CURRICULUM VITAE

Surname, first name, title: Csizmadia, Szilárd, Dr. (PhD)

Working address: Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt (DLR),

Institute of Planetary Research

Current Position: Staff Member

Nationality: Hungarian

Birth date and place: June 11, 1975, Zalaegerszeg, Hungary

E-mail: szilard.csizmadia@dlr.de

Research interest: exoplanets, brown dwarfs, Love number determination, phase curves,

planet characterization, eclipsing binary stars, meteors

Languages: Hungarian (native)

English (fluent)

German (intermediate)

Italian (beginner)

Softwares: IDL, C, C++, Linux, Windows

Academic Degrees:
PhD in Astronomy: 2005, Eötvös University, Budapest, Hungary

MSc in Astronomy: 1999, Eötvös University, Budapest, Hungary

MSc in Physics teaching: 1999, Eötvös University, Budapest, Hungary

Grammar school graduation: 1993, Széchenyi Gimnázium Zalaegerszeg, Hungary

Academic Education:
Sep 1989 – Aug 1993: grammar-school: Széchenyi Gimnázium, Zalaegerszeg, Hungary

Sep 1993 – Aug 1999: undergraduate student (Physics), Eötvös University, Budapest

Sep 1995 – Aug 1999: undergraduate student (Astronomy), Eötvös University, Budapest
Sep 1999 – Aug 2002: PhD student in Astronomy, Eötvös University and Konkoly

Observatory, Budapest, Supervisor: Dr. L. Patkós

Title of MSc thesis: Light curve modeling of eclipsing binary stars with the Wilson-Devinney

method

Title of PhD thesis: Photometric investigations of contact eclipsing binaries

Work experience:

Sep 1999 – Aug 2002: Young Researcher Fellowship of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences

(HAS) at Konkoly Observatory of HAS

Sep 2002 – Sep 2007: Research Fellow, Konkoly Observatory of HAS

Nov 2007 – Feb 2008: Research Fellow, Baja Astronomical Observatory, Hungary

March 2008 – May 2008: Research Fellow, Cosmic Geodesic Observatory, Penc, Hungary

May 2008 – present: Researcher, DLR, Institute of Planetary Research, Berlin, Germany

Referee for:

Astronomy and Astrophysics actively: A&A, AJ, ApJ, MNRAS, AN, Astrobiology, PASP,

CeMDA, Ap&SS, New Astronomy,

and also for IBVS until its end of active phase in 2019

Instrumentation: Sensor

Mathematics: Chaos, Solitons and Fractals

Funding proposals:

2017 – 2020: Co-Applicant of FOR 2440/1/SP6 subproject: Matter under Planetary Conditions,

Determination of exoplanetary Love-numbers (250 kEUR)
2020 – 2024: Primary Applicant of FOR 2440/2/SP6 subproject: Matter under Planetary

Conditions, Determination of exoplanetary Love-numbers (250 kEUR)
2017 – 2024: Exploring the Diversity of Extrasolar Planets – SPP1992 proposal, Co-Applicant

(2x300 kEUR)

2020 – 2023: ISSI 493: Getting Ultra-Precise Planetary Radii with PLATO: The Impact of Limb

Darkening and Stellar Activity on Transit Light Curves, PI, ca. 24 kEUR

2022 – 2024: ERASMUS+: The Universe to Youths (outreach activities), PI, 64 720 kEUR

+ four times ca. 1000 EUR as PI and proposal writer for the Vega Astronomical Association from the Hungarian Governmental Fund for Civil Sphere

Teaching activities at universities:

1999-2008: Department of Astronomy, Eötvös University, Budapest (Hungary): Binary Stars,

Meteor Astronomy, Introduction to Astronomy: Spherical Astronomy, Observational

Astrophysical Practices (for students in astronomy and physics), Spherical

Astronomy (for students in cartography). In Hungarian. Supervisor of 3 MSc theses

written by Péter Klagyivik, Béla Somosvári, Gábor Marton

2012-2018: Technische Universität, Berlin, Germany. In English: Astrophysics of Binary Stars,

Observational Astrophysics. Advisor of PhD-thesis of Hugo Hellard (successfully

defended in 2020).

Invited speaker:

Joint 3. Corot Symposium-7. Kepler KASC conference (Toulouse France, 2014)

ESO/OPTICON/IAU summer school on modern instruments, Brno, Czech Republic, 2015

629. WE-Heraeus Seminar on “Exoplanets: Bridging the Gap between Theory and Observations” (Bad Honnef, 2016)

Universe of Binaries, Binaries in the Universe, Telc, Czech Republic, 2019

World Science Forum, Budapest, Hungary, 2019

Konkoly Observatory: Exoplanet Vision 2050, Budapest, Hungary

ISSI Workshop on The Geoscience of (Exo)planets: Going beyond habitability April 8-12, 2024

Memberships:

Editorial Boards:

2017 – 2019: Editorial Board member of the Information Bulletin on Variable Stars

2024 – 2026: Editorial Board member of the Universe (IF: 2.9)

Associations, Committees:

1991 – present: Member of the Vega Astronomical Association

1992 – present: Member of the Hungarian Astronomical Association

1999 – present: Member of the Society for Dissemination of Scientific Knowledge, named

after physicist József Öveges

1994 – 1999: Secretary of the Vega Astronomical Association, Hungary

1999 – present: President of the Vega Astronomical Association

2018 – 2019: Member of the Academic Committee of the 13th International Olympiad in

Astronomy and Astrophysics

2012 – present: Member of the International Meteor Organization

2015 – present: Member of the International Astronomical Union

2019 – present: Member of the Hungarian Meteoritical Society

2012 – 2015: CoI of the CoRoT Exoplanet Science Team

2014 – present: Leader of PLATO Work Package 114: Transit Tools and Analysis

2014 – present: Member of PLATO Science Management

2014 – present: KESPRINT Consortium member, Modeling Work Package leader

2020 – present: CHEOPS Core Science Team Member

SOC-members of the conferences:

PLATO Atmospheres Workshop, 8-10 December, 2021, Virtual

PLATO ESP2018: Stellar variability and its effect on the characterisation of small planets, 24-26 Oct 2018, Marseille

PLATO ESP2019: Single, shallow and strange transits, 2-4 September 2019, University of Warwick

PLATO ESP2020: Planetary Interiors and system architecture (online) 30 November – 3 December 2020

Binary and Multiple Stars in the Eras of Big Sky Surveys, September 9-13, 2024, Lytomisl, Czech Republic

Awards:

2013 Senior membership (honorary title) from Vega Astronomical Association (www.vcse.hu) for service of the Association, helping amateur astronomers, outstanding research on astronomy.

2016 János Hettyei Prize Vega Astronomical Association (www.vcse.hu) for research results in astronomy and popularization of astronomy, also organization of amateur astronomical activities and working for the association.

2020 Certificate of merit from Minister of Human Resources, Hungary for International Olympiad on Astronomy and Astrophysics 2019, helping the preparation of students and serving as Academic Committee member.

2024 Certificate of merit from Minister of Interior, Hungary for helping the preparation of students for the International Olympiad on Astronomy and Astrophysics 2023.

Publication statistics:

h-index: 45.

Number of citations: 7256.

Number of publications and communications in Astrophysical Data System: 379

First-authored publications: 37 (2 book chapters, 23 peer-reviewed papers, 12 conference proceedings and others).

Number of Hungarian-language popularization papers: ca. 462 (only printed ones) according to www.csimabi.hu, and circa 450 online on www.vcse.hu