of Sciences, DrMTA): Black holes in the geometrized theories of gravity |
2009 |
László B. Szabados (Hungarian Academy of Sciences, DrMTA): Gravitational conserved quantities and the canonical structure of general relativity |
2008 |
Daniel Eriksson (University of Umeå, Sweden; PhD): Perturbative Methods in General Relativity [ http://www.diva-portal.org/umu/theses/abstract.xsql?dbid=1488 ] |
2007 |
János Majár (Eötvös University, Budapest, Hungary; PhD): Gravitational waves from compact binaries |
2007 |
Bence Kocsis (Eötvös University, Budapest, Hungary; PhD): Astrophysical applications of gravity waves |
2006 |
Viktor Czinner (Eötvös University, Budapest, Hungary; PhD): Linear perturbations of the late-time universe in the presence of a cosmological constant |
2003 |
Burin Gumjudpaj (Institute of Cosmology and Gravitation, University of Portsmouth, UK; PhD): Brane-world effects on cosmological dynamics |
2002 |
Katalin Varjú (Univ. Szeged, Hungary; PhD): Quantum tests for non-inertial and general relativistic effects |
Teaching experience at the University of Szeged
PhD courses: Modern Cosmology, Constrained Dynamical Systems, Advanced General Relativity, Brane-worlds |
Masters courses and seminars: General Relativity, Cosmology, Celestial Mechanics, Relativistic Astrophysics, Particle Physics, Electrodynamics in Media, Theory and Detection of Gravitational Waves |
Undergraduate courses and seminars: Introduction to General Relativity, Foundations of Relativity, Electromagnetism and Special Relativity, Electrodynamics, Mathematical Methods in Physics, Electromagnetism, Thermodynamics, Theoretical Mechanics, History of Physics, The Elegant Universe |
Teaching experience at other universities
London South Bank University, UK |
Scientific Principles, Introductory Mathematics, Physics Curriculum development for Integrated Sciences Hon. Degree |
Université Louis Pasteur, Strasbourg, France |
Mechanics |
University of Utah, Salt Lake City, USA |
Mechanics, Astronomy |
Supervising activity
Several students at the University of Szeged have completed Master Theses in astrophysics, cosmology and general relativity under my supervision, many of them obtaining prizes at Hungarian national student competitions. I supervised 14 BSc, 14 MSc, 8 PhD students and 5 postdoctoral researchers. I have been involved in the PhD defense process of students at the University of Szeged, Eötvös University in Budapest (Hungary), University of Portsmouth (UK), and University of Umeå (Sweden). I collaborated and co-authored papers with PhD and Master students at the University of Utah (USA), University of Portsmouth (UK), University of Umeå (Sweden), University of Hong Kong (China) and Tokyo University of Science (Japan). |
Supervised PhD Students
Zoltán Keresztes: |
Randall-Sundrum type II brane-worlds and a tachyonic dark energy model (Summa Cum Laude 2010) |
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position after: Postdoctoral position, University of Szeged, HU |
Balázs Mikóczi: |
Post-Newtonian evolution of compact binaries (Summa Cum Laude 2011) |
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position after: Postdoctoral position, Wigner Research Centre for Physics Budapest, HU |
Zsolt Horváth: |
Gravitational lensing in alternative gravitational theories (Summa Cum Laude 2014) |
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position after: Postdoctoral position, University of Szeged, HU |
Emma Kun: |
Revealing supermassive black hole binaries via the signatures in the jets of radio-loud active galactic nuclei (Summa Cum Laude 2017) position after: Postdoctoral position, University of Szeged, HU |
Márton Tápai: |
Gravitational waves from spinning compact binaries (expected in 2024) position after: Physicist, SemiLab, Szeged, HU |
Bence Racskó: |
Junction conditions in modified gravity (expected in 2024) |
Bence Juhász |
Black hole thermodynamics and quantisation (started in 2023) |
Attila Fóris |
Backreaction of strong gravitational waves (started in 2023) |
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Supervised Postdoctoral Researchers
Zoltán Kovács: |
Hamiltonian brane-world dynamics |
(2006-07) |
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position after: Postdoctoral position, University of Hong Kong, China SAR |
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Zoltán Keresztes: |
Cosmology and dark energy models |
(2010-15) |
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position after: Assistant Professor, University of Szeged, Hungary |
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Krisztina Gabányi: |
Radio interferometry of AGNs and binary system candidates |
(2013-14) |
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position after: Postdoctoral position, FÖMI Satellite Geodetic Observatory, Penc, Hungary |
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Zsolt Horváth: |
Modified gravity |
(2014-15) |
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position after: Physicist, SemiLab, Budapest, Hungary |
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Emma Kun: |
Radio jets and rotation curves |
(2017-19) |
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Position after: Postdoctoral position, Institute of Astronomy, Budapest, Hungary |
Science dissemination
Popularising articles on cosmology, 15 parts, Interpress Magazin (2019-2023) |
Interviews: on wormholes (Hungarian TV Channel 2, on 23th October 2005) |
on gravitational waves (DVD documentary: Einstein’s finished symphony, 2006) |
on BICEP2 results (Hungarian newspaper Magyar Nemzet, on 20th March 2014) |
on the detection of gravitational waves (in various Hungarian TV and Radio Channels, newspapers, 2016-2019) |
on the work on Stephen Hawking (in various Hungarian Radio Channels, online portals, April 2018) |
English Hungarian translation: Brian Greene: The Elegant Universe. Superstrings, Hidden Dimensions and the Quest of a Final Theory, Akkord Publisher, Budapest, 2003, ISBN 963 9429 32 5 |
Roger Penrose (with A.Shimony, N.Cartwright, S.Hawking): The Large, the Small and the Human Mind, Akkord Publisher, Budapest, 2004, ISBN 963 9429 51 1 Referee of the English Hungarian translation: |