2021 MERAC Prize to Judit Szulágyi

Judit Szulágyi receives the external pageawardcall_made “for her fundamental contribution to the study of circumplanetary disks in planet formation, and the origin of the moons of giant planets” in the category New Technologies (Computational). She will give a plenary lecture at the external pageEuropean Astronomical Society Annual Meeting 2021call_made from 28 June to 2 July 2021 (held virtually).

In 2020, Judit Szulágyi was appointed as Assistant Professor of Computational Astrophysics in the Institute for Particle Physics and Astrophysics (IPA) where she leads the Computational Astrophysics Group. Her research focuses on the formation and evolution of planetary systems and moons, mainly by developing and using computer simulations. Professor Szulágyi’s algorithms and models are particularly noted for taking full account of the propagation of radiation in these forming planetary systems, as well as demonstrating unprecedented spatial resolution in the computer simulations.

Judit Szulágyi was awarded a external pageEuropean Research Council (ERC)call_made Starting Grant in 2020 to further the understanding the formation of planets and their moons. She has won several science prizes during her career, for example, she was one of the young scientists included on the Forbes “external page30 Under 30 in Sciencecall_made” list in 2017.