Barta, Veronika

Barta, Veronika

Barta, Veronika

Post: Senior Research Fellow
Phone: +36 99-508-381
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Publications:

#Physics of the near-Earth environment #Impacts_of_space_weather_events_on_the_ionosphere #Ionospheric_sounding #Ionosphere–neutral_atmosphere_coupling_mechanisms #Atmospheric_electricity

Career:

Veronika Barta graduated in astronomy at the Eötvös University, Budapest in 2009. During her PhD she studied the coupling mechanisms between the troposphere and the ionosphere using different statistical analyses and case studies. She defended her dissertation with summa cum laude in 2015. During her Fulbright Scholarship at the MIT in 2016 she started to study the ionospheric response to space weather events, especially solar flares. She is the operator of the DPS4D Digisonde station at Sopron since its installation in 2018 and the Hungarian contact person of GIRO (Global Ionosphere Radio Observatory). She received the Women in Science Excellence Award in Space Science category in 2014. She received the Marie Sklodowska-Curie Actions Seal of Excellence award in 2017 and 2018. She has been the PI of national and international bilateral projects (e.g. OTKA PD_141967, Bilateral mobility project between the Czech and Hungarian Academy of Sciences). Furthermore, she has been the leader of the Geospace Ionosphere Research Group and the EPSS’s team in the T-FORS Horizon Europe project.

Research Projects and Grants:

  • STARTING Research Grant (National Research, Development and Innovation Office – NKFIH), project title: Complex Investigation and Modelling of Ionospheric Absorption over Europe, Principal Investigator — 2025–
  • T-FORS (Travelling Ionospheric Disturbances Forecasting System), HORIZON 2022, contributor to Work Packages 2, 3 and 5, Head of the Hungarian Team — 2023–2024
  • OTKA Postdoctoral Excellence Programme, project title: Investigation of the Effects of Solar Flares on the Lower Ionosphere Using Ionosonde Data — 2020–2024
  • Hungarian Academy of Sciences Bilateral International Research Mobility Grant, partner institution: Institute of Atmospheric Physics AS CR (Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic), project title: Complex Investigation of Midlatitude Ionospheric Variations, Hungarian Principal Investigator — 2018–2023
  • COST Action CA15211 Electronet – Atmospheric Electricity Network: Coupling with the Earth System, Climate and Biological Systems, Management Committee and Working Group I, II and V member — 2016–2020
  • GLOCAEM (Global Coordination of Atmospheric Electricity Measurements), UK Natural Environmental Research Council (NERC), responsible for Hungarian potential gradient data — 2016–2019
  • TEA-IS: Thunderstorm Effects on the Atmosphere–Ionosphere System, European Science Foundation, Life, Earth and Environmental Sciences (LEE) — 2011–2016

Memberships / Professional Communities:

  • President, Hungarian Geophysical Association, Youth Committee — 2011–2016
  • PhD Representative, National Association of Doctoral Students, Kitaibel Pál Doctoral School of Environmental Sciences — 2012–2013
  • President, Hungarian Geophysical Association, Sopron Group — 2017–
  • President, Hungarian Academy of Sciences Veszprém Regional Committee, Geophysical Working Committee — 2017–
  • Co-chair, IAGA Interdivisional Commission on History — 2023–
  • Secretary, Geophysical Scientific Committee, Hungarian Academy of Sciences — 2023–
  • Member and Coordinator, Young Academy of Hungary, Committee for Equal Opportunities in Science — 2024–

Awards/Recognition:

  • Prima Award, Vas County, Hungary  — 2025
  • Researcher of the Year, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Veszprém Regional Committee — 2024
  • Bolyai Research Scholarship, Hungarian Academy of Sciences — 2021
  • János Renner Memorial Medal, Hungarian Geophysical Association — 2019
  • Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions Seal of Excellence award, Brussels, Belgium, project: “SELION, Investigation of the Solar Flare Effects on the Lower Ionosphere Using European Ionosonde Data” — 2018, 2019
  • Women in Science Excellence Award – Space Science category — 2014
  • Most Competitiveness and Best Presentation Awards, Alpbach Summer School 2014, Team Green: Aphrodite Mission, Alpbach, Austria — 2014
  • Young Specialists’ Forum, theoretical category, third prize — 2011
  • Nature World doctoral article competition, first prize — 2011

Education

  • PhD degree — University of West Hungary (NYME) — 2015
  • Certified Astronomer (MSc) — Eötvös Loránd University (ELTE) — 2009

Selected publications:

  • Barta, V., Potuznikova, K., Knížová, P. K., Chum, J., Mielich, J., Guerra, M., ... & Belehaki, A. (2025). Multi-instrument analysis of medium-scale travelling ionospheric disturbances generated by an intense tropospheric jet-front system with severe convection in Europe in August 2023. Journal of Space Weather and Space Climate, 15, 31.  https://doi.org/10.1051/swsc/2025025
  • Ventriglia, V., Guerra, M., Cesaroni, C., Spogli, L., Altadill, D., Segarra, A., Galkin, I., Barta, V. ... & Belehaki, A. (2025). An explainable Machine Learning model for Large-Scale Travelling Ionospheric Disturbances forecasting. Journal of Space Weather and Space Climate, 15, 25.   https://doi.org/10.1051/swsc/2025020
  • Barta, V., Bozóki, T., Süle, D. P., Kouba, D., Mielich, J., Raita, T., & Buzás, A. (2024). Ionospheric Absorption Variation Based on Ionosonde and Riometer Data and the NOAA D-RAP Model over Europe During Intense Solar Flares in September 2017.Remote Sens. 16(21), 3975  https://doi.org/10.3390/rs16213975
  • Buzás, A., Kouba, D., Mielich, J., Burešová, D., Mošna, Z., Koucká Knížová, P., and Barta, V. (2023). Investigating the effect of large solar flares on the ionosphere based on novel Digisonde data comparing three different methods. Frontiers in Astronomy and Space Sciences, 10.
  • Haralambous, H., Guerra, M., Chum, J., Verhulst, T. G., Barta, V., Altadill, D., ... & Zedník, J. (2023). Multi‐Instrument Observations of Various Ionospheric Disturbances Caused by the 6 February 2023 Turkey Earthquake. Journal of Geophysical Research: Space Physics, 128(12), e2023JA031691. (2)
  • Berényi, K. A., Heilig, B., Urbář, J., Kouba, D., Kis, Á., & Barta, V. (2023). Comprehensive analysis of the ionospheric response to the largest geomagnetic storms from solar cycle 24 over Europe. Frontiers in Astronomy and Space Sciences, 10, 1092850.
  • Barta, V., Natras, R., Srećković, V., Koronczay, D., Schmidt, M., and Šulic, D. (2022). Multi-instrumental investigation of the solar flares impact on the ionosphere on 05–06 December 2006. Frontiers in Environmental Science, 10, 904335. 
  • Verhulst, T. G., Altadill, D., Barta, V., Belehaki, A., Burešová, D., Cesaroni, C., ... & Tsagouri, I. (2022). Multi-instrument detection in Europe of ionospheric disturbances caused by the 15 January 2022 eruption of the Hunga volcano. Journal of Space Weather and Space Climate, 12, 35. (8)
  • Barta, V., Sátori, G., Kitti, A. B., Kis, Á., & Williams, E. (2019). Effects of solar flares on the ionosphere as shown by the dynamics of ionograms recorded in Europe and South Africa. In Annales Geophysicae (Vol. 37, No. 4, pp. 747-761) 
  • Nicoll, K. A., Harrison, R. G., Barta, V., Bor, J., Brugge, R., Chillingarian, A., ... & Yaniv, R. (2019). A global atmospheric electricity monitoring network for climate and geophysical research. Journal of atmospheric and solar-terrestrial physics, 184, 18-29. (47)
  • Berényi, K. A., Barta, V., & Kis, Á. (2018). Midlatitude ionospheric F2-layer response to eruptive solar events-caused geomagnetic disturbances over Hungary during the maximum of the solar cycle 24: A case study. Advances in Space Research, 61(5), 1230-1243. (8)
  • Barta, V., Haldoupis, C., Sátori, G., Buresova, D., Chum, J., Pozoga, M., Berényi, K. A., Bór,J., Popek, M., Kis, A. and Bencze, P. (2017). Searching for effects caused by thunderstorms in midlatitude sporadic E layers. Journal of Atmospheric and Solar-Terrestrial Physics, 161, 150-159. 
  • Sátori G., Williams, E., Price, C., Boldi, R., Koloskov, A., Yampolski, Y., Guha, A., and Barta, V. (2016), Effects of Energetic Solar Emissions on the Earth–Ionosphere Cavity of Schumann Resonances, Surveys in Geophysics, 37(4): 757–789., doi:10.1007/s10712-016-9369-z
  • Barta, V., Pietrella, M., Scotto, C., Bencze, P., & Sátori, G. (2015). Thunderstorm-related variations in the sporadic E layer around Rome. Acta Geodaetica et Geophysica, 50(3), 261-270.
  • Sátori, G., Rycroft, M., Bencze, P., Märcz, F., Bór, J., Barta, V., ... & Kovács, K. (2013). An overview of thunderstorm-related research on the atmospheric electric field, Schumann resonances, sprites, and the ionosphere at Sopron, Hungary. Surveys in Geophysics, 34, 255-292. (13)
  • Barta, V., Scotto, C., Pietrella, M., Sgrigna, V., Conti, L., & Sátori, G. (2013). A statistical analysis on the relationship between thunderstorms and the sporadic E Layer over Rome. Astronomische Nachrichten, 334(9), 968-971.