Assistant Professor – Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest – 2024-
Previous positions:
Postdoc – HUN-REN-ELTE Theoretical Physics Research Group – 2023-2024
Postdoc – Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest – 2018-2023
Postdoc – Bergische Universität Wuppertal – 2016-2018
Education:
PhD Physics – Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest – 2011-2015
Thesis: Heavy quark systems at finite temperature from lattice QCD
Summa cum laude, particle physics specialization; Supervisor: Sándor Katz
MSc Physics – Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest – 2009-2011
Thesis: High pT hadron production in heavy ion collisions at LHC energies
Diploma with honors, particle physics specialization; Supervisor: Péter Lévai
Summer Student – CERN – 2009
Worked on a trigger algorithm for the ALICE experiment
BSc Physics – Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest – 2006-2009
Thesis: Numerical simulation of primorpial nucleosynthesis
Diploma with honors, research physicist specialization; Supervisor: Attila Csótó
Received fellowships, grants and awards:
Momentum Grant of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences – 2025-2029
PI of research project "The critical endpoint of QCD"
A total of 200 million HUF awarded for 5 years
Károly Novobátzky Prize of the Loránd Eötvös Physical Society - 2025
Awarded to excellent Hungarian theoretical physicists
ELTE Promising Researcher Award - 2024
Winner in the category of Physical Sciences (earth science, astronomy, geology, physics, chemistry) Link to video interview (in Hungarian)
OTKA FK_23 – 2024-2027
PI of research project "The phase diagram of strongly interacting matter from first principles"
A total of 44 million HUF awarded for 4 years
Lattice QCD at non-zero baryon density - 2024
Invited talk at the HHIQCD2024 workshop, Kyoto, Japan
Lattice QCD at non-zero baryon density - 2024
Invited seminar at the University of Stavanger, Norway
Lattice QCD Overview - 2023 Invited plenary talk at Quark Matter 2023, Houston, US
The phase diagram and finite temperature and density - 2023 Invited plenary talk at LATTICE 2023, Fermilab, Chicago, US
Lattice QCD simulations at non-zero baryochemical potential - 2023
Invited seminar talk in the online “CERN Lattice Coffee” series
Finite temperature quantum field theory on the lattice – 2023
Lectures at the third international "Summer School on Methods of Effective Field Theory and Lattice Field Theory" at the DFG Physikzentrum, Bad Honnef
New approaches to lattice QCD at finite density - 2022
Online seminar series on “RHIC Beam Energy Scan: Theory and Experiment”
Bulk thermodynamics from lattice QCD - a mini review - 2022
European Nuclear Physics Conference - Santiago de Compostela, Spain
Lattice simulations of the QCD chiral transition at real baryon density - 2021
MUSES Seminar (joint seminar of Kent State University, The University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign and the University of Houston)
Lattice simulations of the QCD chiral transition at real baryon density – 2021
The XXXIII International workshop on High Energy Physics “Hard Problems of Hadron Physics: Non-Perturbative QCD & Related Quests (invitation only workshop)
QCD thermodynamics at finite baryon density from lattice simulations - 2021
Zimányi School 2021, Budapest