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Andras Kovacs

HUN-REN Research Centre for Astronomy and Earth Sciences, Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias, Eotvos Lorand Tudomanyegyetem Természettudományi Kar, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona

Research areas: Physics and Astronomy · Astronomy and Astrophysics · Galaxies: Formation, Evolution, Phenomena · Cosmology and Gravitation Theories · Dark Matter and Cosmic Phenomena

ORCID iD 0000-0002-5825-579X
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KEYWORDS
Cosmology, Dark Energy, Cosmic voids, Cosmic Microwave Background, cross-correlations

INTERNATIONAL COLLABORATIONS
Dark Energy Survey (DES), Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI), Euclid, WEAVE, Pan-STARRS, Rubin-LSST

CURRENT POSITION
2022-pres.: Marie Curie ERA postdoctoral fellow (141,782 EUR) and junior group leader at Konkoly Observatory (Budapest, Hungary), supported by a Lendulet excellence research grant awarded by the Hungarian Academy of Sciences (500,000 EUR, renewable up to 5 years);

PREVIOUS POSITIONS / EDUCATION
2018-2022: Juan de la Cierva Incorporación Postdoctoral Fellow (funded by a Spanish national fellowship, success rate <8%), Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC)
2014-2018: Postdoctoral Fellow (funded by Spanish Severo Ochoa and JdC Formación grants), IFAE, Barcelona
2011-2014: PhD student, Eotvos University, Hungary + extended stays at the University of Hawaii, Supervisors: István Szapudi (Hawaii), Zsolt Frei (Eotvos) PhD thesis title: Statistical Probes of secondary CMB anisotropies and non-Gaussianities
2006-2011: Physics BSc and MSc student, Eotvos University, Hungary, Supervisors: Istvan Szapudi (MSc thesis, cosmology), Istvan Horvath & Zsolt Bagoly (BSc thesis, gamma-ray bursts)

LEADERSHIP, SUPERVISION
*member of the Euclid Consortium Board, representing Hungary
* convener of the DES Voids and Troughs analysis team (20 researchers)
* co-supervisor of PhD students Pauline Vielzeuf (IFAE, def. 2018), Umut Demirbozan (IFAE, 2019-) in Barcelona, also Nestor Arsenov (IAC, exp. def. 2025), Mar Perez (IAC, exp. def. 2026), Mina Ghodsi (Konkoly, exp. def. 2026), Barbara Matecsa (Konkoly, exp. def. 2027), Killian Maxwell (Konkoly, exp. def. 2028)
* secured about 942,000 EUR research funding so far from competitive international grants

PUBLICATIONS, CONGRESSES
* Number of papers = 52, Total citations = 5300, h-index = 33 (inspire-HEP)
* regular speaker at international DES, Euclid, and DESI collaboration meetings
* 50 oral and 12 poster contributions at international conferences

COMMITTEES, SCIENTIFIC REVIEW
* Proposal evaluator for the NASA ADAP program and the Polish Academy of Sciences
* Evaluator in computing time allocation, Swiss National Supercomputing Center (2021-)
* Coordinator of the Summer Fellowship Program, IFAE (2016-18)
* Reviewer for AandA, MNRAS, and ApJ, internal reviewer in DES, Euclid, DESI (2015-)

TEACHING ACTIVITY
* Teaching Assistant (TA) – Basic Computational Techniques, IAC
* Lecturer – Cosmology with python, IFAE
* TA – Electrodynamics, Eotvos University, Hungary

PUBLIC OUTREACH
* Co-leader of the Euclid Education an Public Outreach (EPO) group
* Interviewed by New Scientist Magazine, The Guardian, Qubit
* Helped to create IAC and Fermilab press releases; previous results in collaboration with ELTE researchers led to considerable media attention including a cover story in the Scientific American
* YouTube video with 54,000 views about the Euclid mission, based on a public talk in Hungarian

RESEARCH HIGHLIGHTS
* detection of the CMB imprint of cosmic super-structures (~300 million light-years) from the Dark Energy Survey Year-3 data set, which further challenged the standard standard Lambda-CDM model
* discovery of the Eridanus Supervoid aligned with the infamous CMB Cold Spot anomaly, including follow-up measurements using the state-of-the-art dark matter maps from the Dark Energy Survey

Employment

Education

  • Eotvos Lorand Tudomanyegyetem Természettudományi Kar MSc Physics
    2009 - 2011
  • Eotvos Lorand Tudomanyegyetem Természettudományi Kar BSc Physics
    2006 - 2009

Projects & Funding

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Publications (58)