Róbert Vértesi

Curriculum Vitae

Education

• Debrecen University (PhD 2011)
  PhD in Physics
  Thesis: Exploring Hot, Strongly Interacting Matter with the PHENIX experiment at RHIC (2011), advisors: Prof. G. Dávid, Prof. T. Csörgő
  
• Budapest University of Technology and Economics (MSc 2002)
  MSc, Engineer-Physicist specialized on Nuclear Technology
  Thesis: Meson Production in Two-Photon interactions at the OPAL Experiment (2002), advisor: Prof. D. Horváth
  

Research experience

• Senior Research Fellow, Wigner Research Centre for Physics, Budapest, Hungary (2017–)
  • Leader, Hadron Physics research group (2019–)
  • Deputy, ALICE-Hungary group (2016–)
  • Coordinator, ALICE Heavy Flavor Jets Physics Analysis Group (2021–2023)
  • Coordinator, ALICE Heavy Flavor Jets and Correlations Physics Analysis Group (2020–2021)
  Research topic: Heavy-flavor physics in high-energy collisions, small colliding systems; experiment (LHC ALICE) and phenomenology
• "Wigner" postdoctoral fellow, Wigner Research Centre for Physics, Budapest, Hungary (2015–)
  Research topic: Heavy-flavor physics in high-energy collisions, small colliding systems; experiment (LHC ALICE) and phenomenology
• Postdoctoral fellow, Nuclear Physics Institute of the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, Řež/Prague, Czechia (2012–2015)
  Research topic: Femtoscopy and heavy-flavor physics in high-energy collisions; experiment (RHIC STAR)
• Student Researcher on Fulbright Fellowship, Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, NY, USA (2006–2007)
  Research topic: Direct photons and neutral pions in high-energy heavy-ion collisions: experiment (RHIC PHENIX)
• Junior research fellow, KFKI Research Institute for Particle and Nuclear Physics, Budapest, Hungary (2006–2011)
  Research topic: Femtoscopy, direct photons and neutral pions in high-energy heavy-ion collisions: experiment (RHIC PHENIX) and phenomenology
• Student Researcher on Marie Curie Fellowship, Ludwig Maximillans University, Munich, Germany (2003)
  Research topic: Development of the CERN LHC ATLAS muon chambers
• Summer Student at CERN (OPAL) Geneva, Switzerland (2002)
  Research topic: Two-photon interactions with the CERN LEP OPAL experiment

research interests

Awards, fellowships

• Lajos Jánossy prize, Loránd Eötvös Physical Society, Hungary (2022)
• János Bolyai research fellowship, Hungarian Academy of Sciences (2016—2020)
• Géza Györgyi prize, KFKI Research Institute for Particle and Nuclear Physics (2011)
• Best poster award, RHIC Users’ Meeting 2010, BNL, Upton New York, USA (2010)
• Poster selected for flash plenary talk, Quark Matter 2009, Knoxville Tennessee, USA (2009)
• Fulbright Foreign Student Researcher Fellowship, Brookhaven National Laboratory (2006–2007)
• Marie Curie student fellowship, Ludwig Maximilians University, Munich, Germany (2003)
• CERN Summer Student program, CERN (2002)

Project leader

• NKFIH OTKA FK 131979 "Investigation of collective phenomena and multiple-parton interactions in small systems created at LHC energies using light- and heavy-flavor" (2019–)
• NKFIH 2019-2.1.6-NEMZ_KI-2019-00007"Fragmentation of Heavy Flavor in the CERN LHC ALICE Experiment" (2023)
• "Wigner" distinguished research group, Wigner RCP (2019, 2021, 2022, 2023)

Professional activities and responsibilities

• International Symposium on Multiparticle Dynamics, LOC member (2023)
• Zimányi School on Relativistic Heavy Ion Collisions, organizer (2009, 2011, 2017–)
• STAR Regional meeting, Prague, Czechia, LOC member (2014)
• PHENIX Collaboration meeting (Debrecen), LOC member (2005)
• International Conference of Physics Students, LOC member (2002)

• Editor, MDPI Particles (2020–)
• Hungarian delegate, Advisory Committee of CERN Users (2018–2022)
• Member of the Public Body, Hungarian Academy of Sciences (2016–)
• Member of the Loránd Eötvos Physical Society (2016–)
• Hungarian Association of Physics students, president (2000–2001)

Students and classes

teaching activity

Talks and Publications

publications

talks