Robertus von Fáy-Siebenbürgen (Erdélyi)

senior research associate

PhD (K.U. Leuven, 1996)

Department of Astronomy
Solar Physics

Phone: +36-70-296-3158
Email: uh.etle.ktt@negrubnebeis.trebor

Biography:

Main Work: School of Mathematical and Physical Sciences, The University of Sheffield (TUoS)
Hicks Bldg, Hounsfield Rd., Sheffield, S3 7RH (UK)

1997 Candidatus of Science (Physics)1 with Summa cum laude, Hungarian Academy of Sciences
1996 PhD (Applied Maths) with Summa cum laude, K.U.Leuven, Belgium
1991 MA in History, Eötvös U., Budapest, Hungary
1988 MSc in Physics and Astronomy, Eötvös U., Budapest, Hungary

Membership of Learned Societies/Professional Bodies:
EAS: European Astronomical Society (National representative); EAST: European Association of Solar Telescope
(Elected Member of Exec Board); E-SWAN: European Space Weather and Space Climate Association
(funding member); IAU: International Astronomical Union (Elected Member, Division E Steering Cttee);
MTA: Assembly Member of Hungarian Academy of Sciences; UKSP: Secretary/Chair, UK Solar Physics
1998-2001/2002-2007.

Awards:
2019, 2017 and 2024 Chinese Academy of Sciences President's PIFI award
2013 Royal Astronomical Sociaty Group Achievement Award, with 11 colleagues for UKMHD Consortium
1997 Summa cum laude for CSc in Physics, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest
1996 Summa cum laude for PhD in Applied Mathematics, K.U.Leuven, Belgium
1990 Award of Pro Hungarian Science, Budapest
1988 Summa cum laude with Congratulation of Rector of Eotvos University for M.Sc.(3 awards/year/University)
1987 Fellowship of Republic of Hungary, Budapest (approx. 4 awards/year/Faculty)
1987 1st prize with Highest Distinction at bi-annual Conference for Hungarian Research Students (History)
1987 2nd prize at bi-annual Conference for Hungarian Research Students (Astronomy)
1986 Excellent Student of Eotvos University, Budapest (approx. 5 awards/year/Faculty)

Summary of Key Recent Achievements
Over 330 refereed papers and 70 conference papers. 9xNature Inc. Main Journal 2004, 2012a; Comm
2012b, 2019; SR 2018a,b; Astron 2021a,b; Phys 2022), 3xScience (2007, 2009, 2019), 7xSpace Sci Revs

Grant income (UK Science and Technology Facilities Council (STFC) Rolling/Consolidated Grants (over
20 yrs uninterrupted funding with triennial renewal of order of $1M per round until 2016)) and Standard
Grants, NASA, Horizon 2020, JREI, NATO, ESA, ESF, 3xPIFI CAS, EPSRC, OTKA, Royal Society, British
Council, Leverhulme, INTAS, ISSI, Nu eld, etc.)  $21,2M in past 18 yrs.

One of best supported Professor is Solar Physics in the UK over three years in a row 2015-17.
Highest cited UK solar physicist (2012).

CoI, SPICE of Solar Orbiter mission, Lead CoI & PI HiRISE mission bid (EUR300M). Sci. Director of UK EST Consortium. Exec Ctte, EST-FC, PI of SAMNet Consortium. RAS Group Achievement Award 2013. One of nine international awardee of
Distinguished Professor Award, Hungarian Academy of Sci. 2014. CAS PIFI award (2016, 2019, 2024)

Principal Organiser of 25, major role in another 28 conferences. Director of 15 STFC/EU/etc Summer Schools.
33 PDRAs. Awarded 61 PhD Studentships
50 PhDs successfully completed (9 ongoing). 31 External PhD/MPhil Examiner.

Citations (WoS, ADS, RG, Google Scholar) over 12,400; h-index 60; average citation (ref'ed) 31.6
(28.7); g-index 79, i10-index 223. Normalised total/refereed paper count 136/86. RIS: 4541 (higher than 98%
of Research Gate members)

President-Curator, Hungarian
Solar Physics Foundation. Director, Gyula Bay Zoltan Solar Observatory (GSO).

Elected Member of IAU Division E Steering Committee; National Rep for Europeans Astronomical Society; Member of Directors European Solar Telescope (EST) until 2023; from 2024 Elected Member of Exec Board; Member of Science Advisory Group (SAG) for EST; Chair of one and Member of two other Working Groups of SAG.

Major innovations include (i) developing the tools of solar magneto-seismology (leading NASA, Yahoo, Space.com, etc. news in April 2007; 1xScience 2007, Nature Scienti c Reports 2018a,b); (ii) explanation of the origin and nature of solar energetic jets called spicules (on front cover of Nature vol. 430; Scientific Reports 2018b); (iii) constructing a self-consistent model of steady state excitation of  field line resonances by global waveguide modes in Earth magnetosphere; (iv) simulating solar tornadoes with spectral signatures in non-equilibrium ionisation; (v) solving a classical problem of absolute and convective instabilities
in a compressible uid. (vi) Invited by Science to write article (2007). (vii) Discovery of torsional Alfven waves in the solar atmosphere, Science, 2009. (viii) Discovery of sausage waves on the Sun (2011); (ix) Developing MHD wave theory in dynamic plasmas. (x) Discovery of magnetic swirl heating, Nature (Lett.) 2012, published on front cover. (xi) Discovery of MHD wave heating in chromosphere, Nature (Comm) 2012. (xii) Discovery of MHD sausage instability on Sun (2012). (xiii) Construction of  first full analytical model of solar Active Regions (2013-14). (xiv) Developing spectral theory of non-Hermitian MHD operator, 2016. (xv) Developing market-leading Space Weather forecasting (2016/19). (xvi) Discovering global atmospheric MHD oscillations (2017). (xvii) Discovery of Kelvin-Helholz Instabilities in solar blow-out jets (Nature SR 2018a). (xviii) Discovery
of heating/cooling in oscillating coronal loops (2018b, Nature SR). (xix) Discovery of Alfven swirls in solar atmosphere (2019, Nature Comm). (xx) Discovery of the formation mechanisms of fast spicules (2019, Science) (xxi) Developing AI application to EUV satellite images (2021, Nature Astronomy). (xxii) Developing SAMNet prototype robotic telescope (2020-21); (xxiii) Discovery of m=1 Alfven waves in the Sun (2021, Nature Astronomy). (xxiii) Discovery mechanism of spicule formation in the Sun (2022, Nature Physics). (xxiv) Discovery of photospheric serpentine magnetic  field (ApJ Lett. 2023)

Editor-in-Chief AIMS Geosciences; Associate Editor: Frontiers Astron. Space Sci.; Editor: Astron.
Rev; Astron. Techniques and Instrumentation; (Guest) of Astrophysics and Astronomy, Solar Physics, Space
Sci. Rev., Phil. Trans. of the Royal Society, IAU Colloquia, ESA-SP.

Principal Organiser of 25 (inter)national conferences, major role in another 28 conferences
Principal Organiser of 15 STFC/EU/etc. (inter)national Summer Schools, one in pipeline.

Over 200 Invited Reviews/Talks at overseas and national seminars, conference, workshop (e.g. 5x 2024,
6x 2023, 5x 2021, 7x 2020, 9x 2019, 8x 2018, 11x 2017, 10x 2016).

Links to associated scientific database profiles:

• Publications in MTMT
• Publications in ORCID
• Publications in ResearcherID
• Publications in Scopus
• Publications in Google Scholar
• User profile at doktori.hu

Selected publications of recent years:

1. Solar chromospheric spicules from the leakage of photospheric oscillations and flows | Nature link
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4. Magnetic tornadoes as energy channels into the solar corona | Nature link
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6. Reliability of AI-generated magnetograms from only EUV images | Nature Astronomy link
7. Torsional oscillations within a magnetic pore in the solar photosphere | Nature Astronomy link
8. Polymeric jets throw light on the origin and nature of the forest of solar spicules | Nature Physics link
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10. The Solar Activity Monitor Network – SAMNet | Journal of Space Weather and Space Climate link