University of Szeged, Institute of Physics,

Dóm tér 9, 6720 Szeged, Hungary,

http://www.staff.u-szeged.hu/~gergely/

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

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

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)

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

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

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

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

https://breakthroughprize.org/News/32

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)

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

7^th Bolyai-Gauss-Lobachevsky Conference on Hyperbolic Geometry

Babes-Bolyai Science University, Cluj, Romania 2010

Pomeranian Workshop in Fundamental Cosmology

University of Szczecin, Pobierowo, Poland 2005 http://cosmo.fiz.univ.szczecin.pl/cosmofun/

Science Monitor

Laser Interferometer Gravitational Wave Observatory (Livingston site, US, Nov. 1-10. 2009)

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

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

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

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).

Zoltán Keresztes:

Randall-Sundrum type II brane-worlds and a tachyonic dark energy model (Summa Cum Laude 2010)

position after: Postdoctoral position, University of Szeged, HU

Balázs Mikóczi:

Post-Newtonian evolution of compact binaries (Summa Cum Laude 2011)

position after: Postdoctoral position, Wigner Research Centre for Physics Budapest, HU

Zsolt Horváth:

Gravitational lensing in alternative gravitational theories (Summa Cum Laude 2014)

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)

Zoltán Kovács:

Hamiltonian brane-world dynamics

(2006-07)

position after: Postdoctoral position, University of Hong Kong, China SAR

Zoltán Keresztes:

Cosmology and dark energy models

(2010-15)

position after: Assistant Professor, University of Szeged, Hungary

Krisztina Gabányi:

Radio interferometry of AGNs and binary system candidates

(2013-14)

position after: Postdoctoral position, FÖMI Satellite Geodetic Observatory, Penc, Hungary

Zsolt Horváth:

Modified gravity

(2014-15)

position after: Physicist, SemiLab, Budapest, Hungary

Emma Kun:

Radio jets and rotation curves

(2017-19)

Position after: Postdoctoral position, Institute of Astronomy, Budapest, Hungary

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: