Péter Lévai#
| Membership Number: | 3263 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | PHYSICS & ENGINEERING SCIENCES |
| Elected: | 2012 |
| Main Country of Residence: | HUNGARY |
| Homepage(s): | http://www.rmki.kfki.hu/~plevai/currieng.html |
Present and Previous Positions
- 2012- present: Director General, WIGNER Research Centre for Physics of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences (HASc), Budapest
- 2010-2011 : Deputy Director, KFKI Research Institute for Particle and Nuclear Physics (KFKI RMKI) of the HASc, Budapest, Hungary
- 2003-2009 : Head of the Theoretical Physics Department, KFKI RMKI of HASc.
- 2002-2003: Visiting Scholar, Physics Department, Kent State University, Kent, OH, USA
- 2001-2002: Scientific Advisor, Theoretical Physics Department, KFKI RMKI of HASc, Budapest, Hungary
- 1999-2000: Visiting Scholar, Physics Department, Columbia University, New York, NY, USA
- 1993-1999: Scientific Fellow, Theoretical Physics Department, KFKI RMKI of HASc, Budapest, Hungary
- 1991-1992: Scientific Associate, Cyclotron Institute, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX, USA
- 1990-1991: Scientific Associate, Physics Department, Duke University, Durham, NC, USA
- 1986-1989: Junior Research Fellow, Theoretical Physics Department, KFKI RMKI of HASc, Budapest, Hungary
Fields of Scholarship
- Shock phenomena
- Quark-gluon plasma
- Particle production in intense fields
- Perturbative QCD
- Strong interactions
- Relativistic hidrodynamics
- Relativistic thermodynamics
- Properties of strongly interacting matter
Honours and Awards
- 2020 Member of European Academy of Sciences and Arts
- 2016 Ordinary Member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences
- 2012 Member of Academia Europaea
- 2010 Corresponding Member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences
- 2007 Knight Cross of the Order of Merit of the Hungarian Republic
- 2006 International Scholar Award of Phi-Beta-Delta (USA)
- 2003 Academy Prize of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences
- 2001 Physics Prize of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences
- 1995 Novobátzky Prize of the Eötvös Loránd Physical Society (Hungary)
- 1993 Youth Prize of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences
- 1989 Youth Prize of the Central Research Institute for Physics (Hungary)
- 1986 Excellent Student of the Faculty of Natural Sciences of the Eötvös University (Hungary)
