• Name: Péter Ábrahám
• Born: 1964
• Contact: abraham.peter@csfk.mta.hu

Positions:

• Research advisor, Konkoly Observatory (2016-)
• Director General of the Research Centre for Astronomy and Earth Sciences, Hungarian Academy of Sciences (2012-15)
• Director of Konkoly Observatory (2010-15)
• Deputy director of Konkoly Observatory (2005-10)
• Senior research fellow, Konkoly Observatory (2001-05)
• Postdoctoral researcher at the Max Planck Institute for Astronomy, Heidelberg; member of the ISOPHOT Data Centre (1995-2001)
• Visiting postdoctoral fellow at Arcetri Observatory, Florence (1995)
• Assistant research fellow, Konkoly Observatory (1989-1995)

Research interest:

• Optical and infrared variability of young stars
• Infrared space astronomy
• Infrared interferometric observations of young stars

Projects, successful proposals:

• PI, "Gaia Photometric Science Alerts for Variable Young Stellar Objects” European Space Agency, No. 4000121377/17/NL/CBi (2017-2019)
• PI, “The birth of stars and planets: new directions in understanding the physics of circumstellar disks”, NKFIH (National Research, Development and Innovation Office) / OTKA K-101393 research project (2012-2016)
• PI, Swiss-Hungarian SCIEX agreement with ETH Zürich (2012-13)
• PI, “Active operational participation in ESA’s Herschel Space Observatory mission”, European Space Agency, PECS-98073 (2009-2013)