Máté Csanád

full professor

PhD (Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest, 2007)

Habilitation (Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest, 2013)

Doctor of HAS (2021)

Biography:

Máté Csanád obtained his MSc degree in Physics from Eötvös Loránd University (ELTE), Budapest, in 2004, following studies also at the University of Innsbruck. He conducted his doctoral research at ELTE, complemented by studies at Stony Brook University (NY, USA), and earned his PhD in 2007 (summa cum laude). Supported by a Fulbright Postgraduate Scholarship and later a Senior Leaders and Scholars Fellowship from the Hungarian-American Enterprise Scholarship Fund (HAESF), he carried out part of his research in the United States. After research periods at Stony Brook, Brookhaven National Laboratory, and CERN, he returned to ELTE, where he habilitated in 2013 and earned his Doctor of Science degree from the Hungarian Academy of Sciences in 2021.

His research focuses on the space-time evolution of strongly interacting matter created in high-energy nuclear collisions. He has made major contributions to the experimental and theoretical understanding of the quark–gluon plasma through relativistic hydrodynamic modelling and femtoscopy, elucidating the femtometer-scale structure and dynamics of quark matter. He leads the Hungarian participation in the STAR and PHENIX experiments at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider, and plays an active role in major European collaborations, including CMS, CBM, and NA61. His work spans phenomenology, data analysis, detector calibration, and software development.

Máté Csanád's publication record exceeds one thousand papers, with over a hundred few-author or directly contributed experimental works. He has delivered nearly a hundred talks at international conferences, many as invited or plenary speaker, and serves on several advisory boards and committees. He has co-organized and chaired over twenty international conferences. He leads a research group and has supervised nine PhD dissertations and numerous MSc and BSc theses, with many of his students receiving national and international awards. He has taught more than a hundred university courses in atomic, nuclear, quantum, and environmental physics, and authored several textbooks.

In addition, he initiated applied research bridging high-energy and biomedical physics, including the development of next-generation blood cell analyzers. He is active in outreach, too: gives public presentations, writes popular science news and appears in science podcasts regularly.
His achievements have been recognized by numerous honors, including a US-Hungarian Fulbright Scholarship, the Knight’s Cross Hungarian Order of Merit (by the President of Hungary), the Bolyai Plaque (Hung. Acad. Sci.), the Lajos Jánossy Prize (Eötvös Physical Society), the Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics as a member of the CMS Collaboration. In 2026, he was elected to become a member of the Academia Europaea.

More details (including a full CV) available at the http://csanad.web.elte.hu/personal webpage. 

Links to associated scientific database profiles:

• Publications in MTMT
• Publications in ORCID
• Publications in ResearcherID
• Publications in Scopus
• Publications in Google Scholar
• Publications in inspirehep.net
• Publications in ui.adsabs.harvard.edu
• User profile at doktori.hu

Selected publications of recent years:

1. Excitation function of femtoscopic Lévy source parameters of pion pairs in EPOS4
   Huang, Y., Molnár, M., Kincses, D., Csanád, M.
   Phys.Lett.B 876 (2026) 140423 [arXiv:2512.02560]
2. Three-dimensional sizes and shapes of pion emission in heavy-ion collisions
   Kincses, D., Árpási, E., Kovács, L., Nagy, M., Csanád, M.
   Eur.Phys.J.C 86 (2026) 4, 333 [arXiv:2511.01808]
3. Light Nuclei Femtoscopy and Baryon Interactions in 3 GeV Au+Au Collisions at RHIC
   Aboona, B.E. et al [STAR]
   Phys.Lett.B 864 (2025) 139412 [arXiv:2410.03436]
4. Lévy walk of pions in heavy-ion collisions
   Kincses, D., Nagy, M., Csanád, M.
   Commun.Phys. 8 (2025) 1, 55 [arXiv:2409.10373]
5. Overview of high-density QCD studies with the CMS experiment at the LHC
   Hayrapetyan, Aram et al. [CMS]
   Phys.Rept. 1115 (2025) 219 [arXiv:2405.10785]
6. Centrality dependence of Lévy-stable two-pion Bose-Einstein correlations in sqrt(sNN)=200 GeV Au+Au collisions
   Abdulameer, N. J. et al. [PHENIX]
   Phys.Rev.C 110 (2024) 6, 064909 [arXiv:2407.08586]
7. Two-particle Bose-Einstein correlations and their Lévy parameters in PbPb collisions at sqrt(sNN)=5.02 TeV
   Tumasyan, A. et al. [CMS]
   Phys.Rev.C 109 (2024) 2, 024914 [arXiv:2306.11574]
8. A novel method for calculating Bose–Einstein correlation functions with Coulomb final-state interaction
   Nagy, M., Purzsa, A., Csanád, M., Kincses, D.
   Eur.Phys.J.C 83, 1015 (2023), [arXiv:2308.10745]
9. Two-pion femtoscopic correlations in Be+Be collisions at sqrt(sNN)=16.84 GeV measured by the NA61/SHINE at CERN
   Adhikary, H. et al. [NA61/SHINE]
   Eur.Phys.J.C 83 (2023) 919 [arXiv:2302.04593]
10. Energy dependence of intermittency for charged hadrons in Au+Au collisions at RHIC
    Abdulhamid, M.I. et al. [STAR]
    Phys.Lett.B 845 (2023) 138165 [arXiv:2301.11062]