Ágnes Kóspál, Author at SACCRED

Ágnes Kóspál’s talk at the French Institute in Budapest

Ágnes Kóspál — Fri, 31 Mar 2023 13:11:00 +0000

The role of women in science was discussed for the third time at a forum initiated by the French Institute in Budapest, in collaboration with the Women in Science Association (NaTE). At the conference held on March 27, 2023, Hungarian and French female researchers from different scientific fields, including SACCRED PI Ágnes Kóspál, shared their experiences and best practices.

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Press release: Long-lost crystals in the protoplanetary disk of a young star were successfully rediscovered with the James Webb Space Telescope

Ágnes Kóspál — Fri, 17 Mar 2023 14:17:00 +0000

An international team led by researchers from the Konkoly Observatory at the ELKH Research Centre for Astronomy and Earth Sciences (CSFK), used the MIRI spectrograph onboard the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) to study the circumstellar disk of the Sun-like young star EX Lupi. Thanks to the exquisite sensitivity of the instrument, they rediscovered long-lost silicate crystals that had formed in an earlier outburst of EX Lupi. In the infrared spectrum of EX Lupi’s disk, they also detected molecules that are essential ingredients for the development of life, among others carbon monoxide and water vapor. The crystals that formed in a hot environment have now moved to a colder part of the protoplanetary disk that encircles the star, where they may become parts of forming comets and planets. This provides a possible explanation for the high amount of crystalline grains in comets in our own solar system. A study with the results of the research was published in the Astrophysical Journal Letters.

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Press release: The Gaia Collaboration including CSFK researchers wins 2023 Berkeley Prize for creation of revolutionary new 3D map of the Milky Way

Ágnes Kóspál — Mon, 28 Nov 2022 14:21:00 +0000

The Konkoly Thege Miklós Astronomical Institute of the ELKH Research Centre for Astronomy and Earth Sciences (CSFK) and several Hungarian researchers are part of the consortium that has been awarded the 2023 Lancelot M. Berkeley – New York Community Trust Meritable Work in Astronomy Prize. The prize was awarded to the consortium responsible for the implementation of the Gaia project for creating the largest and most accurate three-dimensional map of the Milky Way.

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Eleonora Fiorellino’s talk at ESO’s Hypatia Colloquium program

Ágnes Kóspál — Tue, 15 Mar 2022 09:18:00 +0000

SACCRED postdoc Eleonora Fiorellino gave a talk at ESO’s Hypatia Colloquium Program entitled “The mass of young stars likes to play hide & seek”. You can watch the talk on youtube here: https://youtu.be/63Zg6EV8awU

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Fernando Cruz-Sáenz de Miera’s talk at MAYA 2022: Meeting of ALMA Young Astronomers

Ágnes Kóspál — Wed, 02 Mar 2022 13:36:00 +0000

SACCRED postdoc Fernando Cruz-Sáenz de Miera gave a talk at MAYA 2022: Meeting of ALMA Young Astronomers entitled “Complex molecules in eruptive young stellar objects.” You can watch the talk on youtube at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BzX1hbx9jgA

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Press release: “Intruder” caught redhanded in rarely detected stellar flyby eventPress release:

Ágnes Kóspál — Fri, 04 Feb 2022 13:57:00 +0000

An international team of astronomers, including Péter Ábrahám, Lei Chen, and Ágnes Kóspál from the Konkoly Observatory of the ELKH Research Centre for Astronomy and Earth Sciences (Budapest, Hungary), published their latest results on the Z Canis Majoris (Z CMa) pre-main sequence binary system in the prestigious Nature Astronomy journal. The team claims that their images obtained with three powerful telescopes (the Subaru Telescope in Hawaii, the Jansky Very Large Array in the US, and the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) in Chile) imply that the circumstellar dust and gas disk was disturbed by an external body. Read more in ... Read more »

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Ágnes Kóspál’s talk at the IAU Early Career Astronomer (ECA) Online Discourse Series

Ágnes Kóspál — Thu, 26 Nov 2020 12:46:00 +0000

SACCRED PI Ágnes Kóspál gave a talk at the IAU Early Career Astronomer (ECA) Online Discourse Series entitled “A colorful career in star formation from optical to radio wavelengths.” You can watch the talk on youtube here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uD7eo7EW5Sg

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Kundan Kadam’s talk at GPU DAY 2020

Ágnes Kóspál — Wed, 21 Oct 2020 12:41:00 +0000

SACCRED postdoc Kundan Kadam gave a talk at he Wigner GPU DAY 2020 entitled “Hydrodynamic Modeling of Protoplanetary Disks with GFARGO2.” You can watch the talk on youtube at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aokbzAj6108

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ERC-funded postdoc position in star formation at Konkoly Observatory, Budapest

Ágnes Kóspál — Thu, 23 Jan 2020 12:09:16 +0000

The “Structured Accretion Disks” ERC-funded research group invites applicants to a postdoc position at Konkoly Observatory (Budapest, Hungary) on the topic of structure, composition, and chemistry of circumstellar disks around young eruptive stars. The ERC Starting Grant is awarded to Dr Agnes Kospal, and its aim is to provide realistic initial conditions for the planet formation process. The position is for two years, available immediately, with a possibility of a shorter extension until 2022 June. Applicants must have a PhD in astrophysics (or related discipline).

Applicants with interest and experience in observational/computational astrophysics, radiative transfer, and the physics of the circumstellar matter are encouraged to apply. The successful applicant will be expected to carry out independent research for this project and collaborate with other members of the ERC group, Konkoly Observatory, and its international partners. Konkoly Observatory has close connections to the Max Planck Institute for Astronomy (Heidelberg, Germany). The postdoc position comes with generous travel funds. The postdoc will have no teaching duties, although supervising students is possible.

Konkoly Observatory is Hungary’s largest astronomical institute, located in a newly renovated building in a beautiful natural reserve area, half hour from the city center. The observatory has been dynamically expanding in recent years, including two ERC-funded projects and several international staff members. The observatory maintains telescopes at a Hungarian mountain station and astronomers regularly observe with international instrumentation as well.

Applications should be sent via e-mail to kospal@konkoly.hu in PDF format and must include a cover letter describing the applicant’s background and motivation for applying for the job, a CV, a list of publications, and names, addresses, phone numbers, and e-mail addresses of two or three reference persons.

Application Deadline: Friday, February 14, 2020

Update: positions are all filled, thanks for all the applicants!

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