The principal investigator (PI), T. Csörgő is a Member of Academy Europe (London) (MAE). He is a research professor at MATE Institute of Technology and he serves as the head of the Laboratory for Femtoscopy at MATE Károly Róbert Campus, Gyöngyös, Hungary. He is also a scientific advisor at the HUN-REN Wigner Research Centre for Physics, Budapest.

Professor Csörgő’s former positions include part time visiting research scholarship at CERN (2018-2121) in Switzerland and France, visiting research scholarship at Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA (2009-2011), visiting research scholarship at Brookhaven National Laboratory, USA, as the Hungarian PI for the PHENIX experiment at RHIC. He acted as a part time guest professor at USP and UNESP, Sao Paulo, Brazil (2000, 2003, 2006). He was a guest researcher at the Columbia University in the city of New York, NY, USA, six times between 1995 – 2001.

Professor Csörgő’s recent national and international recognitions include the Recognition of the American Physical Society (APS), as an APS Outstanding Referee, by Editor in Chief and CEO of the APS (2021), a Certificate of Recognition for the Discovery of Odderon, by the DG of MATE KRC, Hungary (2021), the TOTEM Collaboration Achievement Award, by Spokesperson and Chair of TOTEM Collaboration at CERN (2019), the title EPJ Distinguished Referee, by Chair & Editor in Chief of the European Physical Journal, a Springer journal (2017) and the Knight's Cross, Order of Merit, by the President, Republic of Hungary (2011).

Professor T. Csörgő supervised successfully 6 award-winning and highly decorated PhD students, including M. Csanád, T. Novák, R. Vértesi, M. Nagy, F. Nemes and G. Kasza, three of them are already heads of departments at various leading Hungarian research institutions like Eötvös University, HUN-REN Wigner Research Centre for Physics and MATE Institute of Technology.  He is currently supervising the PhD research of I. Szanyi, who also is already highly decorated.

Professor T. Csörgő contributed significantly to the discovery of the perfect fluid nature of strongly interacting quark-gluon plasma in high energy heavy ion collisions, with one paper cited more than 5000 times, several papers cited more than 500 times.  Professor Csörgő organized the participation of MATE in the PHENIX experiment at RHIC, and in the CMS and TOTEM experiments at LHC. These globally leading experimental collaborations brought MATE Femtoscopy to the forefront of international research in high energy physics. In addition, professor Csörgő was the Hungarian principal investigator in the 2021 odderon exchange discovery papers. His most important signle-authored review paper, a contribution to a NATO Advanced Study Institute report, published in Acta Physica Hungarica A (APH A), received by now more than 170 citations (most likely, this is not due to the tiny impact factor of APH A).