István Szapudi

Address:

IfA, University of Hawaii
2680 Woodlawn Drive,
Honolulu, HI 98622
USa

Phone: 1-(808) 956-6196 (office)
1-(808) 956-9590 (fax)
Email : szapudi@ifa.hawaii.edu
WWW : http://www.ifa.hawaii.edu/~szapudi/istvan.html

Date of birth: February 8, 1966
Place of birth: Gyor, Hungary

Education:

1995 -Ph.D., Astrophysics Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland Advisor: A.S. Szalay
1991 -M.A., Astrophysics Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland
1990 -M.A., Theoretical Physics Eotvos University, Budapest, Hungary

Awards:

1993 -Essay Contest on Gravitation, Gravity Research Foundation, Honorable Mention
1987 -National Undergraduate Research Contest, Hungary, II. Prize
1983 -National Competition for High School Students in Mathematics, III. Prize

Research and Teaching:

2005 -Associate Astronomer, IfA, University of Hawaii
2001 -Assistant Astronomer, IfA, University of Hawaii
1999 -Senior Research Associate, CITA
1997 -Postdoctoral Research Assistant, University of Durham
1994 -Visiting Scholar, University of Chicago
1994 -Research Associate, Fermi National Laboratory
1993 -Graduate Research Assistant, Johns Hopkins University
1992 -Teaching Assistant, Mathematical Physics, Johns Hopkins University
1991 -Teaching Assistant, General Physics, Johns Hopkins University
1990 -Graduate Research Assistant, Johns Hopkins University
1986 -Research Assistant, Department ofAtomic Physics,
Eotvos University, Budapest, Hungary

International Schools:

1996 -The 3rd Erice School on Particle Astrophysics, Erice, Italy
1993 -Eotvos Graduate School on Cosmology, Budapest, Hungary
1992 -International School of Physics \Enrico Fermi", Course \Galaxy Formation", Varenna, Italy
1991 -Nordic Summer School on Cosmology, Graftvällen, Sweden
1987 -Winter School on General Relativity, Jena, Germany

Computing Skills:

Languages: C, C++, C*, Parallel C, Fortran, Pascal, Occam, Prolog, Mathematica, T E X, Mongo, SMongo

Operating Systems:

Unix, VMS, Windows, DOS

Language Skills: Native: Hungarian
English, German, French, Spanish, Italian, Japanese

Professional Society: American Astronomical Society

Participant: Sloan Digital Sky Survey