László L. Kiss#
Membership Number: | 3279 |
Membership type: | ORDINARY |
Section: | EARTH & COSMIC SCIENCES |
Elected: | 2012 |
Main Country of Residence: | HUNGARY |
Homepage(s): | http://csfk.org |
ORCID: | 0000-0002-3234-1374 |
Facebook: | https://www.facebook.com/kiss.laszlo.csillagasz |
Linkedin: | https://www.linkedin.com/in/laszlo-kiss-69812ba0/ |
Present and Previous Positions
- 2009 - present Research Advisor & Lendület Fellow, Konkoly Observatory of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Hungary
- 2010 - 2011 Deputy Director of the Konkoly Observatory
- 2009 - 2009 Senior Lecturer (Level C), School of Physics, University of Sydney, Australia
- 2006 - 2008 Lecturer (Level B ), School of Physics, University of Sydney, Australia
- 2002 - 2005 Associate Lecturer (Level A), School of Physics, University of Sydney, Australia
- 2002 - 2002 Assistant Professor, Dept. of Experimental Physics, University of Szeged, Hungary
- 2000 - 2001 Assistant Lecturer, Dept. of Experimental Physics, University of Szeged, Hungary
- 1999 - 2000 Research Fellow, Dept. of Experimental Physics, University of Szeged, Hungary
Fields of Scholarship
- Stellar structure and evolution
- Interacting close binary stars
- Observational techniques: astrometry, photometry, spectroscopy, interferometry
- Transiting exoplanets, exomoons
- Astrophysics of star clusters: cluster variables; kinematic studies
- Small bodies in the Solar System: comets and minor planets
- Stellar oscillations: pulsating red giant stars and variables in the instability strip
Honours and Awards
- 2012-15 Honorary Fellow, School of Physics, University of Sydney
- 2011 Detre László Prize of the Roland Eötvös Physical Society
- 2009 one of the first five awardees of the Lendület Young Researchers' Program of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences
- 2009 Honorary Professor, School of Physics, University of Sydney
- 2008 Certificate of Merit of the Hungarian Astronomical Association
- 2007 Doctor of Science, Hungarian Academy of Sciences
- 2002 Hungarian State Eötvös Fellowship
- 2000 Bolyai János Research Fellowship of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences
- 2000 Silver Medal of the Academic Committee in Szeged, Hungarian Academy of Sciences