Each year, the Hungarian edition of Forbes magazine, similar to its parent magazine, compiles a list of 30 young people who, according to their own description:
likeable, talented, young Hungarians who, by the age of 30, have changed the course of a market, a cultural or scientific segment in Hungary and around the world.
Every year, the list includes upcoming researchers with significant achievements, and this year's list features our very own young researcher, Csilla Kalup. Although Csilla is still only a PhD student, her publication record is already dozens of articles long, with hundreds of citations. Csilla is active in multiple disciplines: her doctoral research is focused on stellar physics, using the tools of asteroseismology and data from the Kepler space telescope to study the properties of globular clusters. But she also made important contributions to the study of small objects in the Solar System. In her latest work, she has modelled the composition of and the size of the dust grains in the ring around the dwarf planet Haumea, and made predictions for the observability of the ring's own radiation with the James Webb Space Telescope and the ALMA radio telescope network.
In addition to her research work, Csilla also plays an important role in mentoring future scientists. As a high school student, she was a member of the Hungarian Olympic team at the 2014 and 2015 International Olympiads in Astronomy and Astrophysics. Since then she has been actively involved in Olympic preparations as an instructor in the Athletica Galactica program and has been a team leader on several occasions. She also manages the Observatory's Konkoly Student and Research Assistant Program as one of its coordinators.
A full profile of Csilla and the other selected young talents will be published in the March 5 issue of Forbes magazine. Congratulations!