Lidia van Driel-Gesztelyi
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Lidia van Driel-Gesztelyi is a Hungarian solar scientist and professor of physics at the Mullard Space Science Laboratory of University College London. She also maintains affiliations with Solar and Stellar Activity Research Team at Konkoly Observatory of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences and the Space Research Laboratory (LESIA) of Paris Observatory. She has been an Editor-in-Chief of the journal Solar Physics from 2005 to 2025[1] and has served in leadership roles within the International Astronomical Union.[2]
van Driel-Gesztelyi completed a University Diploma in Astronomy and Physics at Eotvos University, Budapest, Hungary in 1974. and a PhD at Charles University, Prague, in 1990. In 2004 she was awarded a DSc from the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest.
van Driel-Gesztelyi started her research career at Debrecen Observatory, Hungary, in 1974, where she was remained until 1992. In 1988 she was appointed a guest researcher of the Astronomical Institute, University of Utrecht and in 1992 of the ISAS & Kiso Observatory, Tokyo University. In 1994 she also began a guest appointment at the Observatoire de Paris-Meudon (which she maintains to this day), and was appointed a senior scientific fellow of Konkoly Observatory, Hungary.[3] In 2000 she joined the Mullard Space Science Laboratory of University College London[4] and in 2001 KU Leuven, Belgium.
She is married to Wim van Driel, a Dutch astronomer working at the Paris Observatory.
