Zsófia Bognár (Zsófia Sórodné Bognár) is an astronomer. She joined the research of variable stars by photometric methods at the ELKH CSFK Konkoly Observatory as a university student in 2004, then graduated from ELTE as an astronomer and physics teacher (MSc) in 2005. She also obtained her PhD degree at ELTE, in 2012 (summa cum laude). During her doctoral work, she was the first in Hungary to work in the field of asteroseismology of pulsating white dwarf stars, which is still her main research interest. In 2012, her husband, also an astronomer, won a two-year postdoctoral position at the Royal Observatory of Belgium. Following him to Belgium, she was able to get involved in the variable star research at the Observatory. During her stay in Belgium, she turned toward new research areas and methods: she studied gamma Doradus and gamma Doradus–delta Scuti hybrid candidate stars, as well as the information that could be obtained from these objects using high-resolution stellar spectra. In 2014, she moved back to Hungary, where she currently works as a senior research fellow at Konkoly Observatory. She regularly performs measurements with the largest telescope in Hungary, the 1-meter mirror diameter RCC telescope located in the Piszkéstető Observatory. Her targets are mostly pulsating white dwarf stars.
During her undergraduate, and so far postdoctoral period, she gained significant knowledge of pulsating variable stars, especially in the field of research on non-radially pulsating objects, from observations to modelling, and established international relations with many colleagues working in the field. At her current workplace, she works as a member of the Stellar Pulsation, Space Photometry, Exoplanets (SPEX) and the Near-Field Cosmology Research Group (MTA CSFK Momentum Program). Her main awards and grants: János Bolyai Research Scholarship (2020–2023), Young Researcher Award of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences (2020), NKFIH postdoctoral excellence programme grant (PD-123910 “Evolved compact stars in the era of photometric space missions”, PI, 2017–2020), Hungarian State Eötvös Scholarship (2013). She lives in Pilisvörösvár with her husband and their twin children born in 2009.