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SCIENTIFIC INTEREST

  • Freshwater ecology
  • Phytoplankton ecology
  • Functional ecology
  • Functional diversity - ecosystem functioning
  • Chytrid fungal parasites

RESEARCH ACTIVITIES

  • 2019 - ongoing: Functional role of chytrid algal parasites in aquatic food webs, LipTox & AquaScale, WasserCluster Lunz, Austria (role: postdoctoral associate; with Dr. Serena Rasconi, Dr. Martin Kainz, Dr. Robert Ptacnik)
  • 2018 - paused: Functional diversity – ecosystem functioning relationship in natural lake and river phytoplankton communities, Postdoctoral Fellow (Awarded), NRDI Office, MTA Centre for Ecological Research, Institute of Ecology and Botany, Vácrátót, Hungary (role: project leader)
  • 2016 - 2017: Long-term functional changes in the Danube River phytoplankton, Postdoctoral Fellow (Awarded), Hungarian Academy of Sciences, MTA Centre for Ecological Research, Danube Research Institute, Budapest, Hungary (role: project leader)
  • 2015 - 2016: Biodiversity – functioning relationship in phytoplankton, Postdoctoral Fellow (Awarded), Ernst Mach Fellowship (OeAD, Austria), WasserCluster, Lunz, Austria (with Dr. Robert Ptacnik)
  • 2015 - 2015: The role of rare taxa in phytoplankton, Campus Hungary Scholarship (Awarded), WasserCluster Lunz, training and project writing (with Dr. Robert Ptacnik)
  • 2013 - 2013: Functional composition of the River Loire, Campus Hungary Scholarship (Awarded), Bi-Eau, Angers, France (supplementing PhD research)
  • 2008 - 2008: Phytoplankton monitoring of Lake Erken, Norr Malma Limnological Field Station, Sweden (supplementing MSc research)
  • 2008 - 2008: Cyanobacteria monitoring, Laboratoire Départemental d'Analyse et de Recherche, Dordogne, France (supplementing MSc research)


QUALIFICATIONS

PUBLICATIONS

MEMBERSHIPS

AWARDS & RECOGNITION
  • 06.2018 Youth Award for international conference attendance, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Gfö Meeting, Vienna, 2018
  • 06.2016 Youth Award for international conference attendance, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, SIL Torino, Italy, 2016
  • 09.2015 Outstanding Youth Researcher of the Academic Committee of Veszprém, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Hungary
  • 01.2015 Campus Hungary Mobility Award, WCL, Lunz, Austria (3 months)
  • 07.2013 Wetzel Travel Award of SIL, 32ndSIL, Budapest
  • 05.2013 Campus Hungary Mobility Award, Bi-Eau, France (3 months)
  • 05.2010 TÁMOP Student Award, University of Pannonia, Veszprém, Hungary
  • 11.2009 MSc Diploma competition of the Hungarian Hydrological Society, II. Place, Budapest, Hungary
  • 04.2009 National Student competition in Biology, III. Place, Veszprém, Hungary
  • 03.2008 National Student competition in Environmental Sciences, II. Place, Nyíregyháza, Hungary

LANGUAGES
  • English                B2 (oral, written)
  • French                 B2 (oral)
  • Hungarian           Native

EDITORIAL BOARD MEMBERSHIP

REVIEW; SEE PUBLONS
  • Acta Botanica Brazilica, Acta Botanica Croatica, Community Ecology, Ecohydrology, Ecological Indicators, Ecology Letters, Ecosystem Health and Sustainability, Env. Engineering & Management, Freshwater Biology, Harmful Algae, HydrobiologiaJournal of Limnology, Journal of Plankton Research, Limnologica, Limnology, Limnology & Oceanography, Knowledge and Management of Aquatic Ecosystems, Marine & Freshwater ResearchPlosONE, Progress in Oceanography, River Research and Application, Science of the Total Environment, Turkish Journal of Botany
  • National Research, Development and Innovation Office, Hungary
  • Estonian Research Council, Estonia