In 2022 Dr Zsolt Géza Kővári embarked on a collaborative astronomical data visualisation project with the team at the Centre for Data Science and Digitisation at MOME. In 2023 he launched a special theoretical knowledge course titled Cosmic Shapes – Astronomy and Art, the aim of which is to uncover the relationship between science and art as well as the interactions between the two fields and their dynamics.
Biography
He graduated from Budapest University of Technology and Economics as a civil engineer in 1990.
In 1994 he obtained a dual degree from the Faculty of Science, Eötvös Loránd University, as an astronomer and a teacher of mathematics and physics.
Between 1994 and 1999 he was a young researcher at the Astronomical Research Institute of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences.
In 1995 he was awarded the Soros Fellowship.
He defended his PhD dissertation in 1999, and then continued his work as a senior research fellow.
In 2001 and 2002 he studied science journalism at the Bálint György Journalism Academy of the National Association of Hungarian Journalists.
In 2002-2003 he was the scholarship recipient of Collegium Budapest - Institute For Advanced Study, and from 2005 to 2021 he was a lecturer at the Faculty of Science, Eötvös Loránd University.
Since 2016 he has been the leader of the Solar and Stellar Activity Research Team at the Astronomical Institute of the Research Centre for Astronomy and Earth Sciences.
In 2017 he defended his doctoral dissertation and became a Doctor of Science at the Hungarian Academy of Sciences.
Since 2017 he has been the science advisor of the Research Centre for Astronomy and Earth Sciences.
He is the author or co-author of over a hundred scientific publications, many of which have been published in prestigious scientific journals (e.g. Astronomy & Astrophysics, Astrophysical Journal, NATURE, Space Science Reviews). He has worked in several research centres worldwide, including extended periods at the Paris Observatory, the European Southern Observatory headquarters in Garching, and the Leibniz Institute for Astrophysics in Potsdam. In addition to research, he considers scientific outreach to be an important responsibility. From 2005 to 2008 he was science editor of the University of All Knowledge educational TV programme.
He also writes popular science articles, translates specialised books, and gives lectures and telescope demonstrations for elementary and high school students.