Tamás Csörgő#
| Membership Number: | 2939 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | PHYSICS & ENGINEERING SCIENCES |
| Elected: | 2011 |
| Main Country of Residence: | HUNGARY |
| Homepage(s): | http://mta.hu/koztestuleti_tagok?PersonId=9544 |
Present and Previous Positions
- 2009 - 2011 Department of Physics, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA: visiting research scholar, part time
- 2008- present TOTEM Experiment, CERN, Switzerland: Hungarian Principal Investigator, part time
- 2002- present PHENIX Experiment at RHIC, Brookhaven National Laboratory, USA: Hungarian PI
- 2000, 2003, 2006 USP and UNESP, Sao Paulo, Brazil, guest professor, part time
- 1995, 1996,1997,1999,2000,2001 Columbia University in the City of New York, guest researcher/visiting research scholar
- 2013-present: Wigner Research Centre for Physics, Inst. for Particle and Nuclear Physics, HAS, Scientific Advisor
- 2000-2012: KFKI Research Institute for Particle and Nuclear Physics, HAS, Scientific Advisor
- 1993-2000: KFKI Research Institute for Particle and Nuclear Physics, HAS, Senior Research Fellow
- 1991-1993, KFKI- Central Research Institute of Physics of HAS, Research Assistant
- 1991 - 1992 (Sept- May): Niels Bohr Institute and NORDITA, Copenhagen, Denmark, Postdoctoral Fellow
- 1991 (Febr-Aug), Science College, OTKA, Hung. National Science Fund, Secretary, part time
- 1987-1991, KFKI- Central Research Institute of Physics of HAS, PhD student
Fields of Scholarship
- Hanbury Brown - Twiss effect in high energy physics, pion lasers
- High energy particle physics (both theory and experiment)
- Exact solutions of hydrodynamics
- Quark-Gluon Plasma as a Perfect Fluid
- Diffraction in high energy physics
- High energy heavy ion physics (both theory and experiment)
- Technology transfer and outreach
- Femtoscopy, particle correlations, Bose-Einstein correlations,
- Odderon
Honours and Awards
- 1979, 1980, 1981 First prizes, "Unity of Nature" science competition for Hungarian students
- 1983 First prize, Eötvös Hungarian national competition for students of physics
- 1983 First prize, Ortvay Hungarian national competition for students of physics
- 1994 Go West Fellowship, European Union
- 1996 Györgyi Géza prize, KFKI Research Institute for Particle and Nuclear Physics
- 1996 Advanced Research Award, Fulbright Educational Exchange Programme, US-Hungary
- 1997 Junior Prize, Hungarian Academy of Sciences
- 2000 Prize of the Physics Section of Hungarian Academy of Sciences
- 2001 Alumni Initiatives Award, U.S. Department of State and Fulbright Legacy Fund
- 2006 Prize of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences
- 2007 Qualification of Excellence: Training Course of Hungarian Academy of Sciences on Science Communication and Research Management
- 2008 Senior Leadears and Scholars Award, Hungarian-American Enterprise Scholarship Fund, Council on International Education Exchange, USA
- 2010 Honorary Professor, ELTE University
- 2011 Knight's Cross, Order of Merit, by the President, Republic of Hungary
- 2011 Honorable Mention, State Alumni Member of the Month, by State Department, USA
- 2012 Charles Simonyi Fellowship, Ch. Simonyi Foundation
