Gábor Veres

Gábor Veres

full professor

PhD (Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest, 2002)

Habilitation (Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest, 2014)

Doctor of HAS (2013)

Department of Atomic Physics
MTA-ELTE Lendület CMS Particle and Nuclear Physics Group

Room(s): Lágymányos Campus, Northern Building 3.83
Phone(s): +36-1-372-2759
Extension(s): +36-1-372-2500 / 6334
Email: uh.etle.snedul@gv

Biography:

EDUCATION
ELTE, Budapest, Hungary
1998-2002 PhD studies, Particle and Nuclear Physics, summa cum laude
1993-1998 MSc studies, Particle Physics, Degree with honours

RESEARCH EXPERIENCE

CERN, Geneva, Switzerland
2012-14 Research Staff, CMS experiment.
• Convener, Heavy Ion Group (2011-12)
• Convener, Forward and small-x QCD group (2014-15)

CERN, Geneva, Switzerland
2009-10 Research Fellow, CMS experiment.
• Minimum bias trigger for CMS
• The first publication of the CMS experiment: particle spectra at 0.9 and 2.36 TeV
1997- NA49 Collaboration
• Ionization measurement in TPC-s, particle identification and spectra
• Multiwire proportional chamber for charge tagging of fast hadrons
• Antiproton production, momentum loss of baryons in nuclear matter.
1997 Summer Student at the NA49 Experiment. TPC dE/dx calibrations.
1996- CMS Collaboration
• Very Forward Calorimeter in CMS/LHC

ELTE, Budapest
2008 Zoltán Magyary Fellow. PHOBOS and CMS experiments.
2005-2007 Assistant Professor. PHOBOS and CMS experiments.
• jet physics, gamma-jet correlations and charged particle multiplicity in CMS.
• Correlation measurements, charged particle multiplicity and identified charged particle spectra in PHOBOS.
• Studies of Coulomb-breakup of light nuclei at NSCL, East Lansing, USA.
• Managed four research grants in Hungary.

Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Laboratory for Nuclear Science
Cambridge, MA, USA
2005 Visiting scientist stationed at CERN
• Jet physics with CMS experiment.
2004 Senior Postdoctoral Associate
2002-2003 Postdoctoral Associate stationed at Brookhaven National Laboratory, New York, USA
• Scintillator trigger detector system for d-Au collisions
• Transverse momentum spectra of charged and identified hadrons
• Studies of scaling features in the data.
• Managed hardware and physics analysis projects with 2-5 students.

KFKI Research Institute for Particle and Nuclear Physics, Budapest, Hungary
1995-1996 Student project
• Scintillator Grid Time of Flight detector in the NA49 experiment

TEACHING EXPERIENCE
ELTE, Budapest, Hungary
1998-2000 Teaching Assistant and Laboratory Instructor
2005- Leader of the Nuclear Physics Student Laboratory
Experimental particle and nuclear physics, introductory physics courses, exercises in electrodynamics and quantum mechanics

SCHOLARSHIPS AND PROFESSIONAL AWARDS
• Zoltán Magyary Fellowship, 2008
• János Bolyai Fellowship, 2005-2007
• Member of the Eötvös József Collegium, Budapest, Hungary 1993-2001
• Pro Scientia Gold Medal of the National Council of Student’s Association, 1999
• 1st place in the National Scientific Conference of Student’s Association (NSCSA), 1997
• 1st place in the NSCSA, 1996
• Scholarship of the Hungarian Republic, 1995-98
• 1st place in the Rudolf Ortvay Competition in Physics 1993-95 (each year)
• International Physics Olympiad, Williamsburg, VA, USA, 1993: gold medal

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Selected publications of recent years:

  1. Phys.Rev.Lett. 115 (2015) no.1, 012301
  2. Phys.Lett. B765 (2017) 193-220 CrossLink
  3. Phys.Rev. C90 (2014) no.2, 024908