Personal

• Name: Merse Előd Gáspár
• Place and date of birth: Marosvásárhely, 23rd February 1982.
• Nationality: Hungarian
• E-mail:

Education

• 2005-2011 Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest
  PhD school in particle physics and astronomy
• 2000-2005 Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest
  MSc in physics, specialization: astrophysics
• 1995-2000 Fazekas Mihály Secondary Grammar School, Budapest
  special class of mathematics
  

Awards

• 2004 Ortvay International College Competition in Physics, 1st prize
• 2004 12th National Team Competition of Experimental Physics, 1st prize
• 2003 11th National Team Competition of Experimental Physics, 1st prize
• 2002 Ortvay International College Competition in Physics, 1st prize + 2 extra awards
• 2002 10th National Team Competition of Experimental Physics, 3rd prize
• 2002 Science Workshop of the E�tv�s University in Physics, 2nd prize
• 2001 Ortvay International College Competition in Physics, 1st prize + 2 extra awards
• 2001 9th National Team Competition of Experimental Physics, 3rd prize
• 2000 Ortvay International College Competition in Physics, 1st prize
• 2000 XXXI. International Physics Olympiad, Leicester, England, 3rd prize
• 2000 E�tv�s Lor�nd Physics Competition, Budapest, 3rd prize
• 1999 Ortvay International College Competition in Physics, 2nd prize
• 1999 XXX. International Physics Olympiad, Padova, Italy, 2nd prize
• 1999 Romanian-Hungarian Qualification Competition in Physics, 1st. prize

Fellowships

• 2006-2011 Young Researcher Fellowship of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences
• 2003 Summer Undergraduate Research Foundation Fellowship, LIGO, Caltech
• 2002/2003 Student-Scholar of the Hungarian Republic Award (full scholarship)
• 2001/2002 Student-Scholar of the Hungarian Republic Award (full scholarship)
• 2000/2001 Student-Scholar of the Prime Minister Award (full scholarship)
• 1999/2000 Student-Scholar of the Prime Minister Award (full scholarship)

Positions

• 2011- Semmelweis University, School of Medicine, Budapest
  Department of Medical Chemistry, Molecular Biology and Pathobiochemistry
• 2005-2011 KFKI Research Institute for Particle and Nuclear Physics, Budapest
  senior research associate
• 2005-2006 Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest
  research associate

Summer schools

• 2008 2nd VESF School on on Gravitational Waves Data Analysis, Pisa, Italy
• 2009 informal workshop on gravitational wave data analysis, Annecy, France
• 2008 3rd VESF School on Gravitational Waves, Pisa, Italy
• 2006 1st VESF School on Gravitational Waves, Pisa, Italy
• 2006 Theoretical Physics Summer SchoolGy�ngy�starj�n, Hungary: Gravitational waves
• 2004 Theoretical Physics Summer SchoolGy�ngy�starj�n, Hungary: Cosmology

Memberships

• 2010- Hungarian Magic Association
• 2010- Hungarian Go Association
• 2008-2011 RMKI Virgo Group (gravitational wave detector)
• 2000-2006 Bolyai College member

Referred publications

• 2006 Bence Kocsis, Merse E. G�sp�r & Szabolcs M�rka:
  Detection Rate Estimates of Gravity Waves Emitted during Parabolic Encounters of Stellar Black Holes in Globular Clusters
  The Astrophysical Journal 648 411
• 2010 Merse E. G�sp�r & Istv�n R�cz:
  Probing the stability of gravastars by dropping dust shells onto them
  Classical and Quantum Gravity 27 185004
• 2011 Merse E. G�sp�r & Istv�n R�cz:
  On the dynamics of relativistic multi-layer spherical shell systems
  Classical and Quantum Gravity 28 085005

Collaboration papers

• 2010 LIGO S6 detector characterization studies
  Classical and Quantum Gravity 27 194010
• 2010 Noise from scattered light in Virgo's second science run data
  Classical and Quantum Gravity 27 194011
• 2010 Data quality in gravitational wave bursts and inspiral searches in the second Virgo Science Run
  Classical and Quantum Gravity 27 194012
• 2010 Very low latency search pipeline for low mass compact binary coalescences in the LIGO S6 and Virgo VSR2 data
  Classical and Quantum Gravity 27 194013
• 2010 Tools for noise characterization in Virgo
  Journal of Physics: Conference Series 243 012004
• 2011 Calibration and sensitivity of the Virgo detector during its second science run
  Classical and Quantum Gravity 28 025005
• 2011 Automatic Alignment system during the second science run of the Virgo interferometer
  Astroparticle Physics 34 327
• 2011 Performance of the Virgo interferometer longitudinal control system during the second science run
  Astroparticle Physics 34 521

Posters

• 2005 Einstein's Legacy, International Astrophysics Conference, Munchen
  Mass Function of Remnant Black Holes in Nearby Galaxies
• 2004 IX. Bolyai Conference, Budapest
  Syllable writing systems all over the world
• 2002 VII. Bolyai Conference, Budapest
  Hungarian Runes

Dissertations

• Ph.D. thesis
  title: Dynamics of spherical boundary surfaces in general relativity
  and there applications
  supervisor: István Rácz (KFKI Research Institute, Budapest)
• Master thesis
  title: Bulge-disk decomposition on SDSS galaxy images
  and the mass function of remnant black holes in nearby galaxies
  supervisors: Zsolt Frei (Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest), and
  Zoltán Haiman (Columbia University)
• National Scientific Students Associations Competition
  title: Calculus of infinite resistor networks
  supervisors: József Cserti (Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest), and
  Gyula Dávid (Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest)

Books

• Bűvész leszek! (handbook for beginner magicians)
  Corodini National Magic Association, Videograf Studio, Hungary, 2007
  

Teaching experience

• 2011 adjudicator on the 19th National Team Competition of Experimental Physics, Szigliget
• 2008 adjudicator on the 16th National Team Competition of Experimental Physics, Szigliget
• 2007 head of the jury on 15th National Team Competition of Experimental Physics, Szigliget
• 2006 adjudicator on the 14th National Team Competition of Experimental Physics, Szigliget
• 2006 Ortvay problem-solving seminar (spring semester), ELTE University

Language skills

• Hungarian (native)
• English (intermediate level)
• French (basic level)