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  • Balázs, Brigitta Balázs, Brigitta Research assistant Research assistant +36 1 248 2310
    Balázs, Brigitta

    Balázs, Brigitta

    Phone : +36 1 248 2310
    E-mail:

    Publications:

    #seismology

    Career:

    Brigitta Balázs completed her higher education at Eötvös Loránd University, earning a degree in Geophysics in 2018. Her thesis was entitled: Surface wave tomography based on microseismic noise using data from the AlpArray Seismological Network. She is currently working as a Research Assistant at the Kövesligethy Radó Seismological Observatory.

    Education:

    • MSc in Geophysics – Eötvös Loránd University – 2018

    Recent / Highlighted Publication:

    • Szanyi, G., Gráczer, Z., Balázs, B., Kovács, I. J., and AlpArray Working Group, 2021, The transition zone between the Eastern Alps and the Pannonian Basin imaged by ambient noise tomography. Tectonophysics, 805, article no. 228770. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tecto.2021.228770
  • Barbély, Enikő Barbély, Enikő Research assistant Research assistant
    Barbély, Enikő

    Barbély, Enikő

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    Publications:

    #geodesy #geodynamics #gravimetry

    Career:

    Enikő Barbély earned her BSc degree in Civil Engineering with a specialization in Geodesy from the Budapest University of Technology and Economics in 2022. She continued her studies in the autumn of 2022 in the MSc programme in Surveying Engineering. She prepared her thesis at the HUN-REN Institute of Earth Physics and Space Science, where she worked on the comparative analysis and tidal analysis of collocated time series recorded by gravimeters. She obtained her MSc degree in January 2024. She currently works as a research assistant at the Institute's Geodesy Research Unit, and since September 2024 she has been a doctoral student at the Pál Vásárhelyi Doctoral School of Civil Engineering and Earth Sciences. Her research focuses on the detection and interpretation of geodynamic processes with different time constants, using tiltmeter time series measured at stations of the Mura–Mürz monitoring network.

    Research Projects and Grants:

    • NKFIH, Doctoral Excellence Scholarship Programme, 2025-3.1.1-ED – 2025-00018

    Awards / Recognition:

    • Mélyépítő BME Foundation – Thesis Award – 2024

    Education:

    • Vásárhelyi Pál Doctoral School of Civil Engineering and Earth Sciences – from 2024
    • MSc in Land Surveying and Geoinformatics – Budapest University of Technology and Economics – 2024
    • BSc in Civil Engineering – Budapest University of Technology and Economics – 2022

    Recent / Featured Publications:

    • Barbély, E., Benedek, J., Horn, N., Meurers, B., Leonhardt R., Papp G. Assessment of the network operation of high-resolution Lippmann tiltmeters installed for the monitoring of the Mur-Mürz fault line (Austria). J Geod 100, 22 (2026). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00190-026-02037-w
    • Barbély, E., Benedek, J., Leonhardt, R., Horn, N., Szabó, C., Molnár, T., Papp, G. (2025). A Geodynamic Network for the Monitoring of Seismo–Tectonic Activity Along the Mur–Mürz Fault Line (Austria). Geophysical Observatory Reports of the Institute of Earth Physics and Space Science, 2023–2024, 82–105. http://doi.org/10.55855/gor2024.6
  • Berényi, Kitti Berényi, Kitti +36 99-508-373
  • Bozsó, István Bozsó, István Research fellow Research fellow +36 99-508-361
    Bozsó, István

    Bozsó, István

    Phone : +36 99-508-361
    E-mail:

    Publications:

    #remote-sensing #earth-observation #sentinel #insar #sar #ai

    Career:

    István Bozsó was born on 2 September 1993 in Budapest. He completed his primary and secondary education at Szent Angéla Franciscan Primary School and Grammar School, graduating in 2012. In the same year, he was admitted to the Physics BSc program at the Faculty of Science of Eötvös Loránd University (ELTE). After completing the geophysics specialization, he obtained his BSc degree in 2015. He continued his studies in the Geophysics MSc program, specializing in space research and remote sensing, and received his degree in 2017. During his MSc studies, from 2015 onward, he participated as a scholarship student in satellite radar interferometry research at the HUN-REN Institute of Earth Physics and Space Science (formerly MTA CSFK Geodetic and Geophysical Institute), where he also completed his MSc thesis in this field. He began his PhD studies in 2017 as a junior research fellow at the Institute of Earth Physics and Space Science, within the Geology–Geophysics Program of the Doctoral School of Earth Sciences at Eötvös Loránd University. During his doctoral studies, he contributed to several scientific projects and research programs, including an ESA PECS project focused on the development of artificial satellite radar reflectors, the TopoTransylvania OTKA project, and a National Excellence Program project aimed at developing a seismotectonic hazard map of Hungary. He also played a role in organizing a HUN-REN-funded initiative through which young researchers at the institute introduced machine learning methods into research practice. From November 2019 to mid-March 2020, he was a visiting student at Utrecht University, where he gained experience in numerical geodynamic modeling.

    Research Projects and Grants:

    • ESA PECS project: Integrated Sentinel-PSI and GNSS Technical Facilities and Procedures for the Determination of 3D Structure Deformations Caused by Environmental Processes (000114846/15/NL/Nde) — co-researcher — 2015–2018
    • NKFIH NKP project: Development and Analysis of the Seismotectonic Hazard Map of Hungary (2018-1.2.1-NKP-2018-00007) — co-researcher — 2018–2023
    • NKFIH OTKA project: TopoTransylvania (128629; 141956) — co-researcher — 2018–2024

    Memberships / Professional Communities:

    • Hungarian Geophysical Association — since 2016
    • Hungarian Academy of Sciences — public body member — since 2026

    Awards/Recognition:

    • William Behr Agócs Award — 2024
    • First Prize, 32nd National Scientific Students’ Associations Conference (Air Environment Section) — 2015

    Education:

    • PhD studies, ELTE Faculty of Science, Doctoral School of Earth Sciences – Geophysics Program — 2017–2024
    • MSc in Geophysics, ELTE Faculty of Science, specialization in Space Science and Remote Sensing — 2015–2017
    • BSc in Physics, ELTE Faculty of Science, specialization in Geophysics — 2012–2015
  • Buzás, Attila Buzás, Attila Research assistant Research assistant +36 70 329-00-87
    Buzás, Attila

    Buzás, Attila

    Phone : +36 70 329-00-87
    E-mail:
    Office 2.06

    Publications:

    #space_weather #upper_atmosphere_physics #ionosonde #ionospheric_absorption #atmospheric_electricity #atmospheric_electric_potential_gradient #global_atmospheric_electric_circuit #history_of_science

    Career:

    Attila Buzás completed his BSc studies at the Faculty of Earth Sciences at ELTE, graduating in 2017 with distinction in the geophysics specialisation. Between 2017 and 2019 he continued his studies at ELTE's MSc programme in Geophysics, specialising in space research and remote sensing. He received his master's degree in 2019 with honours. In the same year, he was awarded the Agocs Prize for his thesis. Between 2019 and 2023, he completed his doctoral (PhD) studies in the Earth Sciences Doctoral School at ELTE, in the Geology-Geophysics Programme. He has been participating in atmospheric physics and space weather research at the HUN-REN Institute of Earth Physics and Space Science (at the time still MTA CSFK GGI) since 2016. Between 2021 and 2023 he served as secretary of the Sopron Group of the Association of Hungarian Geophysicists and of the Geophysics Working Committee of the Veszprém Academic Committee, and since 2021 he has been a member of the Editorial Board of Geophysical Observatory Reports. He currently works as a junior research fellow in the HUN-REN–ELTE Space Research Group. He has presented at numerous domestic and international conferences. In 2020, he completed the one-month European Research School on Atmospheres in France, and spent several weeks in Israel, England, Germany, and Belgium on professional training courses and visits. He is a regular reviewer for international scientific journals. His main areas of professional interest include atmospheric electric potential gradient measurements, the global atmospheric electric circuit, ionospheric physics, research into space weather events based on ionosonde data, and the history of science. He is a passionate book collector and reader, and one of his favourite pastimes is language learning.

    Research Projects and Grants:

    • Complex investigation and modelling of ionospheric absorption over Europe (Dr. Veronika Barta NKFIH Starting Grant) – researcher – 2024–
    • HUN-REN–ELTE Space Research Group – researcher – 2023–
    • ÚNKP-22-23 "Community lightning detection in Hungary and Europe" – grantee – 2022–2023
    • Project submitted to a call by the Petőfi Literary Museum, entitled "Publications of the Széchenyi István Geophysical Observatory – tradition and renewal" – editorial board member – 2021
    • József Bór: Development of new methods based on extremely low-frequency radiation of lightning for understanding electrical processes in near-Earth space (NKFIH OTKA grant) – doctoral student – 2021–2023
    • ÚNKP-18-2 "Quasi-static atmospheric electricity in the service of environmental monitoring" – grantee – 2018–2019
    • CA15211 COST ELECTRONET – participant – 2017–2021
    • József Bór: Study of our global, regional and local electromagnetic environment using ELF transients (NKFIH OTKA grant) – research assistant – 2016–2021

    Memberships / Professional Communities:

    • Geophysical Observatory Reports – editorial board member – 2021–
    • Association of Hungarian Geophysicists, Sopron Group – secretary – 2021–2023
    • Veszprém Academic Committee, Geophysics Working Group – secretary – 2021–2023
    • Association of Hungarian Geophysicists – member – 2019–
    • Veszprém Academic Committee – member – 2019–
    • European Geosciences Union – member – 2017–

    Awards / Recognition:

    • Agocs Prize – awarded – 2019

    Education:

    • Doctoral degree – Eötvös Loránd University – in progress
    • MSc in Geophysics (space research and remote sensing specialisation) – Eötvös Loránd University – 2019
    • BSc in Earth Sciences (geophysics specialisation) – Eötvös Loránd University – 2017

    Recent / Featured Publications:

    • Berényi, K. A., Barta, V., Szárnya, C., Buzás, A., & Heilig, B. (2025). Subauroral and Auroral Conditions in the Mid-and Low-Midlatitude Ionosphere over Europe During the May 2024 Mother's Day Superstorm. Remote Sensing, 17(14), 2492, https://doi.org/10.3390/rs17142492
    • Buzás, A., Kouba, D., Mielich, J., Burešová, D., Mošna, Z., Koucká Knížová, P., & 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, https://doi.org/10.3389/fspas.2023.1201625
    • Bor, J., Bozoki, T., Sátori, G., Williams, E., Behnke, S. A., Rycroft, M. J., Buzás, A., ... & Atkinson, M. (2023). Responses of the AC/DC global electric circuit to volcanic electrical activity in the Hunga Tonga‐Hunga Ha'apai eruption on 15 January 2022. Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres, 128(8), https://doi.org/10.1029/2022JD038238
    • Buzás, A., Barta, V., Horváth, T., & Bór, J. (2021, July). Revisiting the long-term decreasing trend of atmospheric electric potential gradient measured at Nagycenk, Hungary, Central Europe. In Annales Geophysicae (Vol. 39, No. 4, pp. 627-640). Copernicus GmbH, https://doi.org/10.5194/angeo-39-627-2021
    • Bór, J., Sátori, G., Barta, V., Szabóné-André, K., Szendrői, J., Wesztergom, V., Bozóki, T., Buzás, A., & Koronczay, D. (2020). Measurements of atmospheric electricity in the Széchenyi István geophysical observatory, Hungary. History of Geo-and Space Sciences, 11(1), 53-70, https://doi.org/10.5194/hgss-11-53-2020
  • Csatlós, Marietta Csatlós, Marietta PhD student PhD student +36 1-248-2316
    Csatlós, Marietta

    Csatlós, Marietta

    Phone : +36 1-248-2316
    E-mail:
    My research focuses on the reassessment of earthquake hazard in Hungary. As part of this work, I delineate seismic source zones in Hungary and the surrounding regions and analyze the characteristics of earthquake wave attenuation within the Pannonian Basin. By applying modern, probabilistic seismic hazard analysis methods, my goal is to develop more reliable hazard maps that comply with current standards and reflect the geological and seismotectonic features specific to the region.
  • Czanik, Csenge Czanik, Csenge +36 1-248-2300
  • Czecze, Barbara Czecze, Barbara
    Czecze, Barbara

    Czecze, Barbara

    E-mail:
    Beosztás: tudományos munkatárs

    Végzettség:

    PhD(2025), ELTE Földtudományi Doktori Iskola, Földtan-Geofizika program  okleveles Geofizikus (2018), kutató geofizikus szakirány (MSc.) okleveles földtudományi kutató (2016) (BSc.)

    Kutatási terület:  - nagypontosságú földrengés helymeghatározás, a Pannon-medence szeizmicitása - antropogén és természetes eredetű szeizmikus események diszkriminációja  - klaszteranalízis

    MTMT azonosító: 10062871  

  • Cziráki, Kamilla Cziráki, Kamilla Research assistant Research assistant
    Cziráki, Kamilla

    Cziráki, Kamilla

    E-mail:

    Publications:

    #infrasound #seismology

    Career:

    She obtained her BSc degree in Earth Sciences at the Faculty of Natural Sciences of Eötvös Loránd University in 2023. She is currently an MSc student in geophysics at the same faculty. Her thesis, supervised by Marcell Pásztor, is entitled "Improving the location of seismo-acoustic events by azimuthal correction of infrasound detections." She has been working on this topic since spring 2024 at the Kövesligethy Radó Seismological Observatory.

    Research Projects and Grants:

    • Improving the location of seismo-acoustiv events by azimuthal correction of infrasound detections – 2024-2025

    Memberships / Professional Communities:

    • Association of Hungarian Geophysicists – member – 2022-

    Awards / Recognition:

    • Outstanding Student of the Faculty of Natural Sciences, ELTE – 2024

    Education:

    • MSc in Geophysics – ELTE – in progress
    • BSc in Earth Sciences – ELTE – 2024
  • Gyarmati, Anett Gyarmati, Anett Research assistant Research assistant +36 1 248 23 18
    Gyarmati, Anett

    Gyarmati, Anett

    Phone : +36 1 248 23 18
    E-mail:

    Publications:

    #seismology #earthquake_source_parameters #seismic_networks

    Career:

    Anett Gyarmati completed her BSc studies in Earth Sciences with a specialization in Geophysics at Eötvös Loránd University in 2019. She subsequently obtained her MSc degree in Geophysics in 2021, graduating with distinction. The title of her MSc thesis was Earthquake Source Parameters and Scaling Relationships in the Pannonian Basin. Since January 2021, she has been working as a Research Assistant at the Kövesligethy Radó Seismological Observatory. Her responsibilities include the discrimination and analysis of earthquakes and quarry blasts, as well as seismic event determination.

    Education:

    • MSc in Geophysics — Eötvös Loránd University, Faculty of Science, Budapest, Hungary — 2019-2021

    Recent / Selected Publications:

    • Süle, B.; Czecze, B.; Czifra, T.; Csatlós, M.; Gyarmati, A.; Győri, E.; Schlömer, A.; Pásztor, M.; Wéber, Z.; Kalmár, D.; Working Group and AdriaArray Seismology Group. A Seismological Network in Hungary: Insights from the AdriaArray Operational Period. Annals of Geophysics, 68 (5), DM559 (2025). https://doi.org/10.4401/ag-9321
    • Wéber, Z. et al. Analysis of the Szarvas, Hungary, Earthquake Swarm of 19 August 2023: A Case Study in a Low-Seismicity Sedimentary Basin. Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America, 115 (4), 1497–1513 (2025). https://doi.org/10.1785/0120250011
    • Schlömer, A., Hetényi, G., Plomerová, J. et al. The Pannonian-Carpathian-Alpine seismic experiment (PACASE): network description and implementation. Acta Geodaetica et Geophysica, 59, 249–270 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1007/s40328-024-00439-w
  • Jánosi, Dániel Jánosi, Dániel Junior research fellow Junior research fellow
    Jánosi, Dániel

    Jánosi, Dániel

    E-mail:

    Publications:

    #atmospheric_physics #climate_science #chaos_theory

    Career:

    Dániel Jánosi completed his BSc and MSc degrees in Physics at Eötvös Loránd University (ELTE) and is currently pursuing his PhD studies at the same institution. His research field is chaos theory and its applications. At the HUN-REN Research Institute, he works on geophysical problems, primarily in climate science and geophysical fluid dynamics.

    Memberships / Professional Communities:

    • Hungarian Association of Physics Students — Program Coordinator — 2024–2026

    Awards/Recognition:

    • KDP Scholarship — 2023
    • Pro Scientia Gold Medal — 2023
    • ÚNKP Scholarship — 2021, 2022, 2023

    Education:

    • MSc in Physics — Eötvös Loránd University — 2022

    Recent publications:

    • Jánosi, D. and Tél T. (2024). Overview of the advances in understanding chaos in low-dimensional dynamical systems subjected to parameter drift: Parallel dynamical evolutions and ”climate change” in simple systems. Physics Reports 1092, 1-64, doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.physrep.2024.09.003
    • Herein M., Jánosi D. and Tél T. (2023). An ensemble based approach for the effect of climate change on the dynamics of extremes. Frontiers in Earth Science 11, 1267473, doi: https://doi.org/10.3389/feart.2023.1267473
    • Jánosi, D., Károlyi G. and Tél T. (2021). Climate change in mechanical systems: the snapshot view of parallel dynamical evolutions. Nonlinear Dynamics 106, 2781-2805, doi: https://doi.org/10.1007/s11071-021-06929-8
    • Jánosi D. and Tél T. (2019) Chaos in Hamiltonian systems subjected to parameter drift. Chaos 29, 121105, doi: https://doi.org/10.1063/1.5139717
  • Kovács, Dániel Kovács, Dániel junior research fellow junior research fellow +3630 213 92 92
    Kovács, Dániel

    Kovács, Dániel

    Phone : +3630 213 92 92
    E-mail:

    Publications:

    #fluids #soil_gas_emission #carbon_dioxide #radon #FTIR #integrated_geodynamic_station #magma_mixing

    Career:

    Dániel Kovács obtained his BSc degree in geology in 2019 from Babeș-Bolyai University in Cluj-Napoca. The topic of his BSc thesis was the petrographic and geochemical investigation of shoshonitic rocks of the Southern Harghita region in the Carpathian Bend area. He obtained his MSc degree in geology in 2025 at Eötvös Loránd University, where his dissertation demonstrated magma mixing in the previously studied shoshonitic rocks. He began his doctoral studies in 2025 at the Environmental Sciences Doctoral School of Eötvös Loránd University. His research topic focuses on studying the effects of recent geological events in the South-Eastern Carpathians using geogenic fluids, as well as on the evaluation of data from the Integrated Geodynamic Station established in the area.

    Memberships / Professional Communities:

    • Lithosphere Fluid Research Laboratory – member – 2022-
    • Bolyai College – member – 2022-2025
    • Hungarian Geological Society – member – 2023-
    • Topo-Transylvania Community – member – 2024-
    • American Association of Petroleum Geologists – member – 2024-
    • European Association of Geochemistry – member – 2025-
    • European Geosciences Union – member – 2026-
    • International Association of Volcanology and Chemistry of the Earth's Interior – member – 2026-

    Awards / Recognition:

    • Transylvanian Scientific Student Conference – 1st place – 2022
    • National Scientific Student Conference – Special Prize – 2023
    • National Higher Education Scholarship – awarded – 2023

    Education:

    • PhD – Eötvös Loránd University, Environmental Sciences Doctoral School – in progress
    • MSc in Geology, specialisation in Mineralogy–Petrology–Geochemistry – Eötvös Loránd University, Faculty of Natural Sciences – 2025
  • Kővágó, Ákos Kővágó, Ákos Research assistant Research assistant +36 1 248 2310
    Kővágó, Ákos

    Kővágó, Ákos

    Phone : +36 1 248 2310
    E-mail:

    Publications:

    #radon #geochemistry #seismology

    Career:

    Ákos Kővágó has been a PhD student at the Earth Sciences Doctoral School of the Faculty of Natural Sciences at Eötvös Loránd University since 2019. His doctoral research examines the water content of Neogene calc-alkaline volcanic rocks of the Avas-Gutin mountain range in the Eastern Carpathians. Alongside his studies, he participates in the professional implementation of the Topo-Transylvania and MTA-FI FluidsByDepth Lendület research groups. He also contributes to the work of the Kövesligethy Radó Seismological Observatory, where his responsibilities include the installation and maintenance of seismological stations.

    Research Projects and Grants:

    • HUN-REN Mobility Grant – participation in the AGU24 conference – 2024

    Memberships / Professional Communities:

    • Hungarian Geological Society
    • ELTE Faculty of Natural Sciences, Lithosphere Fluid Research Laboratory

    Awards / Recognition:

    • MBFSZ Special Prize, Conference of Young Earth Scientists, Budapest – 2019
    • 1st place, XXXIV. National Scientific Student Conference, Eger – 2019

    Education:

    • PhD – Eötvös Loránd University, Earth Sciences Doctoral School – in progress
    • MSc in Geology – Eötvös Loránd University – 2019

    Recent / Featured Publications:

      • Kővágó, Á., Kovacs, M., Gergely, S., Szabo, C., & Kovacs, I. J. (2025). Studying the 'water' content of the Firiza calc-alkaline basalts: Inferences from the Carpathian–Pannonian Region. Geologica Carpathica, 76(1), 37–53. https://doi.org/10.31577/GeolCarp.2025.03
      • Gelencsér, O., Cseresznyés, D., Szamosfalvi, Á., Breitner, D., Kővágó, Á., Szabó, C., ... & Falus, G. (2026). Geological potential of hydrogen storage in the Pannonian Basin complex. Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 555(1), SP555-2023. https://doi.org/10.1144/SP555-2023-198
      • Patkó, L., Kővágó, Á., Huraiová, M., Kövér, S., Gergely, S., Konečný, P., & Hurai, V. (2025). Hydrous Asthenosphere Underneath the Northern Pannonian Basin. Terra Nova, 37(3), 164–174. https://doi.org/10.1111/ter.12763
  • Kuslits, Lukács Benedek Kuslits, Lukács Benedek Research assistant Research assistant
    Kuslits, Lukács Benedek

    Kuslits, Lukács Benedek

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    Publications:

    #geomagnetism #machine_learning #geodynamo

    Career:

    Lukács Kuslits graduated as a geophysicist from Eötvös Loránd University in 2015. His BSc thesis, supervised by Dr. Attila Galsa, addressed the relationship between viscous rheology and thermal convection in the Earth's mantle. His MSc thesis, supervised by Dr. Szilvia Szkolnikovics-Simon and Dr. Attila Kovács, was based on field surface geophysical measurements and involved structural geological and hydrogeological investigation of the environment of the spring gallery at Kádárta. His interest subsequently turned again towards studying the deep internal structure and processes of the Earth. His current main research area within geomagnetism is the modelling of the planetary magnetic field and the investigation of the geomagnetic dynamo (geodynamo) that sustains it in the outer core. In his PhD dissertation, supervised by institutional researchers Dr. Viktor Wesztergom and Dr. István Lemperger, he investigated the possibility of reconstructing the geodynamo process using machine deep learning, which he defended with a "summa cum laude" distinction in 2023 at Eötvös Loránd University.

    Research Projects and Grants:

    • IUGG, IUGG1-222, Montreal, Canada – IUGG travel grant – 2019
    • HUN-REN SA-46/2021 – Machine learning methods in Earth physics – co-investigator – 2021–2022

    Memberships / Professional Communities:

    • Association of Hungarian Geophysicists – member – 2015–

    Awards / Recognition:

    • OTDK 1st place – 2013
    • Meskó Attila Award – 2014
    • Meskó Attila Award – 2021

    Education:

    • PhD – Environmental Sciences Doctoral School, Environmental Physics Programme – Eötvös Loránd University – 2015–2023
    • MSc in Geophysics, Research Geophysicist specialisation – Eötvös Loránd University – 2012–2015
    • BSc in Earth Sciences, Geophysics specialisation – Eötvös Loránd University – 2009–2012

    Recent / Featured Publications:

    • Kuslits, L., Horváth, A., Wesztergom, V., Beggan, C., Rubóczki, T., Prácser, E., ... & Lemperger, I. (2024). An alternate representation of the geomagnetic core field obtained using machine learning. Earth, Planets and Space, 76(1), 77. https://doi.org/10.1186/s40623-024-02024-5
    • Czirok, L., Kuslits, L., Bozsó, I., Radulian, M., & Gribovszki, K. (2022). Cluster analysis for the study of stress patterns in the Vrancea-Zone (SE-Carpathians). Pure and Applied Geophysics, 179(10), 3693–3712. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00024-022-03159-w
    • Kuslits, L., Lemperger, I., Horváth, A., Koronczay, D., & Wesztergom, V. (2020). Recent progress in identification of the geomagnetic signature of 3D outer core flows. Acta Geodaetica et Geophysica, 55(3), 347–370. https://doi.org/10.1007/s40328-020-00307-3
    • Szalai, S., Kovács, A., Kuslits, L., Facskó, G., Gribovszki, K., Kalmar, J., & Szarka, L. (2018). Characterisation of Fractures and Fracture Zones in a Carbonate Aquifer Using Electrical Resistivity Tomography and Pricking Probe Methods. Journal of Geoscience and Environment Protection, 2327–4344. https://doi.org/10.4236/gep.2018.64001
    • Kuslits, L. B., Farkas, M. P., & Galsa, A. (2014). Effect of temperature-dependent viscosity on mantle convection. Acta Geodaetica et Geophysica, 49(3), 249–263. https://doi.org/10.1007/s40328-014-0055-7
  • Németh, Kolos Németh, Kolos Research assistant Research assistant +3630 357 11 68
    Németh, Kolos

    Németh, Kolos

    Phone : +3630 357 11 68
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    Publications:

    Career:

    He completed a BSc in Earth Sciences with a specialization in geophysics at Eötvös Loránd University (ELTE), followed by an MSc in geophysics with a focus on space research and remote sensing. He is currently a second-year PhD student at the ELTE Doctoral School of Earth Sciences, under the supervision of Tamás Bozóki. His doctoral research focuses on atmospheric electricity and satellite-based lightning observation. He is a member of the institute's atmospheric physics research group and works at the institute on a part-time basis.

    Awards / Recognition:

    • 2nd place, National Scientific Students' Association Conference (OTDK) – 2023

    Education:

    • MSc in Geophysics, Eötvös Loránd University – 2024

    Recent / Selected Publications:

    • Németh, K., & Bozóki, T. (2025, November). Determining the Source Location of ELF-Transients Generated by Lightning During the Hunga Tonga-Hunga Ha'apai Volcanic Eruption. In 2025 IEEE 25th International Symposium on Computational Intelligence and Informatics (CINTI) (pp. 000439–000442). IEEE. https://doi.org/10.1109/CINTI67731.2025.11311773
    • Németh, K., & Bozóki, T. (2025). Assessing Time Synchronization in Global ELF Station Networks Based on ELF Transients. Geophysical Observatory Reports of the Institute of Earth Physics and Space Science, 2023, 106–111. https://doi.org/10.55855/gor2024.7
     
  • Pásztor, Marcell Pásztor, Marcell Research assistant Research assistant +36 1-248-2313
    Pásztor, Marcell

    Pásztor, Marcell

    Phone : +36 1-248-2313
    E-mail:

    Publications:

    #infrasound #machine_learning #seismology #monitoring

    Career:

    Marcell Pásztor obtained his BSc in Physics and subsequently his MSc in Geophysics at the Faculty of Science of Eötvös Loránd University. Since 2019, he has been engaged in infrasound research, initially under the supervision of Csenge Czanik and later István Bondár. In September 2021, he began his PhD studies at the Doctoral School of Earth Sciences at ELTE, with a focus on the identification of infrasound signals using machine learning algorithms. His work involves data from the Central and Eastern European Infrasound Network (CEEIN), where he categorises infrasound detections of various origins. In his study of infrasound waves propagating through the atmosphere, he pays particular attention to distinguishing signals from different sources. The work is divided into two main phases: first, detections are compared with ground truth information (e.g. seismic data for mine blasts, lightning distribution maps for thunderstorms), and then the resulting database is used to develop machine learning methods for signal detection and identification. He also operates a monitoring system built on these methods.

    Research Projects and Grants:

    • Discrimination of natural and anthropogenic events through joint analysis of seismic and infrasound data – infrasound data processing – 2019-2023

    Memberships / Professional Communities:

    • Association of Hungarian Geophysicists – 2025-

    Education:

    • PhD – ELTE – in progress
    • MSc in Geophysics – ELTE – 2021

    Recent / Selected publications:

    • Pásztor, M., Sindelarova, T., Ghica, D., Mitterbauer, U., Liashchuk, O., Lacanna, G., Bondár, I. (2025). Automatic signal discrimination using machine learning on the data from the Central and Eastern European infrasound network. Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres, 130, e2025JD044047. https://doi.org/10.1029/2025JD044047
    • Pásztor, M., Czanik, C., & Bondár, I. (2023). A Single Array Approach for Infrasound Signal Discrimination from Quarry Blasts via Machine Learning. Remote Sensing, 15(6), 1657. https://doi.org/10.3390/rs15061657
    • Süle, B., Czecze, B., Czifra, T., Csatlós, M., Gyarmati, A., Győri, E., Schlömer, A., Pásztor, M., Wéber, Z., Kalmár, D., & AlpArray-PACASE Working Group and AdriaArray Seismology Group. (2025). A seismological network in Hungary: Insights from the AdriaArray operational period. Annals of Geophysics, 68(5), DM559. https://doi.org/10.4401/ag-9321
    • Koucká Knížová, P., Potužníková, K., Podolská, K., Šindelářová, T., Bozóki, T., Setvák, M., Pásztor, M., Szárnya, C., Mošna, Z., Kouba, D., Chum, J., Zacharov, P., Buzás, A., Hanzlíková, H., Kozubek, M., Burešová, D., Bozsó, I., Berényi, K. A., & Barta, V. (2024). Impacts of Storm “Zyprian” on Middle and Upper Atmosphere Observed from Central European Stations. Remote Sensing, 16(22), 4338. https://doi.org/10.3390/rs16224338
    • Bondár, I., Šindelářová, T., Ghica, D., Mitterbauer, U., Liashchuk, A., Baše, J., Chum, J., Czanik, C., Ionescu, C., Neagoe, C., Pásztor, M., & Le Pichon, A. (2022). Central and Eastern European Infrasound Network: Contribution to infrasound monitoring. Geophysical Journal International, 230(1), 565–579. https://doi.org/10.1093/gji/ggac066
  • Rubóczki, Tibor Rubóczki, Tibor Research fellow Research fellow +36-99-508-376
    Rubóczki, Tibor

    Rubóczki, Tibor

    Phone : +36-99-508-376
    E-mail:

    Publications:

    #magnetotellurics #lithosphere_deep_structure_research #3D_electromagnetic_numerical_modelling

    Career:

    Tibor Rubóczki completed his university studies at Eötvös Loránd University, obtaining a BSc in Physics and an MSc in Geophysics. Since 2020, he has been employed at the HUN-REN Institute of Earth Physics and Space Science, where alongside his research activities he completed his doctoral studies at the Earth Sciences Doctoral School of ELTE in the field of magnetotellurics (MT), defending his doctoral dissertation in 2026. His specialisation is the theoretical and practical application of low-frequency electromagnetic geophysical research methods. His key competencies include the processing of MT datasets, their geological interpretation, and 3D electromagnetic numerical modelling. His professional activities extend to an in-depth knowledge of the physical and mathematical background of the method, the comprehensive planning and execution of field MT measurements, and model construction and data processing using integrated geophysical methods.

    Research Projects and Grants:

    • LitH2Oscope Lendület Research Group – MT measurements and data processing – 2020–2024
    • FluidsByDepth Lendület Research Group – MT data processing – 2025–
    • Levente Patkó PD grant – MT measurements in the Nógrád-Gemer Volcanic Field
    • Tamás Bozóki PD grant – EM and MT measurements at Hylaty, Poland – 2025
    • Topo-Transylvania International OTKA – MT data processing – 2024
    • HUN-REN Mobility grant – Slovak–Hungarian applied MT research in the Nógrád-Gemer region – 2024
    • HUN-REN Mobility grant – Slovak–Hungarian applied MT research in the Nógrád-Gemer region – 2025
    • Research Grant Hungary – coordination of ongoing MT research – 2025–

    Memberships / Professional Communities:

    • Association of Hungarian Geophysicists
    • IAGA

    Awards / Recognition:

    • Agocs Prize – 2020
    • Csókás János Prize – 2025

    Education:

    • Eötvös Loránd University – BSc in Physics (Geophysics specialisation) – 2018
    • Eötvös Loránd University – MSc in Geophysics (Applied Geophysics specialisation) – 2020
    • Eötvös Loránd University, Earth Sciences Doctoral School – PhD (Geology–Geophysics Programme) – 2026

    Recent / Featured Publications:

    • Rubóczki T., Novák A., Liptai N., Porkoláb K., Molnár C., Galsa A., Molnár G., Wesztergom V., Kovács I.J. (2024a): The Pannon LitH2Oscope magnetotelluric array in the Pannonian Basin. Acta Geodaetica et Geophysica. https://doi.org/10.1007/s40328-024-00434-1
    • Rubóczki T., Galsa A., Novák A., Prácser E. (2024b): 3D Magnetotellurikus numerikus modell fejlesztése. Magyar Geofizika.
    • Rubóczki T., Kővágó Á., Molnár C., Vozár J., Patkó L. (2025): Magnetotelluric field campaign in the Nógrád-Gömör Volcanic Field (Northern Pannonian Basin). Geophysical Observatory Reports. https://doi.org/10.55855/gor2024.5
    • Novák A., Rubóczki T., Wesztergom V., Radulian M., Szakács A., Molnár C., Kovács I.J. (2024): Lithospheric scale cross-section through the Transylvanian Basin: A joint geophysical and geological survey. Geologica Carpathica, 75(3). https://doi.org/10.31577/GeolCarp.2024.11
    • Kuslits L., Horváth A., Wesztergom V., Beggan C., Rubóczki T., Prácser E., Czirok L., Bozsó I., Lemperger I. (2024) An alternate representation of the geomagnetic core field obtained using machine learning. Earth, Planets and Space, https://doi.org/10.1186/s40623-024-02024-5
  • Szabóné André, Karolina Szabóné André, Karolina
    Szabóné André, Karolina

    Szabóné André, Karolina

    E-mail:
    Office 1.09
    Is away for a long time.   Previous responsibilities:
    • MTMT administrator (level 5)
    • FITT secretary
    • "librarian”
    • EISZ contact person
    • COMPASS administrator
    • innovation manager
    • secretarial assistant
    • young researcher
    • co-editor of Geophysical Observatory Reports/Geofizikai Obszervatóriumi Közlemények (http://gor.epss.hun-ren.hu/en/)
       

    Most important publications from the last 5 years

    Szabóné André, K., Bartholy, J., Pongrácz, R. and Bór, J.: Local identification of persistent cold air pool conditions in the Great Hungarian Plain. Időjárás - Quarterly Journal of the Hungarian Meteorological Service 125(2), 167–336, (2021). https://doi.org/10.28974/idojaras.2021.2.1 Kourtidis, K., Szabóné André, K., Karagioras, A., Nita, I.-A., Sátori, G., Bór, J. and Kastelis, N.: The influence of circulation weather types on the exposure of the biosphere to atmospheric electric fields. Int. J. Biometeorol., 65, 93–105 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00484-020-01923-y Bór, J., Sátori, G., Barta, V., Szabóné-André, K., Szendrői, J., Wesztergom, V., Bozóki, T., Buzás, A. and Koronczay, D.: Measurements of atmospheric electricity in the Széchenyi István Geophysical Observatory, Hungary. Hist. Geo Space. Sci., 11, 53–70, (2020). https://doi.org/10.5194/hgss-11-53-2020 Pieczka, I., Bartholy, J., Pongrácz, R. and Szabóné André, K.: Validation of RegCM regional and HadGEM global climate models using mean and extreme climatic variables. Időjárás - Quarterly Journal of the Hungarian Meteorological Service, 123(4), (2019). https://doi.org/10.28974/idojaras.2019.4.1 Pieczka, I., Pongrácz, R., Bartholy, J. and Szabóné André, K.: Future temperature projections for Hungary based on RegCM4.3 simulations using new Representative Concentration Pathways scenarios. International Journal of Global Warming, 15(3), 277-292 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1504/IJGW.2018.093121 Full list of publications in MTMT
  • Szárnya, Csilla Szárnya, Csilla Research assistant Research assistant +36 99-508-366
    Szárnya, Csilla

    Szárnya, Csilla

    Phone : +36 99-508-366
    E-mail:

    Publications:

    #ionosphere #meteor_ionization #radar_interferometry

    Career:

    Csilla Szárnya joined HUN-REN FI in 2019 as a doctoral student. Her research initially focused on studying the effect of the atmosphere, particularly the ionosphere, on radar interferometric processing. She also acquired expertise in displacement monitoring techniques, with a special proficiency in short baseline subset (SBAS) processing. During her doctoral studies, she began investigating ionospheric phenomena, including sporadic E layers and meteoric ionization. She is currently working on the study of transient ionospheric layers.

    Research Projects and Grants:

    • Seismotectonic hazard mapping and analysis of Hungary (2018-2.2.1-NKP-2018-00007) – participant
    • Cosmic effects and risks (GINOP-2.3.2-15-2016-00003) – participant
    • Czech-Hungarian bilateral international mobility grant (NKM2018-28) – participant
    • HUN-REN Mobility Programme: KMP-2023/77, KMP-2024/44, KMP-2025-II/8 – 2023/24, 2024/25, 2025/25 – principal investigator

    Memberships / Professional Communities:

    • Association of Hungarian Geophysicists – Secretary of the Sopron Regional Group – 2023-2026
    • Veszprém Area Committee of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Geophysics Working Committee – Secretary of the Sopron Group – 2023-2026

    Awards / Honours:

    • ISZA21 Special Prize – 2021

    Education:

    • PhD in progress – Eötvös Loránd University – 2026
    • MSc in Geophysics, Space Research and Remote Sensing specialisation – Eötvös Loránd University – 2019
    • BSc in Physics, Geophysics specialisation – Eötvös Loránd University – 2017

    Recent/ Selected publications:

    • Szűcs, E., Gönczy, S., Bozsó, I., Bányai, L., Szakács, A., Szárnya, Cs., & Wesztergom, V. (2021). Evolution of surface deformation related to salt-extraction-caused sinkholes in Solotvyno (Ukraine) revealed by Sentinel-1 radar interferometry. Natural Hazards and Earth System Sciences, 21(3), 977-993. (14) https://doi.org/10.5194/nhess-21-977-2021
    • Szárnya, Cs., Chum, J., Podolská, K., Kouba, D., Koucká Knížová, P., Mošna, Z., & Barta, V. (2023). Multi-instrumental detection of a fireball during Leonids of 2019. Frontiers in Astronomy and Space Sciences, 10, 1197832. https://doi.org/10.3389/fspas.2023.1197832
    • Szárnya, Cs., Mošna, Z., Igaz, A., Kouba, D., Verhulst, T.G.W., Koucká Knížová, P., Podolská, K., Barta, V. (2024) Technical Possibilities and Limitations of the DPS-4D Type of Digisonde in Individual Meteor Detections. Sens., 16, 2658. https://doi.org/10.3390/rs16142658
    • Koucká Knížová, P., Potužníková, K., Podolská, Šindelářová, K., Bozóki, T., Setvák, M., Pásztor, M., Szárnya, Cs., Mošna, Z., Kouba, D., Chum, J., Zacharov, P., Buzás, A., Hanzlíková, H., Kozubek, M., Burešová, D., Bozsó, I., Berényi, K.A., Barta, V. (2024). Impacts of Storm “Zyprian” on Middle and Upper Atmosphere Observed from Central European Stations. Remote Sensing, 16(22), 4338. https://doi.org/10.3390/rs16224338
    • Berényi, K.A., Barta, V., Szárnya, Cs., Buzás, A., Heilig, B. (2025) Subauroral and Auroral Conditions in the Mid- and Low-Midlatitude Ionosphere over Europe During the May 2024 Mother’s Day Superstorm. Sens, 17, 2492 https://www.mdpi.com/2072-4292/17/14/2492
  • Tomasik, Máté Tomasik, Máté Junior research fellow Junior research fellow +3670 778 57 61
    Tomasik, Máté

    Tomasik, Máté

    Phone : +3670 778 57 61
    E-mail:

    Publications:

    #space_weather #ionosphere #plasmasphere #geomagnetism

    Career:

    He obtained his BSc in Physics from Budapest University of Technology and Economics in 2020, then completed his MSc in Geophysics with a space research specialisation at Eötvös Loránd University in 2024. He is currently a doctoral student at the Doctoral School of Earth Sciences at ELTE. His research focuses on studying magnetosphere–ionosphere coupling processes based on satellite observations (Swarm, RBSP, DMSP, …). He also teaches undergraduate students in earth sciences and electrical engineering at ELTE and Óbuda University.

    Research Projects and Grants:

    • Monitoring the Sub-Auroral magnetosphere-Ionosphere Coupling at LEO (MOSAIC) – Researcher – 2026

    Awards / Recognition:

    • Agocs Award – 2024

    Education:

    • PhD – ELTE – in progress
    • MSc in Space Research Geophysics – ELTE – 2024
    • BSc in Physics – BME – 2020

    Recent / Selected Publications:

  • Tóthi Tamara Tóthi Tamara Research assistant Research assistant +3670 306 34 14
    Tóthi Tamara

    Tóthi Tamara

    Phone : +3670 306 34 14
    E-mail:

    Publications:

    #geothermal_energy_research #hydrogeology #numerical_modelling #temperature_modelling

    Career:

    She graduated in Earth Sciences with a specialisation in Geophysics from Eötvös Loránd University (ELTE). Already during her undergraduate studies, she participated in the research and outreach activities of the József and Erzsébet Tóth Hydrogeology Professorship research group. At that time, she wrote her Scientific Students' Association thesis on the topic of shallow geothermal energy utilisation. Alongside her MSc in Geophysics, she continued her work at the Professorship, where she was involved in risk assessment of geothermal investments and carried out hydrogeological numerical modelling in the Buda Thermal Karst. After completing her master's degree, she began her doctoral research under the joint supervision of researchers from HUN-REN Institute of Earth Physics and Space Science, the University of Twente, and Eötvös Loránd University. Her research focuses on advancing geothermal energy exploration through the integration of various methods (heat transport modelling, hydraulic data processing, multi-parameter geophysical inversion).

    Research Projects and Grants:

    • Research Grant Hungary – Research Assistant – 2025-2029

    Memberships / Professional Communities:

    • International Association of Hydrogeologists (IAH) – Associate Student Member
    • Society of Exploration Geophysicists (SEG) – Eötvös Student Chapter – Treasurer (2024-present)

    Awards / Honours:

    • Agocs Award – 2025

    Education:

    • PhD student – University of Twente, Faculty of Geo-Information Science and Earth Observation – 2025-2029
    • MSc in Geophysics – Eötvös Loránd University – 2025

    Recent / Selected publications:

    • Mádlné Szőnyi, J., Markó, Á., & Tóthi, T. (2024). Nem lehet mindenhol mindent, de mindenhol lehet valamit–A geotermikus energia hasznosításának lehetőségei a hazai ellátás diverzifikálása érdekében. Scientia et Securitas, 4(3), 153-168., https://doi.org/10.1556/112.2023.00198
    • Markó, Á., Tóthi, T., Szilágyi, I., Szijártó, M., Trásy-Havril, T., & Mádl-Szőnyi, J. (2024, June). Geological Risk Analysis of Geothermal Developments—Case Study of the Hypogene Buda Thermal Karst. In International Conference on Eurokarst(pp. 57-65). Cham: Springer Nature Switzerland., 1007/978-3-031-84338-9_8

Research staff

  • Barta, Veronika Barta, Veronika Senior Research Fellow Senior Research Fellow +36 99-508-381
    Barta, Veronika

    Barta, Veronika

    Phone : +36 99-508-381
    E-mail:

    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.
  • Békési, Eszter Békési, Eszter Research fellow Research fellow +36 99-508-367
    Békési, Eszter

    Békési, Eszter

    Phone : +36 99-508-367
    E-mail:

    Publications:

    #lithosphere research #geoenergy #stress field #rock deformation

    Career:

    Eszter Békési obtained her MSc degree at Eötvös Loránd University (Geophysicist, 2016) and her PhD at Utrecht University (2021). Since 2021, she has been a research fellow at the HUN-REN Institute of Earth Physics and Space Science. Her main research areas include the thermal and stress state of the lithosphere and rock deformation. Her applied research methods include numerical heat transport modelling, satellite-based surface displacement monitoring, and integrated interpretation of geophysical and geological datasets. In addition to regional research, she is also actively involved in geoenergy research (geothermal reservoirs, natural hydrogen).

    Research Projects and Grants:

    • NKFI Postdoctoral Excellence Grant (Deformation of siliciclastic reservoirs based on satellite surface displacements and advanced modelling techniques, PI, PD147116) – 2024–2026
    • FluidsbyDepth HAS Lendület Project (PI: Márta Berkesi, LP2022-2/2022) – participant – 2022–2027
    • NKFIH NKP Project (Development and analysis of a seismotectonic model of Hungary, 2018-1.2.1-NKP-2018-00007) – participant – 2021–2022

    Memberships / Professional Communities:

    • Association of Hungarian Geophysicists
    • International Lithosphere Program
    • European Geosciences Union
    • European Geothermal Energy Council
    • Editor of the international journals Acta Geodaetica et Geophysica (2022–)

    Awards / Recognition:

    • William B. and Elisabeth B. Agocs Geophysics Award, Eötvös Loránd University, 2016
    • Róbert Bárány Award for Young Researchers, HUN-REN, 2024
    • Edward A. Flinn–Pembroke J. Hart Award for Young Researchers, International Lithosphere Program, 2024

    Education:

    • PhD – Utrecht University – 2021
    • MSc – Geophysicist – Eötvös Loránd University – 2016
  • Benedek, Judit Benedek, Judit Research fellow Research fellow +36 99-508-363
    Benedek, Judit

    Benedek, Judit

    Phone : +36 99-508-363
    E-mail:

    Publications:

    #synthetic_modelling_of_Earth's_gravity_field #gravitational_field

    Career:

    Dr. Judit Benedek, a research fellow at the HUN-REN Institute of Earth Physics and Space Science, has been conducting scientific research since 1996 in the measurement and modelling of the Earth's gravitational field as a member of the Geodetic Research Unit. She also actively participates in the institute's geodynamic research, with particular focus on the observatory-based measurement, interpretation, and modelling of surface deformations caused by changes in the gravitational field. Dr. Judit Benedek obtained her university degree in mathematics from Babeș-Bolyai University in Cluj-Napoca in 1990, and her PhD in 2009 from the Kitaibel Pál Doctoral School of Environmental Sciences at the University of West Hungary. Her doctoral dissertation, supervised by Dr. Gábor Papp, addressed the synthetic modelling of the gravitational field. Using a three-dimensional polyhedral volume element model of the topography of the ALCAPA region, she estimated the effect of Earth's curvature and calculated the contributions of the geological structural units comprising the lithosphere (topography, Neogene–Quaternary sedimentary sequence, upper mantle) to the components of the Eötvös tensor at GOCE satellite altitude. From 1996 to 1999, she worked as a young researcher grantee of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences at the then MTA Geodetic and Geophysical Research Institute, subsequently becoming a research fellow there. She currently works at the HUN-REN Institute of Earth Physics and Space Science in the Geodetic Research Unit. Her scientific work focuses on developing computational algorithms to accelerate forward gravity modelling based on analytical formulas, achieved by optimally reducing the number of volume elements describing the model while minimising information loss in the computable gravitational field. Her results contribute to a better understanding of the Earth's gravitational field and internal density distribution. Furthermore, the modelling procedures she has further developed can be used for the analytical computation of the gravitational attraction of compact bodies — for example, for laboratory calibration of gravitational sensors, gravimeters, and pendulum-type tiltmeters. Over the past decade, as a member of the Geodetic Research Unit, she has also participated in the development of a local nanoradiant-resolution tiltmeter network located along the Mur–Mürz tectonic fault line near the Austrian–Hungarian border. In 2025, she received the prestigious international award "IAG BEST REVIEWER AWARD 2024."

    Research Projects and Grants:

    • OTKA T025318 – participant researcher – 1998
    • OTKA M041562 – participant researcher – 2002
    • OTKA T043413 – participant researcher – 2003
    • OTKA K101603 – participant researcher – 2011
    • OTKA K141969 – participant researcher – 2018
    • Eötvös Loránd Research Network Infrastructure Development Grant (ELKH-INFRA) – participant researcher – 2021

    Memberships / Professional Communities:

    • Hungarian Academy of Sciences (MTA) – Committee on Geodesy and Geoinformatics – voting member – 2009
    • Geomatikai Közlemények (Journal of Geomatics) – editorial board member – from 2013
    • International Association of Geodesy (IAG) SSG 3.177 Special Study Group – member – 1991–2011
    • IAG SG 2.2 Special Study Group – member – 1991–2011
    • Journal of Geodesy – reviewer

    Awards / Recognition:

    • IAG (International Association of Geodesy) Best Reviewer Award – 2024
    • Szádeczky-Kardoss Elemér Foundation First Prize – 2001
    • Hungarian Academy of Sciences Young Researcher Grant

    Education:

    • Doctoral degree – University of West Hungary – 2009
    • Degree in Mathematics – Babeș-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca, Romania – 1990
  • Berkesi, Márta Berkesi, Márta Lithosphere physics research unit leader Lithosphere physics research unit leader +36 1 248-23-14
    Berkesi, Márta

    Berkesi, Márta

    Phone : +36 1 248-23-14
    E-mail:

    Publications:

    #lithosphere #fluids #mantle degassing #fluid flux

    Career:

    Márta Berkesi earned her geologist degree in 2007 from Eötvös Loránd University in Budapest, Hungary. Her MSc thesis focused on comprehensive analyses of mantle fluid inclusions in central Europe's Pannonian Basin. In 2011, she completed her PhD, investigating mantle and CO2-H2O fluids under lithospheric mantle conditions through a collaborative effort between Eötvös Loránd University and Université de Lorraine (France). She worked as a postdoc at CNRS in Nancy, France and Budapest, Eötvös University. Since 2021, she works in HUN-REN Institute of Earth Physics and Space Science. Márta received three postdoctoral research grants funded by the Hungarian State and currently leads the Momentum FluidsByDepth Research group (https://fluidsbydepth.epss.hu/), sponsored by the Hungarian Academy of Sciences. Márta served as the chair of the organizing committee for the esteemed ECROFI meeting in 2019, focused on fluid inclusion studies. She has also held the role of convener at Goldschmidt2023, EGU2024&2025 and EMC2024. Marta is the elected council member of the European Association of Geochemistry (EAG), the Young Academy of Europe, and a member of the ECROFI (acronym for European Current Research on Fluid Inclusion) scientific committee. Her research focus is on mantle fluids and degassing, subduction fluids, and Raman spectroscopy of fluid inclusions.

    Research projects and Grants:

    • OTKA PD grant – Investigation of CO2-rich supercritical fluid - rock interaction in the deep lithosphere: complex research on fluid inclusions in ultramafic xenoliths – PI of the project – 2012-2015
    • NKFIH_K grant – Reconstruction of the magmatic processes of Kerimasi and Oldoinyo Lengai: 3D melt inclusion studies – Project member (PI: Tibor Guzmics) – 2017-2022
    • MTA Momentum project – Pargasosphere: or the new role of 'water' in the dynamics of the lithosphere-asthenosphere system as seen in the Pannonian Basin?! – Project member (voluntary, PI: István János Kovács) – 2018-2023
    • NKFIH_FK grant – Study of subduction fluids: 3D inclusion studies – PI of the project – 2019-2025
    • MTA Momentum project – Distribution and properties of fluid migrations in the lithosphere: fluid equilibrium and upward transport in the central part of the Pannonian Basin – PI of the MTA-EPSS FluidsByDepth Lendület research group – 2022-2027
    • NKFIH_K grant – Comparative study of silicate-carbonatite melt and fluid systems related to rifting – Project member (PI: Tibor Guzmics) – 2022-2026
    • Spanish National Research Project – H2RISE: Natural hydrogen and underground storage in rift-inversion systems – Project member (PI: Károly Hidas) – 2025-2029
    • UKinSPIRE (Seeding Partnerships for International Research Engagement) program of University of Kentucky – Exploring the Past to Power the Future: A New UK-Hungarian Partnership for Critical Mineral Research in Alkaline-Carbonatite Systems – Project member (PI: Georgina Lukoczky) – 2025-2026

    Memberships / Professional Communities:

    • Eötvös Loránd University Student Chapter of the Society of Economic Geology – secretary – 2006-2007
    • European Geosciences Union – member – 2008-
    • MTA – Public Board Member – 2012-
    • Eötvös Loránd University TTK-FFI Institute – Council member – 2016-2017
    • European Association of Geochemistry – Council member (2025-2027) – 2018-
    • Hungarian Geological Society – member, from 2021 member of the Board of the Subcommittee on Mineralogy, Petrology and Geochemistry – 2018-
    • MTA Geochemistry and Mineralogy Committee, Geological Subcommittee (2018-) – president from 2021-
    • AGU VGP Hisashi Kuno Award – Committee member – 2025–2027
    • ECROFI (European Current Research on Fluid Inclusions) – Scientific Committee member – 2025-
    • Young Academy of Europe – member – 2025-

    Awards / Recognition:

    • Annual Conference of Young Hungarian Earth Scientist, Balatonkenese (Hungary) – 1st place – 2006
    • Outstanding Student of the Faculty, Eötvös University, Budapest – 2006
    • Scientific Conference of Students held at Faculty of Science, Eötvös University, Budapest – 1st place – 2006
    • National Scientific Conference of Students held at University of Szeged, Szeged – 2nd place – 2007
    • Goldschmidt Student Travel Grant by the Geochemical Society for financially supporting the participation at the 17th Goldschmidt conference, Cologne – 2007
    • "Kriván Pál Commemorative Medallion" of the Hungarian Geological Society for the Master Thesis, Budapest – 2008
    • Grant of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences covering the participation at the 20th IMA meeting, Budapest – 2010
    • Szádeczky-Kardoss Elemér award of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences – 2012

    Education:

    • PhD in Earth Sciences (Ph.D.), qualification: summa cum laude – Eötvös Loránd University, Faculty of Sciences – 2011
    • M.Sc degree in Geology, mineralogy-petrology-geochemistry specification – Eötvös Loránd University (Budapest, Hungary) – 2007
     

  • Bór, József Bór, József Atmospheric Physics research unit leader Atmospheric Physics research unit leader +36 99-508-385
    Bór, József

    Bór, József

    Phone : +36 99-508-385
    E-mail:

    Publications:

    #lightning #atmospheric_electricity #global_atmospheric_electric_circuit #red_sprite #transient_luminous_events #atmospheric_electric_potential_gradient #extremely_low_frequency_radio_waves

    Career:

    Dr. József Bór studied at the University of Attila József, where he graduated as a secondary school teacher of physics and chemistry in 1996, and later obtained his doctoral degree at the University of West Hungary in 2011. He began his research career in 1998 at the Geodetic and Geophysical Research Institute of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, where he worked until 2011. From 2012, the institute continued as the Geodetic and Geophysical Institute within the Research Centre for Astronomy and Earth Sciences of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, where he pursued his research until 2021. Since then, he has been a Senior Research Fellow at the successor Institute of Earth Physics and Space Sciences. His research focuses on atmospheric electricity, lightning, and the global atmospheric electric circuit, which he has led within the framework of two major research grants. His work has been recognised with several awards, including the URSI Young Scientist Award (2005), the EGU Young Scientists' Travel Award for Europeans (2006), and he was twice named Outstanding Researcher of the Research Centre for Astronomy and Earth Sciences (2017, 2019).

    Research Projects and Grants:

    • Study of our global, regional and local electromagnetic environment using ELF transients (NKFIH OTKA K115836) – PI – 2016–2021
    • Development of new methods based on extremely low-frequency radiation of lightning for understanding electrical processes in the near-Earth environment (NKFIH OTKA K138824) – PI – 2021–2026

    Memberships / Professional Communities:

    • Association of PhD Students, coordinator of physics section — 1998–2002
    • Association of Hungarian Geophysicists, member — 2000–present
    • COST action P-18: The lightning flash and its effects, Management Committee member — 2005–2009
    • COST action CA15211: Atmospheric Electricity Network: coupling with the Earth System, climate and biological systems (ELECTRONET), Management Committee member — 2016–2021

    Awards / Recognition:

    • Quality Award of the Hungarian Association of Chemists, "A model to determine the core-wavefunction", diploma work — 1996
    • URSI Young Scientist Award, International Union of Radio Science (URSI), "Comparison of ELF Transients Observed at Two Separate Observatories", poster — 2005
    • Young Scientist's Travel Award for Europeans (YSTA), European Geosciences Union (EGU), "Comparison of lightning parameters deduced from ELF transients at two separate observatories", poster — 2006
    • Outstanding Researcher of the Research Centre for Atmospheric and Earth Sciences — 2017
    • Outstanding Researcher of the Research Centre for Atmospheric and Earth Sciences — 2019

    Education:

    • PhD – University of West Hungary – 2011
    • MSc in Physics and Chemistry (Secondary School Teacher) – University of Attila József – 1996
                                                   
  • Bozóki, Tamás Bozóki, Tamás Research fellow Research fellow
    Bozóki, Tamás

    Bozóki, Tamás

    E-mail:

    Publications:

    #aeronomy #atmospheric_electricity

    Career:

    Tamás Bozóki was born in 1993 in Tatabánya. He completed his secondary education in Szeged, then obtained his BSc in Physics (2016) and MSc in Geophysics (2018) at Eötvös Loránd University, with a specialisation in space science and remote sensing. He earned his doctoral degree in 2023 from the Doctoral School of Physics at the University of Szeged. He is currently a researcher at the HUN-REN Institute of Earth Physics and Space Sciences and at Óbuda University. His field of expertise is atmospheric electricity and aeronomy, with a focus on Schumann resonances, global lightning activity, and electromagnetic ion-cyclotron waves. His work to date is represented by 30 peer-reviewed publications, 124 independent citations, and numerous presentations at domestic and international conferences. Beyond his scientific activities, he is also a folk musician: as a member of the Korinda ensemble, he plays folk flute and violin, performing Hungarian and Romanian folk music.

    Research Projects and Grants:

    • "New perspectives in the study of global lightning activity as a fundamental climate indicator", OTKA PD (NKFIH), 2024–2026
    • "Development of the global geoelectric index", Bolyai Fellowship (HAS)
    • "Determination of the duration of lightning discharges using extremely low-frequency electromagnetic wave measurements", Hungarian State Eötvös Fellowship (Tempus)

    Memberships / Professional Communities:

    • National Representative, EAGE – 2024–
    • Hungarian Meteorological Society – 2024–
    • Scientific Secretary, Association of Hungarian Geophysicists – 2024–
    • Secretary, IUGG Hungarian National Committee – 2023–
    • Geophysical Observatory Reports – editor – 2021–
    • Association of Hungarian Geophysicists – 2014–
    • Eötvös József Collegium – 2012–2018

    Awards / Recognition:

    • HUN-REN Researcher Mobility Programme (KMP) – 2025
    • János Bolyai Research Fellowship – 2024–2026
    • Hungarian State Eötvös Fellowship, Kraków, Poland (3 months) – 2024
    • PITHIA-TNA research visit, Institute of Atmospheric Physics, Prague, Czech Republic (1 week) – 2023
    • ÚNKP Fellowship (12 months) – 2023–2024
    • ÚNKP Fellowship (6 months) – 2022–2023
    • Erasmus internship, AGH University of Science and Technology, Kraków, Poland (3 months) – 2021–2022
    • Young Researchers' Conference (ISZA), Special Award of the Institute of Earth Physics and Space Sciences – 2021
    • ÚNKP Fellowship (7 months) – 2021–2022
    • ÚNKP Fellowship (5 months) – 2020–2021
    • Outstanding Researcher of RCAES – 2019
    • STSM research visit (COST Electronet Action), Tel Aviv, Israel (1 week) – 2019
    • Erasmus internship, Sodankylä Geophysical Observatory, Sodankylä, Finland (2 months) – 2019
    • National Scientific Student Conference (OTDK), Special Award – 2019
    • ÚNKP Fellowship (5 months) – 2019–2020
    • Agocs Award – 2018
    • Faculty Scientific Student Conference (TDK), 1st place – 2018
    • ÚNKP Fellowship (10 months) – 2018–2019
    • ÚNKP Fellowship (10 months) – 2017–2018
    • National Higher Education Scholarship – 2017–2018
    • ÚNKP Fellowship (10 months) – 2016–2017
    • Erasmus internship, Krakow ELF group, Kraków, Poland (2 months) – 2016
    • ELTE Faculty of Natural Sciences, Outstanding Student of the Faculty – 2016
    • NYIFFF Physics Competition, 2nd place – 2016
    • National Scientific Student Conference (OTDK), 1st place – 2015
    • Faculty Scientific Student Conference (TDK), 1st place – 2014
    • NYIFFF Physics Competition, 3rd place – 2014
    • Eötvös Conference (EK), Best Presentation in Section – 2014
    • Young Researchers' Conference (ISZA), Szilárd József Special Award – 2014
    • NYIFFF Physics Competition, 2nd place – 2013

    Education:

    • PhD – University of Szeged – 2023
    • MSc in Geophysics – ELTE – 2018
    • BSc in Physics – ELTE – 2014
     
  • Csontos, András Csontos, András Research fellow Research fellow
    Csontos, András

    Csontos, András

    E-mail:

    Publications:

    #geomagnetic_observatory #geomagnetic_secular_network_of_Hungary #fluctuations_of_geomagnetic_gradients

    Career:

    András Csontos has more than twenty-five years of observatory experience at the Tihany Geophysical Observatory. His research areas include the development of magnetometers, signal processing of geomagnetic data, and space weather research. Over the past two decades, he has developed new observatory methods for the calibration and testing of magnetometers and UXO detectors. In the course of his work, he has participated in numerous geomagnetic surveys, including geophysical mapping, archaeomagnetic research, and secular magnetic measurements. He has led international projects and contributed to an EU-funded research programme. His particular area of interest is improving the accuracy of secular magnetic measurements, with special attention to the elimination of external field effects. One tool for this is the application of so-called on-site magnetometers. His most recent research focuses on investigating the effects of crustal structural features and electrical conductivity anomalies on the geomagnetic field.

    Research Projects and Grants:

    • OTKA K-75640 – Investigation of nonlinear and pulsating magnetohydrodynamic processes in near-Earth space using ground-based and satellite magnetic observations – co-investigator – 2008–2013
    • MEC_R 149329 – Participation in the XX. IAGA Geomagnetic Observatory Workshop – principal investigator – 2024-2025
    • HUNGARIAN–AMERICAN TéT 169/MO/01 – Investigation of the baseline behaviour of DIDD systems – principal investigator – 2002-2004
    • HUNGARIAN–AMERICAN TéT USA-1/2008 – USGS–ELGI cooperation in the development of magnetometers and a new geomagnetic index – principal investigator – 2008-2011
    • HUNGARIAN–CROATIAN TéT HR-9/2008 – Joint Croatian–Hungarian geomagnetic network survey and regional magnetic modelling – principal investigator – 2009-2011
    • PLASMON FP7-SPACE-2010-1 Collaborative Project – co-investigator – 2011–2014

    Memberships / Professional Communities:

    • Association of Hungarian Geophysicists – member – 1999-
    • Hungarian Geological Society – member – 2014-
    • INTERMAGNET Obscom – member – 2024-

    Education:

    • Doctoral degree – Eötvös Loránd University – 2022
    • MSc in Physics–Mathematics – József Attila University – 1996

    Recent / Featured Publications:

    • Csontos, A., Šugar, D., Brkić, M., Kovács, P., & Hegymegi, L. (2012). How to control a temporary DIDD based observatory in the field? Annals of Geophysics, 55(6), 1085–1094. https://doi.org/10.4401/ag-5447
    • Šugar, D., Csontos, A., & Brkić, M. (2015). Geomagnetic survey on Sinjsko Polje repeat station and data reduction using the onsite dIdD variometer. Tehnički Vjesnik – Technical Gazette, 22(3), 615–622. https://doi.org/10.17559/TV-20130905145106
    • Csontos, A., Kónya, P., Falus, G., & Besnyi, A. (2019). Unstable spatial differences of the geomagnetic elements caused by changing water saturation of a volcanic sediment. Annals of Geophysics, 61(6). https://doi.org/10.4401/ag-6691
    • Csontos, A., & Šugar, D. (2024). Dataset of geomagnetic absolute measurements performed by Declination and Inclination Magnetometer (DIM) and nuclear magnetometer during the joint Croatian–Hungarian repeat station campaign in the Adriatic region. Data in Brief, 54. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.dib.2024.110276
    • Kovács, P., Csontos, A., Heilig, B., & Koppán, A. (2012). Hungarian repeat station survey, 2010. Annals of Geophysics, 55(6), 1113–1119. https://doi.org/10.4401/ag-5354
  • Deme, Livia Rozália Deme, Livia Rozália Innovation manager, research assistant Innovation manager, research assistant
    Deme, Livia Rozália

    Deme, Livia Rozália

    E-mail:

    Publications:

    #space_weather #meteor_research #ionosonde

    Career:

    She began her scientific work in 2013–2014 as a voluntary student at the Editorial Office of the Society for the Dissemination of Scientific Knowledge. Subsequently, in 2015, she also carried out voluntary work at the Hungarian Astronomical Association, where she participated in editing the website. Between 2016 and 2017, she worked as a research assistant at the Konkoly Observatory of the MTA Research Centre for Astronomy and Earth Sciences, where she performed astrometric reduction of CCD imaging data using the Astrometrica software. Between 2017 and 2018, again at the same institution, she worked as a student on the processing and photometry of supernova imaging data in the IRAF (Image Reduction and Analysis Facility) environment. Between 2018 and 2019, she became a copy editor and editorial office manager at the Society for the Dissemination of Scientific Knowledge. Between 2020 and 2023, she worked as a research assistant at the Konkoly Thege Miklós Astronomical Institute of the HUN-REN Research Centre for Astronomy and Earth Sciences, where her tasks included operating automated meteor cameras, data processing, and statistical analysis of meteor data. Since 2024, she has been the innovation manager of the HUN-REN Institute of Earth Physics and Space Science, as well as a research assistant in the Space Research and Space Technology research unit.

    Research Projects and Grants:

    • Cosmic effects and risks (GINOP-2.3.2-15-2016-00003) – research assistant – 2020-2023
    • Grant No. SA-95/2021 – research assistant – 2024

    Memberships / Professional Communities:

    • Hungarian Astronomical Association – member – 2026-
    • Hungarian Astronautical Society – member – 2026-

    Awards / Recognition:

    • SZTE Talent Excellence List Bronze Level – 2024/2025

    Education:

    • BSc in Earth Sciences – Eötvös Loránd University – 2023
    • MSc in Astronomy – University of Szeged – in progress
  • Fodor, László Fodor, László Earth Observation research unit leader Earth Observation research unit leader
  • Galsa, Attila Galsa, Attila Senior research fellow Senior research fellow
    Galsa, Attila

    Galsa, Attila

    E-mail:

    Publications:

    #subsurface_water_flow #numerical_modelling #borehole_geophysics #dc_measurement_modelling

    Career:

    Dr. Attila Galsa received his MSc degree in geophysics in 1997, followed by a PhD in Earth sciences, specialising in geophysics, at Eötvös Loránd University (ELTE) in 2004. He has since been working at the Department of Geophysics and Space Science at ELTE, formerly as assistant professor and currently as associate professor. He joined the HUN-REN Institute of Earth Physics and Space Science in 2023 as a part-time senior research fellow. His doctoral dissertation addressed the numerical modelling of thermal convection in the Earth's mantle, after which his scientific interest gradually shifted towards subsurface water flow. This remains his primary research profile, with particular focus on the modelling of heat, solute, and age transport, through which he studies the dynamic interplay of forces driving subsurface water flow in both homogeneous and heterogeneous environments. In addition, he has several decades of experience in the numerical modelling of direct current borehole geophysical probes, surface geoelectric arrays, and magnetotelluric methods. Beyond his academic research, he has been working for more than twenty years as a consultant at Geo–Log Environmental and Geophysical Ltd., primarily evaluating well tests of thermal wells. Through this work, as well as through modelling heat transport in subsurface waters, he has acquired both practical and theoretical experience in addressing and solving geothermal problems.

    Research projects and grants:

    • National Laboratory for Climate Change — Multidisciplinary Research, Impact of climate change on the subsurface components of the hydrological cycle, direct and indirect ecological effects and adaptation – participant – 2022-2025
    • Budapest Geothermal Research Programme – participant – 2023-2024
    • ENeRAG – Excellency Network Building for Comprehensive Research and Assessment of Geofluids, H–2020 – participant – 2018-2022
    • Foundations of a high-resolution 3D geothermal model of Hungary: renewal and applications of the geothermal database, NKFI: K–129279 – participant – 2018-2022
    • Numerical modelling of the dynamics of mantle convection and its surface manifestations, OTKA: K-72665 – participant – 2008-2012
    • Final disposal of low and intermediate level radioactive waste – participant – 1998-2003

    Memberships / Professional communities:

    • European Geosciences Union – member – 2026-
    • HAS, Section of Earth Sciences, Committee on Geophysics – member – 2021-
    • AGOCS Geophysical Research Fund – permanent board member – 2011-
    • Association of Hungarian Geophysicists, Scientific Committee – member – 2006-
    • Hungarian Academy of Sciences – Public Body Member – 2005-
    • Association of Hungarian Geophysicists – member – 1994-

    Awards / Recognition:

    • Elemér Szádeczky-Kardoss Prize, HAS Section of Earth Sciences – 2009
    • AGOCS Geophysical Research Fund, William B. and Elizabeth Behr Agocs Geophysical Research Fund – 2005
    • József Szilárd Prize, Association of Hungarian Geophysicists and Hungarian Geological Society – 2000

    Education:

    • Habilitation: Earth sciences – Eötvös Loránd University – 2022
    • PhD: Earth sciences – geophysics – Eötvös Loránd University – 2004
    • MSc: geophysics – Eötvös Loránd University – 1997
  • Gribovszki, Katalin Eszter Gribovszki, Katalin Eszter Senior research fellow Senior research fellow +36 99-508-387
    Gribovszki, Katalin Eszter

    Gribovszki, Katalin Eszter

    Phone : +36 99-508-387
    E-mail:

    Publications:

    #speleoseismology #seismic_hazard #deterministic_seismic_hazard_computations #GIS

    Career:

    She obtained a degree in environmental engineering at the University of Sopron in 1998. In 1999, she received a young researcher scholarship at the MTA Geodetic and Geophysical Research Institute, where she expanded her GIS knowledge and became involved in the development of a domestic seismotectonic GIS system at the Seismological Department, as well as assisting with GIS tasks at the Geodetic Department. Between 2000 and 2002, she studied geoinformatics and consequently obtained a postgraduate degree in geoinformatics at the Budapest University of Technology and Economics. In 2002, 2003, and 2004, she spent a total of nearly one year (under an EU Marie Curie Fellowship) at the Department of Earth Sciences, University of Trieste, where, working alongside the local research group, she was engaged in deterministic seismic hazard analysis and seismic microzonation. In autumn 2004, she participated in a six-week international seismological training course at the GeoForschungsZentrum in Potsdam. In 2006, she successfully defended her PhD dissertation at the Kitaibel Pál Environmental Doctoral School of the University of West Hungary. Her doctoral research topic was: "GIS-based investigation of the geo-environment of low-to-moderately active areas in Hungary for the identification of potential earthquake sources, and deterministic seismic hazard and risk analysis for the city of Debrecen." In the years following her doctoral defence, she worked on estimating the strength of palaeoearthquakes by studying intact but vulnerable stalagmites (speleoseismology) in Hungary, Bulgaria, and Slovakia, and also prepared a seismic hazard map of Budapest using a hybrid variant of the deterministic hazard computation method. Between 2013 and 2019, she was a postdoctoral fellow at the Department of Geophysics, University of Vienna, where she was engaged in measuring the vibrations of slender stalagmites in karst caves and determining their natural frequencies using analytical and numerical methods. She estimated upper bounds for the strength of earthquakes predating historical records using the parameters of intact stalagmites found in caves in the Little Carpathians in Slovakia and in Austria. She carried out measurements of the natural frequencies of stalagmites in karst caves using horizontal geophones (SM-6 and LF-24) and introduced laser vibrometer (Polytec PDV-100) measurements of stalagmites in the Central-Eastern European region. Between 2020 and 2024, she worked at the Kövesligethy Radó Seismological Observatory processing macroseismic questionnaires (public reports on sensations experienced during earthquakes) and participated in the on-duty operations of the National Seismological Network. She also modelled the vibration and fracture of slender, vulnerable stalagmites under the effect of seismic waves using a finite element numerical method with real seismic waveforms, taking into account a robust 3D FEM stalagmite model. She teaches technical subjects at the Faculty of Forestry, University of Sopron.

    Research projects and Grants:

    • Bolyai János Research Scholarship (Hungarian Academy of Sciences) and Bolyai+ (ÚNKP-19-4, New National Excellence Program, Ministry for Innovation and Technology) – Long-term seismic hazard information from intact vulnerable stalagmites – PI and project coordinator – 2018–2020
    • Speleo-Seismological Investigations in the Carpathian basin (PI: Prof. Götz Bokelmann, University of Vienna) – Estimation of an upper limit on prehistoric peak ground acceleration using the parameters of intact stalagmites in karstic caves – PI and project coordinator – 2014–2019
    • Scholarship of the Scholarship Foundation of the Republic of Austria for Post-docs (Dokument ID: 32698) – Estimation of an upper limit on prehistoric peak ground acceleration using the parameters of intact stalagmites in Austrian caves – PI, postdoctoral research fellow – 2013–2014
    • OTKA K105399 (PI: Dr. Erzsébet Győri) – Seismic hazard and microzonation of Budapest – participant researcher – 2013–2016
    • OTKA K109060 (PI: Prof. Gyula Mentes, Geodetic and Geophysical Institute, Research Centre for Astronomy and Earth Science, Hungarian Academy of Sciences) – Global and regional deformation spaces – participant researcher – 2013–2018
    • Bilateral projects between Hungarian Academy of Sciences and Slovak Academy of Sciences (Host colleague: Dr. Ladislav Brimic; PI in Hungary: Prof. Péter Varga) – Assessment of the peak ground horizontal acceleration generated by paleoearthquakes from failure tensile stress of speleothems. Study of seismicity of the remote past with the use of engineering seismology. – project coordinator – 2010–2012
    • OTKA K78332 (PI: Prof. László Bányai) – Kinematic and dynamic models of landslides by means of geodetic observations along the high bank of the Danube at Dunaszekcső, Hungary – participant researcher, lead researcher of project subtask – 2009–2012
    • Research contract between Allianz Hungária Insurance Ltd. and the MTA Geodetic and Geophysical Research Institute – Investigation of seismic hazard of Budapest and its immediate surroundings based on specific soil conditions – participant researcher – 2010
    • CEI project 1202.038-09 (PI: Prof. G.F. Panza, University of Trieste) – Unified Seismic Hazard Mapping for the Territory of Romania, Bulgaria, Serbia and Republic of Macedonia – participant researcher – 2010–2011
    • Research contract between Generali-Providencia Insurance Ltd. and the MTA Geodetic and Geophysical Research Institute – Investigation of seismic risk of downtown Budapest (deterministic method) – PI – 2008
    • Hungarian-Bulgarian bilateral project between Academies of Sciences (No. 42) (Host colleague: Prof. Ivanka Paskaleva; PI in Hungary: Dr. Győző Szeidovitz) – Assessment of the peak ground horizontal acceleration generated by paleo-earthquakes from failure tensile stress of speleothems. Study of seismicity of the remote past with the use of engineering seismology. – project coordinator – 2006–2007
    • IKTA5-142/2002 (PI in GGRI of HAS: Prof. József Závoti) – Intelligent miner data analysis centre (analysing earthquake epicenters data as well) – project coordinator – 2003–2005
    • OTKA T043413 (PI: Dr. Gábor Papp, MTA GGKI) – New forward and inverse methods for the synthetic modelling of the gravity field – participant researcher – 2003–2006
    • OTKA T038099 (PI: Dr. Győző Szeidovitz, MTA GGKI) – Integrated study of recent earthquakes and paleoearthquakes in the Carpathian basin – participant researcher – 2002–2005
    • EVG1-2001-00061 OASYS (PI: Dr. Gyula Mentes, MTA GGKI) – Integrated Optimization of Landslide Alert Systems, EU5 – participant researcher – 2003–2004
    • Unknown project ID (PI: Dr. László Bányai, MTA GGKI) – Regular geodynamical study of the Paks Nuclear Power Plant 5km surroundings – participant researcher – 2000–2008
    • European Union, Marie Curie fellowship, EVK2-CT-2000-57002 (PI: Prof. G.F. Panza, University of Trieste) – Deterministic seismic hazard computations for Debrecen, Hungary by applying hybrid method and seismic microzonation of Debrecen – project coordinator paid by PhD scholarship – 2003
    • European Union, Marie Curie fellowship, EVK2-CT-2000-57002 (PI: Prof. G.F. Panza, University of Trieste) – Modelling of seismic ground motion and its amplification along some profiles in the city of Debrecen – project coordinator paid by PhD scholarship – 2001–2002
    • Final dumping of small and middle intensity radioactive waste from power plant; local geodynamical investigation of Mecsekalja fault line by geodetic methods surrounding Ófalu (PI: Dr. Gyula Mentes, MTA GGKI; Employer: Hungarian Geological Institute, MÁFI)  – participant researcher – 2001–2004
    • OTKA T025318 (PI: Dr. Gábor Papp, MTA GGKI) – Modeling of gravity field of Carpathian Basin – participant researcher – 2000–2002
    • AKP 98-68 2,5 (PI: Dr. László Bányai, MTA GGKI) – Integral study of geodetic environmental analysis methods on the Sóskut network – participant researcher – 1999–2000
    • INCO-COPERNICUS PROGRAMME, Contract N°ERBIC15-CT96-0203 (Principal coordinator: Prof. Mauro Dolce; PI in Hungary: Dr. Győző Szeidovitz, MTA GGKI) – European Network on Seismic Risk, Vulnerability and Earthquake Scenarios (ENSeRVES) – participant researcher – 1997–2000
    • PHARE project/OSS No. ZZ9524 0106 L001 (PI: Dr. István Márkus, University of Sopron) – Development of GIS of Fertő-Hanság National Park and Szigetköz Landscape-protection Area – participant researcher – 1998–2000

    Memberships / Professional communities:

    • Association of Hungarian Geophysicists – member – 1999-
    • Association of Hungarian Geologists – member – 2017-
    • Hungarian Society for Surveying, Mapping and Remote Sensing – member – 2006-ig
    • Section of Earth Sciences of Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Scientific Committee on Geodetic – member – 2006-
    • European Geophysical Union (EGU) – member – 2013-

    Awards / Recognition:

    • Bolyai+ (ÚNKP-19-4, New National Excellence Program) research scholarship award, by Ministry for Innovation and Technology – 2019–2020
    • Bolyai János research scholarship award, by Hungarian Academy of Sciences – 2018–2020
    • A. Meskó award (Paper of the year), by Association of Hungarian Geophysicists – 2011
    • Szádeczky-Kardos Elemér Award of the GeoSciences (X.) Department of Hungarian Academy of Sciences – II. prize – 2006
    • 4th National University Environmental Student Conference – special prize – 1998
    • Diploma Work Award of HUNGIS (Hungarian Geoinformatics) Foundation – III. prize – 1998

    Education:

    • BSc, Matematika – Savaria Egyetemi Központ, Nyugat-magyarországi Egyetem – 2010
    • PhD – Geo-környezettudományi Program, Kitaibel Pál Környezettudományi Doktori Iskola, Nyugat-magyarországi Egyetem – Disszertáció címe: Földrengések geofizikai és földtani környezetének, valamint Debrecen város determinisztikus szeizmikus veszélyeztetettségének vizsgálata Geographic Information System eszközökkel – 2006
    • MSc, Geoinformatika – Alkalmazott geoinformatika posztgraduális szak, Építőmérnöki Kar, Budapesti Műszaki és Gazdaságtudományi Egyetem – 2002
    • MSc, Környezetmérnök – Környezetmérnöki szak, Erdőmérnöki Kar, Nyugat-magyarországi Egyetem – 1998

    University lectures:

    • 2019-2026: “Geodesy” lecture course at the University of Sopron, Sopron, Hungary
    • 1997-2006: Practice and lecture courses in “Geographical Information System”, “Monitoring and modelling”, “Environmental Informatics”; “Descriptive geometry” at the University of Sopron (former University of West Hungary), Sopron, Hungary

    Extended international research visits and professional training:

    • Postdoc research worker (fellowship and part-time job) – Seismological Group, Department of Meteorology and Geophysics, University of Vienna, Austria – Estimation of the upper limit of prehistoric earthquakes using the parameters of intact speleothems in Austria, in Hungary and in the Small Carpathians, Slovakia (in-situ measurements in karstic caves) – 2013-2019 (for 6 years)
    • Visiting scientist – Seismological Group, Department of Earth Sciences, University of Trieste, Italy, Financed by Generali project  – Modelling seismic wave propagation by hybrid method and producing seismic hazard and risk maps for the territory of the capital of Hungary (Budapest) – Seismic microzonation of Budapest – 2008 (for 2 months, April-May)
    • Visiting PhD. Student – Seismological Group, Department of Earth Sciences, University of Trieste, Italy, Fellow financed by European Union Marie Curie Fellowship, Research Programme: ESD – Contract Number: EVK2-CT-2000-57002 – Modelling seismic wave propagation by hybrid method and producing seismic hazard and risk maps for the territory of Debrecen city Hungary; Seismic microzonation of Debrecen. – 2001, 2002 (for 4 months between 2001 Nov. and 2002 Febr) and 2003 (for 4 months from March to July)
         
  • Győri, Erzsébet Győri, Erzsébet Senior research fellow Senior research fellow +36 1-248-2314
    Győri, Erzsébet

    Győri, Erzsébet

    Phone : +36 1-248-2314
    E-mail:

    Publications:

    #seismology#seismic_hazard

    Career:

    Erzsébet Győri graduated as a geophysicist from Eötvös Loránd University in 1983, and then started working at the Department of Geophysics. After a six-year break, she conducted her research in the MTA-ELTE Geophysical Research Group until 2006. She obtained her PhD in 2005. After the research group was discontinued, she began working at the Geodetic and Geophysical Research Institute of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences (now HUN-REN FI) in Sopron from 2007. Her main research areas within the seismology are seismic hazard assessment and site amplification. She has also participated in the implementation of several industrial projects and is actively involved in educating future generations. She taught at the ELTE Department of Geophysics for several years and has supervised numerous BSc, MSc and PhD theses and research projects. Since her retirement in 2025, she has been working part-time at the institute.

    Research projects and Grants:

    • NKFIH OTKA 38099 – participant – 2002-2005
    • NKFIH OTKA 81295 – participant – 2010-2014
    • TAMOP-4.2.2.C-11/1/KONV-2012-0015 – participant – 2012-2014
    • NKFIH OTKA 105399 – principal investigator  – 2013-2016
    • NKFIH 2018-2.2.1-NKP-2018-00007 – participant – 2018-2023

    Memberships / Professional communities:

    • Hungarian Academy of Sciences — public body member
    • Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Geophysical Scientific Committee – member
    • Hungarian Geophysical Association — member
    • Working Group of the Interministerial Committee for Disaster Management Coordination – member
    • European Facilities for Earthquake Hazard and Risk (EFEHR) – representative of the institute

    Awards / Recognition:

    • Agocs avard – 2005

    Education:

    • PhD – Eötvös Loránd University – 2005
    • MSc in Geophysics – Eötvös Loránd University – 1983
  • Haszpra Tímea Haszpra Tímea Senior research fellow Senior research fellow
    Haszpra Tímea

    Haszpra Tímea

    E-mail:

    Publications:

    #atmospheric_pollution_dispersion #atmospheric_teleconnections #chaos_theory #climate_change

    Career:

    Tímea Haszpra completed her studies at Eötvös Loránd University (ELTE), where she obtained a degree in meteorology in 2010 and a degree in computer science in 2018. She received her doctoral degree in 2014 from the Environmental Sciences Doctoral School at ELTE. Her doctoral research examined the chaotic characteristics of atmospheric pollution dispersion using the RePLaT dispersion model, which was developed specifically for this purpose during the research. She began her research career at the Department of Theoretical Physics at ELTE, where she conducted research at the intersection of atmospheric advection and sedimentation processes and chaos theory. Her interests later shifted towards investigating the dynamics of the climate system and the internal variability of climate. Together with her colleagues, she achieved significant results in the application of ensemble climate simulations and snapshot attractor theory, which enable the investigation of the statistical properties of processes occurring under changing climatic conditions. At the HUN-REN Institute of Earth Physics and Space Science, she investigates the relationship between lightning and climate within the framework of atmospheric electricity research.

    Research Projects and Grants:

    • The effect of climate change on atmospheric dispersion processes – a dynamical approach (NKFIH FK-124256) – principal investigator – 2017-2020
    • Ensemble approach in climate dynamics and non-equilibrium processes (NKFIH K-125171) – participant researcher – 2017-2023
    • Climate change and atmospheric dispersion processes (NKFIH PD-121305) – principal investigator – 2016-2019
    • Physical mechanisms of global environmental processes (OTKA NK-100296) – participant researcher – 2012-2016

    Memberships / Professional Communities:

    • Hungarian Academy of Sciences – public body member – 2015-
    • Hungarian Meteorological Society – member – 2006-

    Awards / Recognition:

    • Götz Gusztáv Publication Award (Hungarian Meteorological Society) – 2021
    • Róbert Bárány Award (Eötvös Loránd Research Network) – 2021
    • Bolyai Plaque (Hungarian Academy of Sciences) – 2020
    • ÚNKP-18-4 Bolyai+ Higher Education Young Lecturer and Researcher Scholarship (New National Excellence Programme of the Ministry of Human Capacities) – 2018/2019
    • Dévényi Dezső Numerical Forecasting Memorial Medal (Hungarian Meteorological Service) – 2018
    • Róna Zsigmond Foundation Award (Hungarian Meteorological Society) – 2016
    • Environmental Science Youth Award (Hungarian Academy of Sciences) – 2014
    • Pro Scientia Gold Medal – 2011

    Education:

    • Ph.D. – Eötvös Loránd University / Environmental Sciences Doctoral School / Environmental Physics Programme – 2014
    • MSc – Meteorology – Eötvös Loránd University – 2010
  • Heilig, Balázs Heilig, Balázs Deputy director general, Senior research fellow Deputy director general, Senior research fellow
    Heilig, Balázs

    Heilig, Balázs

    E-mail:
    Office Tihany Geophysical Observatory

    Publications:

    #space weather #space research #space physics #magnetosphere #plasmasphere #ionosphere #geomagnetism

    Career:

    He completed his university studies at Eötvös Loránd University (ELTE) in Mathematics Education (1989–1994) and later obtained a PhD in Physics of the Near-Earth Space environment at the same university. In 1998, he joined the Tihany Geophysical Observatory of the Eötvös Loránd Geophysical Institute (ELGI), initially working on geomagnetism and later on magnetospheric wave phenomena. His research interests expanded to include magnetosphere–solar wind interactions, and magnetosphere–ionosphere coupling in complex coupled systems. Since 2012, he has been the coordinator of the European quasi-Meridional Magnetometer Array (EMMA), which he organized.

    Research projects and Grants:

    • ESA RPA Monitoring the Sub-Auroral Magnetosphere–Ionosphere Coupling at LEO (MOSAIC) – 2025–2027
    • ESA Swarm DISC EPSS activity – 2024–2029
    • ESA S2P Space Weather Service Network (SWESNET) – 2024–2028
    • EU H2020 FARBES – 2022–2026
    • ESA Swarm DISC ULF wave activity – 2022–2024
    • ESA S2P Radiation Belt Forecast and Nowcast 2 (RB-FAN2) – 2022–2026
    • ESA S2P Plasmaspheric Products for Space Weather Services (PLASMA) – 2020–2024
    • ESA New Space Weather Information Exploited from Swarm Observations (EPHEMERIS) – 2019–2020
    • ESA PECS Exploitation of Swarm data for space weather monitoring purposes (Swarm4SWE) – 2015–2017
    • EU FP7-SPACE-2010-1 A new, ground-based data assimilative modeling of the Earth’s plasmasphere – a critical contribution to Radiation Belt modeling for Space Weather purposes (PLASMON) – 2011–2014

    Memberships/Professional Communities:

    • Eötvös Loránd Geophysical Institute – Research Fellow – 1998–2012
    • International Heliophysical Year 2007 – Project Coordinator: CIP 37: “ULF waves” 2006–
    • Coordinator of the MM100 magnetometer network – 2001–2012
    • Hungarian Geological and Geophysical Institute – Senior Researcher – 2012–2017
    • CERN (European Organization for Nuclear Research) – Associate Member – 2017–2020
    • ELTE Department of Geophysics and Space Science – Senior Researcher – 2020–2025
    • ELKH Institute for Earth Physics and Space Science – Senior Researcher – 2022–2023
    • HUN-REN Institute for Earth Physics and Space Science – Senior Researcher – 2023–2024
    • HUN-REN Institute for Earth Physics and Space Science – Deputy Director / Senior Researcher – 2024–
    • Óbuda University, Space Lab – Senior Researcher – 2025–

    Awards/Recognition:

    • Szilárd József Award, Eötvös Loránd Geophysical Foundation – 2001
    • MTA GGKI Special Award – 2005
    • MTA János Bolyai Research Fellowship – 2014

    Education:

    • PhD in Geophysics – ELTE – 2014
    • MSc in Mathematics and Physics Education – ELTE – 1994
  • Hencz, Mátyás Hencz, Mátyás Research fellow, data steward Research fellow, data steward
    Hencz, Mátyás

    Hencz, Mátyás

    E-mail:

    Publications:

    #volcano #basalt #fluid #water-magma

    Career:

    Mátyás Hencz is an Earth scientist whose research focuses on the interpretation of volcanic processes in volcanic areas (alkaline and calc-alkaline), physical volcanology, landscape evolution, and geochemistry. He completed his studies at the Faculty of Natural Sciences of Eötvös Loránd University. He obtained his BSc degree in environmental geography, with his thesis analysing traces of maar–diatreme and tuff ring volcanism at Badacsony. He received his MSc degree in 2017 in geomorphology, with his diploma work addressing the volcanological investigation and correlation of silica-rich pyroclastites exposed in the northern foreland of the Mátra. During his student years, his research results were recognised with a special prize at the National Scientific Student Conference. He obtained his PhD degree in 2022 in the Geography–Meteorology Doctoral Programme of the Earth Sciences Doctoral School, with a summa cum laude distinction. His doctoral research focused on the stratigraphic, palaeomagnetic, and geochemical investigation of silica-rich pyroclastites of the Bükkalja region. Since then, he has been a research fellow, working primarily within the framework of the MTA-FI FluidsByDepth Lendület Research Group. Since October 2024, he has been the data steward of our institute.

    Research Projects and Grants:

    • New National Excellence Programme 2021 – "Science Forward!" Higher Education Doctoral Candidate and Postdoctoral Researcher Scholarship, 12 months, topic: "Event stratigraphy of the Miocene pyroclastites of the Bükkalja region"
    • New National Excellence Programme 2020 – Higher Education Doctoral Student Researcher Scholarship, 7 months, topic: "Traces of silica-rich phreatomagmatism in the Bükkalja region", evaluation: excellent
    • HUN-REN Researcher Mobility Programme – 2024, participation in ILP conference (Kraków, Poland)
    • MTA Youth International Conference Scientific Grant – 2025, participation in IAVCEI Scientific Assembly (Geneva, Switzerland)

    Memberships / Professional Communities:

    • Hungarian Academy of Sciences – public body member – 2023–
    • IAVCEI Early Career Researcher – member – 2024–
    • IAS – full member – 2025–
    • Hungarian Geological Society – member – 2024–

    Awards / Recognition:

    • Outstanding Student of the Faculty of Natural Sciences, ELTE – 2017
    • XXXIII. National Scientific Student Conference – Special Prize
    • 50th Conference of Young Earth Scientists – 3rd place, Theoretical category – 2019
    • 50th Conference of Young Earth Scientists – Biocentrum Ltd. Special Prize – 2019
    • 50th Conference of Young Earth Scientists – Audience Award, Best Presentation – 2019
    • 10th Petrology and Geochemistry Conference – 3rd place, Oral presentation category – 2019
    • New National Excellence Programme – 2020
    • New National Excellence Programme – 2021

    Education:

    • PhD – Eötvös Loránd University, Faculty of Natural Sciences, Earth Sciences Doctoral School – 2022
    • MSc in Geography – Eötvös Loránd University – 2017

    Recent / Featured Publications:

    • Hencz, M., Békési, E., Patkó, L., Spránitz, T., Hidas, K., Németh, K., Kovács, I. J., Biró, T., Cloetingh, S., Szabó, C., Koptev, A., & Berkesi, M. (2026). Quantifying geological CO2 accumulation in the subcontinental lithospheric mantle during post-rift evolution of a sedimentary basin (Bakony-Balaton Highland Volcanic Field, Pannonian Basin, Central Europe). Global and Planetary Change, 260, 105377. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gloplacha.2026.105377
    • Hencz, M., Németh, K., Spránitz, T., Biró, T., Karátson, D., & Berkesi, M. (2024). Evolution and polycyclic nature of a maar-diatreme volcano as constrained by changing external factors. Journal of Volcanology and Geothermal Research, 453, 108158. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jvolgeores.2024.108158
    • Hencz, M., Biró, T., Németh, K., Szakács, A., Portnyagin, M., Cseri, Z., Pécskay, Z., Szabó, C., Müller, S., & Karátson, D. (2024). Lithostratigraphy of the ignimbrite-dominated Miocene Bükk Foreland Volcanic Area (Central Europe). Journal of Volcanology and Geothermal Research, 445, 107960. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jvolgeores.2023.107960
    • Hencz, M., Biró, T., Németh, K., Porkoláb, K., Kovács, I. J., Spránitz, T., Cloetingh, S., Szabó, C., & Berkesi, M. (2023). Tectonically-determined distribution of monogenetic volcanoes in a compressive tectonic regime: An example from the Pannonian continental back-arc system (Central Europe). Journal of Volcanology and Geothermal Research, 444, 107940. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jvolgeores.2023.107940
    • Hencz, M., Biró, T., Kovács, I. J., Stalder, R., Németh, K., Szakács, A., Pálos, Zs., Pécskay, Z., & Karátson, D. (2021). Uniform "water" content in quartz phenocrysts from silicic pyroclastic fallout deposits – implications on pre-eruptive conditions. European Journal of Mineralogy, 33(5), 571–589. https://doi.org/10.5194/ejm-33-571-2021
  • Herein, Mátyás Herein, Mátyás Senior research fellow Senior research fellow
    Herein, Mátyás

    Herein, Mátyás

    E-mail:

    Publications:

     #geophysical_fluid_dynamics #chaos #climate_physics #atmospheric_Physics

    Career:

    Mátyás Herein holds a PhD summa cum laude from ELTE in geophysical fluid dynamics, where he investigated the geometry of thermal mantle convection and its relation to phase transitions. His early research bridged theoretical physics, chaos theory, and fluid dynamics, later focusing on the climate system via an ensemble-based-theoretic framework based on snapshot attractor theory. As a visiting researcher at the University of Hamburg, he co-led the first study of parallel climate statistics in El Niño (ENSO). His work centers on the theory of parallel climate realizations, which he co-developed, and its application to understanding climate variability. In geomagnetism, he studies dynamo theory, and in atmospheric electricity research, he explores the links between lightning and climate change.

    Research Projects and Grants:

    • Venus Radar Topography and Atmospheric Circulation (VERATAC), ESA PRODEX grant — participant — 2024-2027
    • Bolyai János Research Scholarship — 2020
    • OTKA FK-135115 — Principal Investigator — 2020-2023
    • OTKA K-125171 — Researcher — 2017-2023
    • Visiting Research Fellowship, University of Hamburg, Cluster of Excellence “Integrated Climate System Analysis and Prediction” (CliSAP). Sponsor: Prof. Valerio Lucarini
      Research topic: Decomposition of atmospheric circulation using unstable periodic orbits. — 2016-2017
    • OTKA FK-124256 — Researcher — 2017-2020
    • OTKA PD-124272 — Principal Investigator — 2017-2020
    • OTKA K-83400 — Researcher — 2011-2016

    Memberships / Professional Communities:

    • Public Body of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences (MTA), Section of  Earth Sciences, Geophysical Scientific Committee — since 2014

    Awards/Recognition:

    • XXXIX. Young Specialists’ Forum, Theoretical Category, First Prize (awarded by the Hungarian Geophysical Association and the Hungarian Geological Society; recognized achievement: 1st place) — 2008
    • XXXIX. Young Specialists’ Forum, Audience Award (awarded by the Hungarian Geophysical Association and the Hungarian Geological Society; recognized achievement: audience award) — 2008
    • Scholarship Award, William B. & Elisabeth Behr Agocs Geophysical Research Fund (awarded by the William B. & Elisabeth Behr Agocs Geophysical Research Fund; recognized achievement: scholarship) — 2009
    • Agocs Award, William B. & Elisabeth Behr Agocs Geophysical Research Fund (USA) (awarded by the William B. & Elisabeth Behr Agocs Geophysical Research Fund; recognized achievement: one-time scholarship for PhD dissertation) — 2014
    • Bolyai Research Scholarship (awarded by the Hungarian Academy of Sciences) — 2020

    Education:

    • PhD (summa cum laude), Earth Sciences, Geophysics Program, Doctoral School of Earth Sciences, Eötvös Loránd University (ELTE) — 2014
    • Certified Geophysicist, Eötvös Loránd University (ELTE) — 2007

    Other Professional Activities:

    Teaching:

    • Electromagnetism II (for physics teacher trainees, Physics BSc, Earth Sciences students) — 2018
    • Geophysical Fluid Dynamics (MSc level) — 2010

    Supervision:

    • BSc in Physics — Mihály Márkó Cserpák — ELTE BSc thesis — 2025
    • MSc in Meteorology — Dániel Topál — ELTE MSc thesis — 2018-2019
    • National Scientific Students’ Associations Conference (OTDK):
      Bálint Kaszás — Physics (3rd prize) — 2018
      Dániel Topál — Meteorology (1st prize) — 2018
      Tamás Bozóki — Geophysics (1st prize) — 2013
      Brigitta Szabó — Physics (4th prize) — 2011
    • BSc thesis — Brigitta Szabó — Physics — 2009-2010
  • Horváth, András Horváth, András
  • Kalmár, Dániel Kalmár, Dániel Seismology research unit leader Seismology research unit leader +36 1-248-2300
    Kalmár, Dániel

    Kalmár, Dániel

    Phone : +36 1-248-2300
    E-mail:

    Publications:

    #seismology #earthquakes #structural_research

    Career:

    Dr. Dániel Kalmár completed his higher education at Eötvös Loránd University, where in 2021 he defended his PhD dissertation summa cum laude, which investigated the crustal model of the Pannonian Basin region using the receiver function method. He previously earned an MSc in geophysics and a BSc in Earth sciences, both with distinction. He began his scientific career at the Kövesligethy Radó Seismological Observatory, where he has since been actively participating in domestic and international research projects. He currently serves as research unit leader of the Kövesligethy Radó Seismological Observatory at the HUN-REN Institute of Earth Physics and Space Science. His research focuses on investigating the structure of the crust and lithosphere, with particular attention to the Pannonian Basin and the Central and Eastern European regions. His primary methodological tool is receiver function analysis, complemented by regional geodynamic interpretations. He conducts his postdoctoral research within the NKFIH-funded PD OTKA framework, as an active member of the AdriaArray and AlpArray international projects. He is a member of the ESC and IASPEI international organisations, also serving as the Hungarian delegate. He is furthermore a member of several professional working groups, including the AdriaArray receiver function working group. His aim is to contribute to a better understanding of the tectonic evolution and deep structure of the Central and Eastern European region through the application of seismological methods.

    Research projects and grants:

    • Member of the BAVOLPA (Origin of Basalt Volcanism from Magma Generation to Eruption – Integrated Research in the Pannonian Basin) research group at the Department of Petrology and Geochemistry, Eötvös Loránd University (NKFI K152618). — participant — 2026-present
    • Leader of Working Group 3 of the Research Grant Hungary project (PI: Cloetingh Sierd Auke), on the topic of Multiscale modeling and monitoring of Earth system dynamics and their impact on geoenergy, geohazards, and climate, HUN-REN Institute of Earth Physics and Space Science (RGH_L_24-151351). — working group leader — 2025-present
    • PI of own PD OTKA: The Lithospheric and upper mantle structure of the Alpine-Carpathian-Pannonian region: receiver function analysis of seismological data and geodynamic interpretation, Kövesligethy Radó Seismological Observatory, Institute of Earth Physics and Space Science, ELKH. (NKFI PD142953) — PI — 2022-present
    • Member of the MTA EK Lendület Pannon LitH2Oscope research group ("Pargasosphere: or the new role of 'water' in the dynamics of the lithosphere-asthenosphere system as seen in the Pannonian Basin?!"), Kövesligethy Radó Seismological Observatory, Institute of Earth Physics and Space Science, ELKH. (LP2018-5/2018) — participant — 2022
    • Member of the NKP project ("Creating and analysing seismotectonics hazard map of Hungary"), Kövesligethy Radó Seismological Observatory, Institute of Earth Physics and Space Science, ELKH. (2018-1.2.1-NKP-2018-00007) — participant — 2019-2022
    • Member of the Infrasound research group, Institute of Geology and Geochemistry, Research Centre for Astronomy and Earth Sciences, ELKH. (NKFI K128152) — participant — 2018-2023
    • Member of the Hungarian AlpArray research group, Kövesligethy Radó Seismological Observatory, Institute of Earth Physics and Space Science, ELKH. (NKFI K124241 and K141860) — participant — 2017-2022

    Memberships / Professional communities:

    • Member of the AdriaArray Receiver Function Working Group, Dubrovnik, Croatia — member — 2023-present
    • Hungarian delegate to the European Seismological Commission (ESC) — delegate — 2023-present
    • Hungarian delegate to the International Association of Seismology and Physics of the Earth's Interior (IASPEI). One of 8 organisations comprising the Associations of the International Union of Geodesy and Geophysics (IUGG). — delegate — 2023-present
    • Vice-president of the SEG (Society of Exploration Geophysicists) affiliated Eötvös Student Chapter, Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest, Hungary — vice-president — 2018-2019
    • Member of the AlpArray Receiver Function Working Group, Lausanne, Switzerland — member — 2017-2023

    Awards / Recognition:

    • ORFEUS Community Project Support Grant, Zurich, Switzerland — 2026
    • Academic Youth Award, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Hungary — 2026
    • European Geosciences Union (EGU), Young Scientist Travel Support, Vienna, Austria — 2025
    • Article selected among the 10 most cited publications of 2023 in Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems (Wiley, published by the American Geophysical Union): Lithospheric Structure of the Circum-Pannonian Region Imaged by S-To-P Receiver Functions — 2025
    • VEAB Outstanding Young Researcher, Hungarian Academy of Sciences Veszprém Regional Committee — 2024
    • Szádeczky-Kardoss Elemér Prize, Hungarian Academy of Sciences Section of Earth Sciences — 2024
    • Hungarian Academy of Sciences Youth International Conference Scientific Grant (INKP_2024-51), participation in the 39th General Assembly of the European Seismological Commission — 2024
    • 3-year postdoctoral research grant (PD142953: Lithospheric and upper mantle structure of the Alpine-Carpathian-Pannonian region: receiver function analysis of seismological data and geodynamic interpretation) NKFI, Hungary — 2022-2025
    • Agocs Prize, William B. & Elizabeth Behr Agocs Geophysical Research Fund 2022. Outstanding doctoral work — 2022
    • Best poster presentation award at the 3ECEES conference (The Third European Conference on Earthquake Engineering and Seismology), Bucharest, Romania — 2022
    • New National Excellence Programme (ÚNKP-20-3), Ministry of Innovation and Technology, additional research fellowship — 2020-2021
    • 27th IUGG General Assembly: Registration fee support, Montreal, Canada — 2019
    • European Geosciences Union (EGU) Roland Schlich Travel Support, Young Scientist Travel Support, Vienna, Austria — 2019
    • SEG travel support (flight, accommodation, meals, registration fee, travel insurance). Participation in the 2018 SEG/Chevron Student Leadership Symposium (SLS) and the SEG International Exposition and 88th Annual Meeting, Anaheim, California, USA — 2018
    • European Seismological Commission (ESC) support (accommodation, meals, registration fee). Participation in the Peter Bormann young seismologists training and the 36th General Assembly of the European Seismological Commission, Malta, Valletta — 2018
    • Agocs Prize, William B. & Elizabeth Behr Agocs Geophysical Research Fund 2017. Outstanding scientific work — 2017

    Education:

    • Eötvös Loránd University, Doctoral School of Earth Sciences, PhD student — summa cum laude — 2017-2021
    • Eötvös Loránd University, MSc in Geophysics — 2015-2017
    • Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest (Hungary), BSc in Earth Sciences — 2012-2015
  • Kis, Árpád Kis, Árpád Space Research - Space Technology research unit leader Space Research - Space Technology research unit leader +36 99-508-384
    Kis, Árpád

    Kis, Árpád

    Phone : +36 99-508-384
    E-mail:

    Publications:

    #space_weather #geophysics #near-Earth_space_physics

    Career:

    He graduated from the geophysics (MSc) programme at the Faculty of Natural Sciences of Eötvös Loránd University in 2001. From 2001, he was a PhD student at the Max-Planck-Institut für extraterrestrische Physik in Germany. In 2005, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München awarded him a PhD degree for his research work. Since 2006, he has been a researcher at the institute in Sopron.

    Education:

    • PhD – Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität – 2005
    • MSc in Geophysics – ELTE, Faculty of Natural Sciences – 2001

    Recent / Featured Publications:

    • Zoltán Vörös, Owen Wyn Roberts, Yasuhito Narita, Emiliya Yordanova, Rumi Nakamura, Adriana Settino, Daniel Schmid, Martin Volwerk, Cyril L Simon Wedlund, Ali Varsani, Luca Sorriso-Valvo, Philippe André Bourdin, Árpád Kis: Turbulent dynamo in the terrestrial magnetosheath. 2026/2/18. Nature Communications
    • Zoltán Vörös, Owen W Roberts, Emiliya Yordanova, Luca Sorriso-Valvo, Rumi Nakamura, Yasuhito Narita, Daniel Schmid, Ferdinand Plaschke, Árpád Kis: How to improve our understanding of solar wind-magnetosphere interactions on the basis of the statistical evaluation of the energy budget in the magnetosheath? 2023/5/18. Frontiers in Astronomy and Space Sciences, vol. 10.
    • Hui Zhang, Qiugang Zong, Hyunju Connor, Peter Delamere, Gábor Facskó, Desheng Han, Hiroshi Hasegawa, Esa Kallio, Árpád Kis, Guan Le, Bertrand Lembège, Yu Lin, Terry Liu, Kjellmar Oksavik, Nojan Omidi, Antonius Otto, Jie Ren, Quanqi Shi, David Sibeck, Shutao Yao: Dayside Transient Phenomena and Their Impact on the Magnetosphere and Ionosphere. 2022/8. Space Science Reviews, 218.
    • Árpád Kis: Space weather phenomena and their effects on human activities. Haditechnika, vol. 57.
  • Kovács, István János Kovács, István János director general director general +36 1-248-2317
    Kovács, István János

    Kovács, István János

    Phone : +36 1-248-2317
    E-mail:

    Publications:

    CV

    #Lithosphere_hydration #Carpathian–Pannonian_geodynamics #Magnetotelluric_deep_sounding

    Career:

    Dr. István János Kovács is a geologist and Director General of the HUN-REN Institute of Earth Physics and Space Science. His research focuses on the concentration, incorporation mechanisms, and physical role of trace amounts of "water" in minerals. Even in such small quantities, water plays a fundamental role in the operation of global plate tectonics. The Carpathian–Pannonian region provides an excellent natural laboratory for studying these processes. He also has extensive experience in the geological interpretation of deep geophysical data — particularly magnetotelluric (MT) and seismological measurements — in the Carpathian–Pannonian region. In addition, he serves as the Hungarian coordinator of the international Topo-Transylvania collaboration investigating the geodynamics of the Carpathian Bend area, one of the most seismically active regions in Europe. He is the author of more than 150 publications in international journals with impact factors, which have received more than 2,500 independent citations; his h-index exceeds 30. He has served on the editorial boards of several prestigious international journals, including American Mineralogist, Central European Geology, European Journal of Mineralogy, and Acta Geodaetica et Geophysica. He was an elected member of the Geochemical, Mineralogical and Petrological Committee of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, and also served as chair of the Committee's Petrological Subcommittee. He has also served as President of the Hungarian National Committee of the International Lithosphere Program. He has supervised or co-supervised five PhD students, as well as numerous MSc and BSc students. His scientific work has been recognised with numerous national and international awards. He received the Outstanding Young Scientist Award of the Geochemistry, Mineralogy, Petrology and Volcanology Division of the European Geosciences Union (2011), and the Research Excellence Medal of the European Mineralogical Union (2015). His domestic awards include the Junior Prima Prize in the Hungarian Science category (2011), the Bolyai Plaque (2017), and the Vendl Mária Memorial Medal of the Hungarian Geological Society (2018). In 2025, he was elected Honorary Citizen of Szihalom. He is married and the father of two children: Emese (born 2012) and István Kovács Jr. (born 2014).

    Research projects and Grants:

    In summary 1 400 904 kHUF/3 502 kEUR retrieved from different funding resources
    • National Research, Development and Innovation Office, (RHG_L 151351), ‘Multi-scale modelling and monitoring of Earth System Dynamics and its impact on geoenergy, geo-hazards and climate.’, 2025-2029, (1,000,000 kHUF), Co-PI
    • National Research, Development and Innovation Office, (MEC_SZ 149113), ‘TOPOEUROPE’, 2024, (9,104 kHUF), PI
    • Hungarian Academy of Sciences Visiting Researcher Program, invitation of Prof. Sierd Cloetingh, 2023, (10,000 kHUF), PI
    • ELKH Infrastructure Grant SA-47/2021, ‘Topo-Transylvania’, 2021-2023, (40,000 kHUF), accepted, PI
    • Hungarian Academy of Sciences Visiting Researcher Program, invitation of Prof. Sierd Cloetingh, 2019-2020, (6,000 kHUF), PI
    • National Research, Development and Innovation Office, (NN141956), ‘TopoTransylvania’, 2018-2024, (41,500 kHUF), PI
    • Hungarian Academy of Sciences Momentum program, 2018-2024, 'Pargasosphere: or the new role of 'water' in the dynamics of the lithosphere-asthenosphere system based on the Pannonian basin?!', (190,000 kHUF), PI
    • Bolyai Scholarship of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, ‘Water distribution in the lithosphere of the Carpathian-Pannon region’, 2017-2018, (~3,200 kHUF), PI
    • National Research, Development and Innovation Office (K128122), ‘Water in the fire: what does the water content and geochemistry of volcanic rocks and their phenocrysts reveal?’, 2016-2021, (27,000 kHUF), PI
    • Bolyai Scholarship of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, ‘Application of Infrared Spectrometry in Earth and Environmental Sciences’, 2013-2016, (10,000 kHUF), PI
    • National Research, Development and Innovation Office (PD101683), ‘Quantitative infrared spectrometry and isotope geochemical investigation of "water" built into the structure of minerals’, 2011-2014, (18,100 kHUF), PI
    • Marie Curie International Reintegration Grant (NAMSs-230937) ‘Water and its bearing on geophysical properties’; 2009-2013, (100 kEUR), PI
    • Mervyn and Katalin Paterson grant (ANU RSES, Australia), ‘Hydrogen measurements by SIMS in nominally anhydrous minerals’, 2007, (1,500 EUR), PI

    Memberships/ Proffessional communities:

    • Director General of HUN-REN Institute of Earth Physics and Space Science (Sopron) – 2024–
    • Head of the Earth Physics Department, HUN-REN Institute of Earth Physics and Space Science – 2021–2024
    • Director of MTA CSFK Geodetic and Geophysical Institute – 2019–2020
    • Head of MTA CSFK Lendület Pannon LitH2Oscope Research Group (more than 10 members) – 2018–2024
    • Head of Department, Geological and Geophysical Institute of Hungary (11 employees) – 2012–2013
    • Supervisor of BSc, MSc and PhD students at Eötvös Loránd University – 2004–

    Awards/Recognition:

    • Honorary Citizen of Szihalom – 2025
    • Vendl Mária Research Memorial Medal, Hungarian Geological Society – 2018
    • Bolyai János Postdoctoral Scholarship – 2017–2018
    • Bolyai Plaque, Hungarian Academy of Sciences – 2017
    • Research Excellence Medal, European Mineralogical Union – 2015
    • Bolyai János Postdoctoral Scholarship – 2013–2016
    • Outstanding Young Scientist Award, Geochemistry, Mineralogy, Petrology and Volcanology Division, European Geosciences Union – 2011
    • Junior Prima Prize – 2011
    • Szádeczky-Kardoss Elemér Award, Hungarian Academy of Sciences – 2008
    • Outstanding Young Non-Russian Scientist Award, Russian Mineralogical Society – 2007
    • Szádeczky-Kardoss Elemér Award, Hungarian Academy of Sciences – 2006
    • Semsey Andor Prize, Hungarian Geological Society (for best publication by young researchers, shared) – 2005
    • Pro Scientia Gold Medal, National Scientific Student Conference – 2003
    • Portus Prize, Eötvös Collegium – 2003
    • Outstanding Student of the Faculty, Eötvös Loránd University – 2003
    • Scholarship of the Republic of Hungary – 2002–2003
    • Outstanding Student of the Faculty, Eötvös Loránd University – 2002
    • Scholarship of the Republic of Hungary – 2001–2002
    • Outstanding Student of the Faculty, Eötvös Loránd University – 2001

    Education:

    • PhD in Earth Sciences, Australian National University, Canberra (Australia) – 2005–2008
    • MSc in Geology, Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest (Hungary) – 1998–2003
  • Kövér, Szilvia Kövér, Szilvia
  • Lange, Thomas Pieter Lange, Thomas Pieter Research fellow Research fellow +3699 508 379
    Lange, Thomas Pieter

    Lange, Thomas Pieter

    Phone : +3699 508 379
    E-mail:
    Office 0.13

    Publications:

    #nanogeochemistry #fluid #earth_mantle #geochemistry #tectonics

    Career:

    Thomas Lange obtained his BSc degree in Earth Sciences in 2016 and his MSc degree in Geology in 2018 at Eötvös Loránd University, under the supervision of Tamás Sági and Sándor Józsa. In 2018, he began his PhD studies at the Environmental Sciences Doctoral School of Eötvös Loránd University, under the supervision of Csaba Szabó and István Kovács. The aim of the PhD was to explore the deep–surface connection of the South-Eastern Carpathians region using mantle xenoliths and surface gases. During his PhD studies, Thomas Lange participated in numerous domestic and international conferences, and published 3 first-author and 5 co-authored manuscripts. In 2023, he joined the HUN-REN Institute of Earth Physics and Space Science. Thomas Lange obtained his PhD degree with Summa cum Laude distinction in 2025. He currently studies nanoscale solid–fluid interactions occurring under high temperature and pressure conditions, and his interests are directed towards this area within the fields of geology, geochemistry, and materials science.

    Research Projects and Grants:

    • New National Excellence Programme (ÚNKP) – project leader – 2018–2019
    • Topo-Transylvania OTKA – member – 2018–2024
    • Pannonian LitH2Oscope Lendület grant – member – 2018–2024
    • New National Excellence Programme (ÚNKP) – project leader – 2021–2022
    • FluidsByDepth Lendület grant – member – 2024–

    Memberships / Professional Communities:

    • Hungarian Geological Society – member – 2015–
    • Hungarian Geological Society Youth Committee – member – 2015–
    • ELUSCSEG – member – 2015–2018
    • International Association of Geochemistry – member – 2018–2021
    • European Association of Geochemistry – member – 2026–
    • International Association of Sedimentologists – member – 2017–2018
    • European Geosciences Union – member – 2024–
    • International Lithosphere Program – member – 2018–
    • MTA Geochemistry–Mineralogy–Petrology Subcommittee – member – 2021–

    Awards / Recognition:

    • Outstanding Student of the Faculty – 2017
    • 1st place at the 49th Conference of Young Earth Scientists – 2018
    • 3rd place at the 48th Conference of Young Earth Scientists – 2017
    • 3rd place at the 9th Petrology and Geochemistry Conference
    • 1st place at the 13th Petrology and Geochemistry Conference
    • Hungarian Geological Society Special Prize at the 48th Conference of Young Earth Scientists – 2018
    • EGU conference participation award – 2020
    • EMC conference participation award (×3) – 2021
    • ELTE travel grant for conference and short course participation (×5)
    • National Strategy Research Institute Scientific Achievement Grant – Special Prize

    Education:

    • Doctoral degree – Eötvös Loránd University, Faculty of Natural Sciences – 2026
    • MSc in Geology – Eötvös Loránd University – 2018
    • BSc in Earth Sciences – Eötvös Loránd University – 2016

    Recent / Featured Publications:

      • Lange T. P., Szabó Cs., Liptai N., Patkó L., Gelencsér O., Aradi L. E., Kovács I. J. (2019): Rheology study on the earth's mantle: Application of quantitative Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy on an upper mantle xenolith from the Perşani Mountains. Földtani Közlöny, p. 233–254. https://doi.org/10.23928/foldt.kozl.2019.149.3.233
      • Lange, T. P., Pálos, Z., Pósfai, M., Berkesi, M., Pekker, P., Szabó, Á., Szabó, Cs., & Kovács, I. J. (2023). Nanoscale hydrous silicate melt inclusions at the clinopyroxene-amphibole interface in a mantle xenolith from the Perșani Mountains Volcanic Field. Lithos, 454, 107210. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.lithos.2023.107210
      • Lange, T. P., Palcsu, L., Szakács, A., Kővágó, Á., Gelencsér, O., Gál, Á., Gyila, S., M. Tóth, T., Matenco, L., Krézsek, Cs., Lenkey, L., Szabó, Cs., & Kovács, I. J. (2023). The link between lithospheric scale deformations and deep fluid emanations: Inferences from the Southeastern Carpathians, Romania. Evolving Earth, 1, 100013. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.eve.2023.100013
      • Liptai, N., Lange, T. P., Patkó, L., Aradi, L. E., Berkesi, M., Tollan, P. M., Padrón-Navarta, J. A., Hermann, J., Gergely, Sz., Szabó, Cs., & Kovács, I. J. (2024). Formation of amphibole lamellae in mantle pyroxene by fluid-mediated metasomatism: A focal plane array FTIR study from the Carpathian-Pannonian region. American Mineralogist, 109(1), 87–102. https://doi.org/10.2138/am-2022-8662
      • Lange, T. P., Pósfai, M., Berkesi, M., Pekker, P., Pálos, Z., Molnár, G., Szabó, Cs., & Kovács, I. J. (2026). Nanoscale solid-fluid interaction and amphibole formation in the lithospheric mantle. Scientific Reports. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-026-40179-1
  • Lemperger, István Lemperger, István Geomagnetism-Geoelectricity research group leader,
    Head of the Zero Magnetic Field Laboratory         		Geomagnetism-Geoelectricity research group leader,
    Head of the Zero Magnetic Field Laboratory    		 +3630 850 12 13
    Lemperger, István

    Lemperger, István

    Phone : +3630 850 12 13
    E-mail:

    Publications:

    #magnetic_zero_field_laboratory #ZBL #geomagnetism #GIC #Geomagnetically_Induced_Current

    Career:

    Dr. István Lemperger is a geophysicist, senior research fellow at the HUN-REN Institute of Earth Physics and Space Science, and head of the Geomagnetism Research Unit. His research focuses on the investigation of geomagnetic and surface electromagnetic field processes, with particular attention to the analysis of temporal variations of the surface electromagnetic impedance tensor of ionospheric–magnetospheric origin, and to the modelling of magnetic compensating/shielding systems based on surface geomagnetic observations. He is the head of the Magnetic Zero-Field Laboratory established at the Széchenyi István Geophysical Observatory, which provides a unique research infrastructure for interdisciplinary investigations. He has participated in and led several domestic and international research projects (OTKA, ESA, EU FP7). He gained international research experience at the CETP (later LATMOS) research institute in Saint-Maur-des-Fossés, France, and at the CNES research centre in Orléans, including research related to the preparatory work for the Netlander Mars mission. He is involved in teaching at BSc, MSc, and PhD levels in the fields of geomagnetism and geophysical research methods. In addition to his scientific work, he actively participates in the activities of international professional organisations and conferences.

    Research Projects and Grants:

    • Magnetic Zero-Field Laboratory (ZBL) – laboratory head – 2023–
    • Magnetic Zero-Field Laboratory (ZBL), GINOP-2.3.3-15-2016-00016 – scientific coordinator – 2016–
    • Geophysical noise investigation at the planned domestic site of the Einstein Telescope, OTKA K-124508; Geophysical noise investigation of the planned Hungarian site of the third-generation gravitational wave detector – partner institution project leader – 2017–2021
    • ESA grant – instrument development; HUN-REN FI – BME collaboration: development of a Langmuir probe for satellite plasma measurements – 2022–
    • ESA grant – method development; reconstruction of telluric transfer functions – 2025–
    • NN OTKA – development of a domestic GIC model; modelling of geomagnetically induced currents – 2026–
    • EURISGIC – EU FP7 Space Research; participation in the European risk assessment of geomagnetically induced currents – 2010–2014

    Memberships / Professional Communities:

    • American Geophysical Union (AGU) – member – 2004–
    • European Geosciences Union (EGU) – member – 2004–
    • Association of Hungarian Geophysicists (MGE) – member – 2003–

    Awards / Recognition:

    • Ulrich Schmucker Memorial Trust Scholarship – 2010
    • MTA Bolyai János Research Scholarship – 2015

    Education:

    • PhD – Geoelectromagnetics – University of Sopron – 2012
    • MSc in Geophysics – Eötvös Loránd University – 2003

    Recent / Featured Publications:

    • Kuslits, L., Horváth, A., Wesztergom, V., Beggan, C., Rubóczki, T., Prácser, E., Czirok, L., Bozsó, I., & Lemperger, I. An alternate representation of the geomagnetic core field obtained using machine learning. Earth, Planets and Space, 76(1), 77. (2024). https://doi.org/10.1186/s40623-024-02024-5
    • Bor, J., Andre, K. S., Bozoki, T., Mlynarczyk, J., Steinbach, P., Novak, A., & Lemperger, I. Estimating the Attenuation of ELF-Band Radio Waves in the Earth's Crust by Q-Bursts. IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation, 70(8), 6973–6982. (2022). https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/9743663
    • Kis, A., Matsukiyo, S., Otsuka, F., Hada, T., Lemperger, I., Dandouras, I., Barta, V., & Facsko, G. Effect of Upstream ULF Waves on the Energetic Ion Diffusion at the Earth's Foreshock. II. Observations. Astrophysical Journal, 863(2), 136. (2018). https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4357/aad08c
  • Muraközy, Judit Muraközy, Judit Senior research fellow Senior research fellow +3652-509-200
    Muraközy, Judit

    Muraközy, Judit

    Phone : +3652-509-200
    E-mail:

    Publications:

    http://fenyi.solarobs.epss.hu/~murakozyj/murakozy.html

    #solar_physics #solar_magnetic_fields #sunspot_cycles #space_weather

    Career:

    Judit Muraközy graduated as a physicist from the University of Debrecen in 2002. She began her professional career in 2004 as a research assistant at the former Debrecen Heliophysical Observatory. She defended her doctoral dissertation in 2014 in the Particle Physics and Astronomy programme of the Doctoral School of Physics at Eötvös Loránd University. Since obtaining her degree, she has been a co-investigator on several international projects and was the principal investigator of an NKFIH OTKA FK project. In addition, she has received several domestic and international travel grants to attend conferences abroad. She regularly serves as a reviewer for various international scientific journals and organisations, has participated in judging panels at multiple National Scientific Student Conferences (OTDK), and has taken part in doctoral procedures at ELTE. She is a member and representative of international scientific organisations and teaches astronomy at the University of Debrecen. She is a member of the editorial board of the international scientific journal Scientific Data. She joined the Institute of Earth Physics and Space Science in 2021, where she is currently a senior research fellow. Her research focuses on the properties of solar cycles and the evolution of solar active regions.

    Research Projects and Grants:

    • SCOSTEP/COURSE database grant – principal investigator – 2026
    • OTKA FK141895 – principal investigator – 2018–2024
    • ESA Contract No. 4000121800/17/D/MRP – co-investigator – 2017–2020
    • eHEROES FP7, Grant agreement No. 284461 – co-investigator – 2012–2015
    • SOTERIA FP7, Grant agreement No. 218816 – co-investigator – 2008–2011

    Memberships / Professional Communities:

    • European Astronomical Society (EAS) – full member – 2022–
    • Scientific Data (Nature) – editorial board member – 2020–
    • International Space Weather Initiative – Hungarian Representative – 2016–
    • International Astronomical Union – individual member – 2015–
    • SCOSTEP – Discipline representative – 2014–2023
    • Hungarian Academy of Sciences – public body member – 2014–

    Education:

    • PhD – Eötvös Loránd University – 2014
    • MSc in Physics – University of Debrecen – 2002
     
  • Németh, Károly Németh, Károly
  • Papp, Gábor Papp, Gábor Geodesy research unit leader Geodesy research unit leader +36 99-508-364
    Papp, Gábor

    Papp, Gábor

    Phone : +36 99-508-364
    E-mail:

    Publications:

    #gravimetry #observatory_measurements #geodesy #geodynamics

    Career:

    Gábor Papp graduated as a surveying engineer from the Budapest University of Technology in 1987 with distinction. Already as a student, he excelled in scientific student research activities, winning first prize twice (BME Faculty of Civil Engineering Surveying Section; National Scientific Students’ Associations Conference). After obtaining his degree, he received a scholarship at the Geodetic and Geophysical Research Institute of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences in Sopron (today HUN-REN FI), where he has worked continuously ever since. His main research areas include local geoid determination, investigation of the gravity field, gravimetry, as well as observations of crustal deformations and rock tilts. In 1997, he obtained the degree of Candidate of Technical Sciences (PhD equivalent), and in 1998 he was awarded the János Bolyai Research Scholarship of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences. He has participated in numerous national (OTKA) and international research programs and has conducted joint research projects with European institutions in Finland, Denmark, Egypt, and Germany. He has also been active in teaching, leading the External Department of Theoretical Geodesy at the University of West Hungary and mentoring PhD students. In addition, he is co-founder and, since 2013, Editor-in-Chief of the scientific journal Geomatikai Közlemények. He currently serves as Head of the Geodesy Research Unit at the HUN-REN Institute of Earth Physics and Space Science. Over the past 39 years, he has regularly participated in geodetic and gravimetric measurements and investigations for geodynamic purposes at the Paks Nuclear Power Plant, along the high banks of Dunaföldvár and Dunaszekcső, and in the Mecsek region. In 2007 and 2008, in connection with the re-measurement of the National Unified Height Control Network, he performed gravimetric determinations at more than 250 first-order leveling benchmarks in the KMO-1 and KMO-2 blocks.

    Research Projects and Grants:

    • National Scientific Research Fund (OTKA 5-204) — participant — from 1989
    • OTKA T015960 — participant — from 1989
    • Basic Research Foundation Program (AKP 98-68) — participant — from 1989
    • OTKA F014284 (Young Researchers) — principal investigator — 1994
    • OTKA W014998 (Instrumentation) — principal investigator — 1995
    • OTKA T025318 — principal investigator — 1998
    • OTKA M041562 — principal investigator — 2002
    • OTKA T043413 — principal investigator — 2003
    • OTKA K101603 — principal investigator — 2011
    • OTKA K141969 — principal investigator — 2018
    • Eötvös Loránd Research Network Infrastructure Development Grant (ELKH-INFRA) — principal investigator — 2021

    Memberships / Professional Communities:

    • Hungarian Academy of Sciences (MTA), Scientific Committee on Geodesy and Geoinformatics — voting member — since 1999
    • MTA Scientific Committee on Geodesy and Geoinformatics — secretary — for six years (after 1999)
    • Geomatikai Közlemények journal — co-founder and Editor-in-Chief — since 2013
    • International Association of Geodesy (IAG), SSG 3.177 Special Study Group — member — 1991–2011
    • IAG SG 2.2 Special Study Group — member — 1991–2011
    • IAG Geoid Commission — national representative — 1995–1999

    Honors and Awards:

    • BME Faculty of Civil Engineering Surveying Section TDK Conference — First Prize — 1986
    • National Scientific Students’ Associations Conference — First Prize — 1987
    • Elemér Szádeczky-Kardoss Award (four times) — 1988–2001
    • Academy Youth Prize — 1992
    • János Bolyai Research Scholarship, Hungarian Academy of Sciences — 1998

    Education:

    • Candidate of Technical Sciences — 1997
    • Certified Surveying Engineer — Budapest University of Technology (BME) — 1987
  • Patkó, Levente Patkó, Levente Research fellow Research fellow
    Patkó, Levente

    Patkó, Levente

    E-mail:

    Publications:

    #petrology #geochemistry #lithosphere #mantle_xenolith

    Career:

    During his studies at Eötvös Loránd University, Levente Patkó joined the Lithosphere Fluid Research Lab (LRG) led by Csaba Szabó at the end of his undergraduate studies, where he completed both his master's thesis and doctoral research. During his university studies, he spent at least one month at several foreign institutions (University of Vienna [Vienna, Austria], University of Wrocław [Wrocław, Poland], Comenius University [Bratislava, Slovakia], Andalusian Institute of Earth Sciences [Armilla, Spain], Leibniz University [Hanover, Germany]). As a Humboldt Fellow, he spent two years (2025–2026) as a postdoctoral researcher at Goethe University (Frankfurt am Main, Germany). His research focuses on the evolution of the lithospheric mantle, with particular emphasis on its geochemical and geophysical aspects. He also actively investigates surface degassing originating from the deep lithosphere.

    Research Projects and Grants:

    • "Investigation of the relationship between upper mantle melts and surface degassing in the Nógrád-Gemer Volcanic Field" OTKA project (OTKA ID: PD 145853) – principal investigator – 2024-
    • "Comparative investigation of rift-related silicate-carbonatite melt and fluid systems" OTKA project (principal investigator: Dr. Tibor Guzmics, OTKA ID: K 142855) – co-investigator – 2023-
    • "Topotransylvania" OTKA project (principal investigator: Dr. István János Kovács, OTKA ID: NN 141956) – co-investigator – 2023-2024
    • Pannonian LitH2Oscope MTA Lendület Research Group (principal investigator: Dr. István János Kovács, ID: LP-2018/5) – co-investigator – 2018-2024

    Memberships / Professional Communities:

    • International Lithosphere Program Hungarian National Committee (ILP-HNC) – elected secretary – 2024-
    • Hungarian Academy of Sciences – public body member – 2021-
    • European Association of Geochemistry (EAG) – member – 2013-
    • Hungarian Geological Society (MFT) – member – 2011-

    Awards / Recognition:

    • Elemér Szádeczky-Kardoss Award – 2024
    • Academy Youth Award – 2022
    • Outstanding Student of the Faculty, Eötvös Loránd University, Faculty of Science – 2014
    • János Böckh Special Prize at the 45th Young Professionals' Conference (ISZA) – 2014
    • Outstanding Student of the Faculty, Eötvös Loránd University, Faculty of Science – 2013
    • National Scientific Student Conference (OTDK), 1st place (Petrology and Volcanology section) – 2013
    • National Scientific Student Conference (OTDK), Distinguished Special Prize (Mineralogy and Geochemistry section) – 2013

    Education:

    • Ph.D. in Earth Sciences – Eötvös Loránd University – 2020
    • M.Sc. in Geology – Eötvös Loránd University – 2014

    Recent / Selected publications:

    • Patkó, L., Kővágó, Á., Lange, T. P., Szakács, A., Huraiová, M., Berkesi, M., Aradi, L. E., Gergely, Sz., Szabó, Á., Németh, K., Szabó, Cs., & Kovács, I. J. (2026). Hydrous upper mantle facilitated alkali basalt genesis in the Southeastern Carpathians, Romania. Journal of Volcanology and Geothermal Research, 472, 108540. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jvolgeores.2026.108540
    • Patkó, L., Liptai, N., Aradi, L. E., Török, K., Kovács, Z., Kővágó, Á., Gergely, Sz., Kovács, I. J., Szabó, Cs., & Berkesi, M. (2024). Fossil metasomatized and newly-accreted fertile lithospheric mantle volumes beneath the Bakony-Balaton Highland Volcanic Field (central Carpathian-Pannonian region). Lithos, 482-483, 107701.    https://doi.org/10.1016/j.lithos.2024.107701
    • Patkó, L., Novák, A., Klébesz, R., Liptai, N., Lange, T. P., Molnár, G., Csontos, L., Wesztergom, V., Kovács, I. J. & Szabó, Cs. (2021). Effect of metasomatism on the electrical resistivity of the lithospheric mantle – An integrated research using magnetotelluric sounding and xenoliths beneath the Nógrád-Gömör Volcanic Field. Global and Planetary Change, 197, 103389.    https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gloplacha.2020.103389
    • Patkó, L., Liptai, N., Aradi, L. E., Klébesz, R., Sendula, E., Bodnar, R. J., Kovács, I. J., Hidas, K., Cesare, B., Novák, A., Trásy, B. & Szabó, Cs. (2020). Metasomatism-induced wehrlite formation in the upper mantle beneath the Nógrád-Gömör Volcanic Field (Northern Pannonian Basin): evidence from xenoliths. Geoscience Frontiers, 11(3), 943-964.    https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gsf.2019.09.012
    • Patkó, L., Liptai, N., Kovács, I. J., Aradi, L. E., Xia, Q.-K., Ingrin, J., Mihály, J., O'Reilly. S. Y., Griffin, W. L., Wesztergom, V. & Szabó, Cs. (2019). Extremely low structural hydroxyl contents in upper mantle xenoliths from the Nógrád-Gömör Volcanic Field (northern Pannonian Basin): Geodynamic implications and the role of post-eruptive re-equilibration. Chemical Geology, 507, 23-41.    https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chemgeo.2018.12.017
  • Porkoláb, Kristóf Porkoláb, Kristóf Research fellow Research fellow +36 99-508-360
    Porkoláb, Kristóf

    Porkoláb, Kristóf

    Phone : +36 99-508-360
    E-mail:

    Publications:

    #platetectonics #rockdeformation #geoenergetics

    Career:

    Kristóf Porkoláb, MSc in Geology (ELTE, Budapest, 2016), PhD in Earth Sciences (Utrecht University, Tectonics Group, 2021). Kristóf’s main fields of research are plate tectonic processes, rock deformation, rock-fluid interactions, and geo-energy applications. Applied research methods include numerical modelling, field - and microscale - structural and petrological analysis, radiometric dating, and the integrated analysis of geophysical and geological datasets. Since 2021 he has been a research fellow at the HUN-REN Institute of Earth Physics and Space Science.

    Research projects and Grants:

    • János Bolyai Research Fellowship, Hungarian Academy of Sciences (Numerical modelling of the interplay between deformation, fluid flow, and mineralogical transformations, PI) – 2025–2028
    • NKFI Postdoctoral Excellence Grant (The role of dehydration reactions in triggering intermediate-depth earthquakes: development and application of advanced numerical models, PI) – 2022–2025
    • FluidsbyDepth MTA Lendület project (PI: Márta Berkesi) – participant – 2022–2027
    • "Creating and analysing the seismotectonic model of Hungary" NKFI project – participant – 2021–2022

    Memberships/Professional communities:

    • Hungarian Geological Society
    • Association of Hungarian Geophysicists
    • International Lithosphere Program
    • European Geosciences Union

    Awards/Recognition:

    • Attila Meskó Prize (best publication of 2023, Association of Hungarian Geophysicists) – 2024

    Education:

    • PhD – Universiteit Utrecht – 2021
    • MSc in Geology – ELTE – 2016
     
  • Spránitz, Tamás Spránitz, Tamás Research fellow Research fellow +36 1 248 2307
    Spránitz, Tamás

    Spránitz, Tamás

    Phone : +36 1 248 2307
    E-mail:

    #metamorphic_petrology #petrography #fluid_inclusion_studies #lithosphere #subduction_fluids #geochemistry #fluid_rock_interaction #Raman_spectroscopy #fluid_inclusion_petrography #natural_hydrogen #fluid_mineral_interaction #elastic_thermobarometry #Cabo_Ortegal_Complex #Sopron_Hills #tourmaline

    Career:

    Tamás Spránitz was born on 16 April 1992 in Budapest. He completed his schooling in Székesfehérvár and passed his school-leaving examination with distinction in 2011. From an early age, he developed an interest in geography, inorganic chemistry, and the world of minerals and geological processes. He obtained his BSc degree in Earth Sciences with a geology specialisation at ELTE in 2014, and his MSc degree in Geology with a specialisation in Mineralogy–Petrology–Geochemistry–Mineral Resources–Archaeometry in 2017. His BSc and MSc research was supervised by Dr. Sándor Józsa, during which he conducted petrological–petrographic and geochemical investigations on metamorphic rocks from the Pleistocene gravel sequence of the Danube and previously unknown metamorphic rocks of the Sopron Hills. He pursued his doctoral studies between 2017 and 2022 under the supervision of Dr. Márta Berkesi and Dr. Csaba Szabó at the Lithosphere Fluid Research Laboratory of ELTE, with a focus on fluids present in subduction environments. In 2020, he joined the NKFIH FK-OTKA project entitled "Study of subduction fluids: 3D inclusion studies" as a junior research fellow, and from October 2022 he has been working as a research fellow in the MTA–HUN-REN FI FluidsByDepth Research Group, led by Márta Berkesi. His research focuses on inclusion-based investigations of deep lithospheric fluids (e.g. mantle, lower crustal, or other metamorphic origin), with particular attention to improving our understanding of the presence and role of geologically/naturally occurring carbon dioxide and hydrogen.

    Research Projects and Grants:

    • "Distribution and properties of fluid migrations along the lithosphere: understanding fluid equilibrium and transfer in Central Pannonian Basin" – MTA–HUN-REN FI FluidsByDepth Lendület Research Group, HUN-REN Institute of Earth Physics and Space Science (PI: Márta Berkesi, LP2022-2/2022) – co-investigator – October 2022–
    • "Natural hydrogen and underground storage in rift-inversion systems (H2RISE)" – internationally funded research project by AEI and FEDER (Spain) (PI: Károly Hidas, PID2024–161600OB-I00) – co-investigator – 2026–
    • "Fluid from subducted slab: 3D inclusion study" – NKFIH OTKA grant (PI: Márta Berkesi, NKFIH_FK 132418) – co-investigator – 12/2020–05/2025

    Memberships / Professional Communities:

    • Hungarian Geological Society, Central and North Transdanubian Regional Organisation – substitute board member – 2024–
    • MTA Committee on Geochemistry, Mineralogy and Petrology – elected committee member – 2023–
    • MTA Public Body – member – 2023–
    • MTA Geochemistry and Mineralogy Committee, Petrology Subcommittee – member – 2018–
    • European Geosciences Union (EGU) – member – 2018–
    • European Association of Geochemistry (EAG) – member – 2018–
    • Hungarian Geological Society – member – 2016–

    Awards / Recognition:

    • HUN-REN Researcher Mobility Programme grant – full support for session organisation (convener) and oral presentation at EGU 2026, Vienna – 2025
    • Best Poster Presentation Award: 3rd place and Hungarian Geological Society Special Prize at the Conference of Young Earth Scientists, Nagybörzsöny – April 1
    • New National Excellence Programme doctoral candidate scholarship (ÚNKP-22-4-I-ELTE-267), project title: Application of elastic thermobarometry to the investigation of a fossil subduction zone and its fluids, supervisor: Dr. Márta Berkesi – 2022–2023
    • Special Prize in the Science Communication category at the ÚNKP II. Science Communication Competition – July 10
    • Campus Mundi short study abroad grant: "Visiting student for short study for 30 days at the Key Laboratory of Metallogeny and Mineral Resource Assessment, Institute of Mineral Resources, Chinese Academy of Geological Sciences, Beijing 100037, China" and with support from the Chinese Academy of Geological Sciences: "High-pressure and high-temperature experiments for the study of subduction fluids using a V-type hydrothermal diamond anvil cell (HDAC-V)". (Travel did not take place due to the COVID-19 pandemic) – February–March
    • Best Young Presenter Award: 1st place for a first-author oral presentation at the X. Petrology and Geochemistry Conference, Mátraháza – September 6
    • New National Excellence Programme scholarship (ELTE/14325/305 (2019)), project title: The significance of fluids in ultramafic rocks from subduction mantle wedges: inclusion studies, supervisor: Dr. Márta Berkesi – 2019–2020
    • Support from the ELTE Talent Development Council for participation in the short course "High-Pressure Experimental Techniques and Applications to the Earth's Interior", Bayreuth, Germany – February 18–22
    • Support from the European Geosciences Union and the ELTE Talent Development Council for participation in the "EGU Galileo 2018" conference (Exploring new frontiers in fluid processes in subduction zones), Leibnitz, Austria; poster title: Fluid-rock interaction in the ultramafic-mafic association of Cabo Ortegal Complex (NW-Spain), Preliminary results on CH4-H2-N2-bearing aqueous fluid inclusion in pyroxenites of the Herbeira Massif – June 24–29
    • One-year scholarship from the Székesfehérvár Development Foundation, supporting university scientific research activities – April 25
    • Kriván Pál Foundation Memorial Medal, awarded by the Hungarian Geological Society for the best geology MSc thesis of the year – March 21
    • Best Young Presenter Award: 2nd place for a first-author oral presentation at the VIII. Petrology and Geochemistry Conference, Szihalom – September 7–9
    • New National Excellence Programme scholarship (ELTE/8315/111(2016)), project title: Petrological analysis and genetic interpretation of tourmaline-rich formations of the Sopron Hills, supervisor: Dr. Sándor Józsa – 2016–2017
    • National Scientific Student Conference, Cluj-Napoca – 1st place – April 18
    • Faculty Geological Scientific Student Conference – 1st place and Audience Award – January 17

    Education:

    • PhD with summa cum laude distinction in Earth Sciences (petrology–geochemistry specialisation) – Eötvös Loránd University, Earth Sciences Doctoral School – 2023
    • MSc in Geology, specialisation in Mineralogy–Geochemistry–Mineral Resources–Archaeometry (with distinction) – Eötvös Loránd University – 2017
    • BSc in Earth Sciences, geology specialisation (with distinction) – Eötvös Loránd University – 2014
    • Secondary school leaving examination (with distinction) – Tóparti Gimnázium és Művészeti Szakközépiskola, Székesfehérvár – 2011

    Recent / Featured Publications:

    • Hencz, M., Békési, E., Patkó, L., Spránitz, T., Hidas, K., Németh, K., Kovács, I.J., Biró, T., Cloetingh, S., Szabó, Cs., Koptev, A. & Berkesi, M. (2026). Quantifying geological CO2 accumulation in the subcontinental lithospheric mantle during post-rift evolution of a sedimentary basin (Bakony-Balaton Highland Volcanic Field, Pannonian Basin, Central Europe). Global and Planetary Change. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gloplacha.2026.105377
    • Spránitz, T., Tari, G., Porkoláb, K., Vršič, A., Hujer, W., Mekonnen, E., & Berkesi, M. (2024). A preliminary study on fluid migration pathways along the Rechnitz detachment fault – a tribute to Prof. Csaba SZABÓ. Földtani Közlöny, 154(3), 277–298. https://doi.org/10.23928/foldt.kozl.2024.154.3.277
    • Spránitz, T., Szabó, C., Gilio, M., Alvaro, M., Blažeková, M., Konečný, P., Váczi, T. & Berkesi, M. (2023). Estimation of P-T entrapment conditions of a subduction fluid using elastic thermobarometry: A case study from Cabo Ortegal Complex, Spain. Lithos, 448, 107171. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.lithos.2023.107171
    • Spránitz, T., Padrón‐Navarta, J. A., Szabó, Cs., Szabó, Á., & Berkesi, M. (2022). Abiotic passive nitrogen and methane enrichment during exhumation of subducted rocks: primary multiphase fluid inclusions in high‐pressure rocks from the Cabo Ortegal Complex, NW Spain. Journal of Metamorphic Geology, 40(8), 1291–1319. https://doi.org/10.1111/jmg.12666
    • Spránitz, T., Józsa, S., Kovács, Z., Váczi, B., & Török, K. (2018). Magmatic and metamorphic evolution of tourmaline-rich rocks of the Sopron area, Eastern Alps. Journal of Geosciences, 63(2), 175–191. https://doi.org/10.3190/jgeosci.263

    Other Professional Activities and Competencies:

    Teaching:

    • From 2022 onwards: teaching the Metamorphic and Sedimentary Petrology course for BSc Earth Sciences students (geology specialisation) – ELTE Faculty of Natural Sciences, Department of Petrology and Geochemistry
    • From 2023 onwards: teaching the Metamorphic Petrogenesis course for MSc Geology students – ELTE Faculty of Natural Sciences, Department of Petrology and Geochemistry
    • February–June 2022: teaching Petrology practicals, Introduction to Petrology, and Petrography of Rock Series courses for undivided Geography Teacher, BSc Earth Sciences, and MSc Geology students at ELTE Faculty of Natural Sciences, Department of Petrology and Geochemistry
    • 2017/2018 academic year through 2022: teaching Petrology practicals for undivided Geography Teacher students at ELTE Faculty of Natural Sciences, Department of Petrology and Geochemistry (course subsequently discontinued)
    • Spring semester 2016–2017: substitute lecturer for Petrology practical courses for undivided Geography Teacher students
    • Spring semester 2013–2014: substitute lecturer for Petrology practical courses for undivided Geography Teacher, Chemistry, and Environmental Sciences BSc students

    University textbook editing:

    Languages spoken:

    • English (intermediate, type C language examination)
    • German (intermediate, type C language examination)

    Employment history:

    • October 2022–: research fellow, MTA–HUN-REN FI FluidsByDepth Lendület Research Group, HUN-REN Institute of Earth Physics and Space Science. PI: Márta Berkesi.
    • 2020–: junior research fellow, ELTE Faculty of Natural Sciences, Department of Earth and Space Sciences, NKFIH_FK 132418 project. PI: Márta Berkesi. Project title: Study of subduction fluids: 3D inclusion studies.
    • April–July 2018: geologist, Mining Support Kft., Eger. Responsibilities: development and testing of a geochemical measuring instrument (soil probe for radon measurement), planning and coordination of field measurements.

    Conference organisation and proceedings editing:

    • June 23–27, 2019: ECROFI2019 (European Current Research on Fluid and Melt Inclusions), Budapest – co-organiser; website: https://ecrofi2019.elte.hu/
    • September 6–8, 2018: IX. Petrology and Geochemistry Conference (Szentkút) – lead organiser; website: http://vandorgyules2018.elte.hu/
    • April 24–27, 2014: V. International Students Geological Conference (Budapest) – student volunteer organiser

    Thesis supervision:

    • Péter Pikó – 2024 – ELTE BSc Earth Sciences (supervisor), thesis title: Deep lithospheric structure of the central Pannonian Basin (Bakony–Balaton Highland) based on petrological and geochemical data
    • Tamás Keresztes – 2025 – ELTE MSc Geology (supervisor), thesis title: Investigation of fluid-rock interactions in sediment-derived granulites from the lower crust of the Pannonian Basin
    • Justine Myovela – 2025 – University of Pécs, Earth Sciences Doctoral School (co-supervisor), PhD dissertation submitted, title: 3D RAMAN MAPPING OF COMPLEX FLUID AND MELT INCLUSIONS FROM THE STYRIAN BASIN MANTLE XENOLITHS (WEST CARPATHIAN PANNONIAN REGION)

    Public engagement and other scientific activities:

    • January 29–30, 2026: Invited oral presentation at the 21st Winter School in Mineral Sciences; title: Determining the entrapment conditions of crystal inclusions based on elastic deformation: how does elastic thermobarometry work?
    • From 2023 onwards: reviewing of BSc, MSc, and PhD theses (ELTE, SZTE) and domestic and international publications (Journal of Metamorphic Geology, International Journal of Earth Sciences, Journal of Earth Science, Földtani Közlöny)
    • November 12, 2023: Public science lecture at the Hungarian Natural History Museum: "Inclusions trapped in minerals as hundred-million-year-old geological time capsules", at the Earth Science Fair
    • June 8, 2023: Public science lecture: "Inclusions and metamorphic processes: domestic and international case studies", by invitation of the Fejér County Mineral Collectors Circle
    • April 12, 2023: Public science lecture: "Inclusions: the time capsules of geology", by invitation of the TIT Stúdió Association Mineral Collectors Group
    • October 21, 2021: Public science lecture: "Mineral of the year: tourmaline", by invitation of the TIT Stúdió Association Mineral Collectors Group
    • October 23–24, 2020: Field excursion leadership at the ELUSCSEG field course on magmatic–metamorphic evolution and mineralisation in the Sopron and Kőszeg Hills; editing of the field guide
    • May 1, 2020: Submission of a science communication article to the ÚNKP Science Communication Competition (Tamás Spránitz: How did the Earth's mantle end up on the coast of the ocean, or what are fluid inclusions?)
    • November 20, 2019: Peer review of an English-language manuscript for Földtani Közlöny (author and title: Kálmán Török: Multiple fluid migration events and REE+Th mineralisation during Alpine metamorphism in Sopron micaschist from the Eastern-Alps (Sopron area, Western-Hungary))
    • September 8–13, 2019: Ore deposit and metamorphic petrology field course in the Western Alps (ELUSCSEG): organisation and leadership of the field course, editing of the field guide (ISBN: 978-963-489-158-1)
    • August 20–25, 2017: VII. Inter-university Field Course: Alpokalja, Burgenland; field leadership in the Sopron Hills, editing of the field guide
    • March 3, 2017: Organisation of the rock collection of Budapest University of Technology and Economics; identification of rocks and database compilation
    • February 6, 2017: Organisation of the rock collection of József Attila Secondary School, Monor; identification of rocks and database compilation
    • 2016–2017: Vice-President of the Eötvös Loránd University Student Chapter of the Society of Economic Geologists
    • October 14, 2016: Teaching and group leadership at a field excursion for undivided Geography Teacher students in the Visegrád Hills
    • September 20, 2016: Teaching and group leadership at a field excursion for undivided Geography Teacher students in the Visegrád Hills
    • May 28, 2016: Teaching and group leadership at a field excursion for undivided Geography Teacher students in the Visegrád Hills
    • May 21, 2016: Public science outreach at the Explorers' Day 2016 event
    • 2015–2016: President of the Eötvös Loránd University Student Chapter of the Society of Economic Geologists
    • August 1, 2015: Public science outreach at the Valley of Arts 2015 festival
    • May 9, 2015: Public science outreach at the Explorers' Day 2015 event
    • April 25–26, 2015: Public science outreach at the Earth Day event
    • 2013–2014: Active involvement in infrastructure development of the microtechnical laboratory of the Department of Petrology and Geochemistry
    • 2009–: Active participation in the Székesfehérvár Mineral Collectors' Circle; organisation of permanent and temporary mineral exhibitions at the House of Liberal Education; interactive public science lectures at open days; collection management (http://www.minerals.hu/index.php?m=news&article=144&lang=hun)
  • Süle, Bálint Süle, Bálint Research fellow Research fellow +36 1-248-2305
    Süle, Bálint

    Süle, Bálint

    Phone : +36 1-248-2305
    E-mail:

    Publications:

    #seismology

    Career:

    Bálint Süle graduated from the geophysics programme at Eötvös Loránd University in 2002, with his thesis focusing on flow processes in the Earth's mantle. Alongside numerical modelling of mantle convection, he also began conducting seismological research, specifically the determination of earthquake source parameters. His current main area of activity is the operation of seismological stations, observatory data acquisition, and data processing.

    Research Projects and Grants:

    • Geo-hydrodynamics: fluid dynamic phenomena in the Earth's interior – co-investigator – 2002–2005
    • Further development of measurement methods for Earth tides and related geodynamic phenomena, processing and complex interpretation of data recorded in the Pannonian Basin – co-investigator – 2004–2007
    • Interaction of the Earth's rotation vector with geodynamic processes – co-investigator – 2006–2010
    • Comprehensive investigation of source parameters of domestic earthquakes – co-investigator – 2007–2010
    • Numerical modelling of the dynamics of mantle convection and its surface manifestations – co-investigator – 2008–2013
    • Structure and geodynamics of the Eastern Alps – Pannonian Basin transition zone based on data from the AlpArray Seismological Network – co-investigator – 2017–2022
    • Discrimination of natural and man-made events by joint analysis of seismic and infrasound data – co-investigator – 2018–2023

    Memberships / Professional Communities:

    • Association of Hungarian Geophysicists – member – 2000-
    • FDSN (International Federation of Digital Seismograph Networks) – representative – 2021-
    • ISC (International Seismological Centre) – representative – 2023-
    • EMSC (European-Mediterranean Seismological Centre) – representative – 2023-

    Education:

    • MSc in Geophysics – Eötvös Loránd University – 2002

    Recent / Featured Publications:

    • Süle, B.; Czecze, B.; Czifra, T.; Csatlós, M.; Gyarmati, A.; Győri, E.; Schlömer, A.; Pásztor, M.; Wéber, Z.; Kalmár, D.; Working Group and AdriaArray Seismology Group (2025). Seismological Network in Hungary: Insights from the AdriaArray Operational Period. Annals of Geophysics, 68(5), DM559. https://doi.org/10.4401/ag-9321
    • Csatlós M., Süle B. (2025). Calibration of the Local Magnitude Scale for Hungary. Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America, 115(1), pp. 163–173. https://doi.org/10.1785/0120240090
    • Wéber, Z., Czecze, B., Süle, B. et al. (2020). Source analysis of the March 7, ML=4.0, 2019 Somogyszob, Hungary earthquake sequence. Acta Geodaetica et Geophysica, 55, 371–387. https://doi.org/10.1007/s40328-020-00311-7
    • Wéber Z., Süle B. (2014). Source properties of the 29 January 2011 ML 4.5 Oroszlány (Hungary) mainshock and its aftershocks. Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America, 104(1), pp. 113–127. https://doi.org/10.1785/0120130152
    • Süle, B., Wéber, Z. (2013). Earthquake source parameters and scaling relationships in Hungary (central Pannonian basin). Journal of Seismology, 17, 507–521. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10950-012-9334-3
  • Szabó, Csaba Szabó, Csaba
  • Szalai, Sándor Szalai, Sándor Scientific advisor Scientific advisor +36 99-508-362
    Szalai, Sándor

    Szalai, Sándor

    Phone : +36 99-508-362
    E-mail:

    Publications:


    MTMT: https://m2.mtmt.hu/gui2/?type=authors&mode=browse&sel=authors10000585
    Scholar: https://scholar.google.com/citations?hl=en&user=A6Sr36AAAAJ
    ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9034-7945
    ResearchGate: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/S_Szalai
    Scopus: https://www.scopus.com/authid/detail.uri?authorId=6701415709 Szalai Sándor - CV #geolectromagnetism #geophysics

    Career:

    Sándor Szalai has been working at the Institute of Earth Science and Space Physics, Sopron, Hungary, since 1993 and has served as scientific advisor since 2020.  He got his PhD degree in 2002, at the University of West Hungary, Sopron, and he was promoted to DSc, doctor of the Hungarian Academy in 2020. He acted, among others, as a postgraduate student in the University Fridericiana, Karlsruhe, Germany and as a postdoctoral researcher in the University Louis Pasteur, Geophysical, Strasbourg, France. He was the Head of the Geoelectric Groupe in the Geodetic and Geophysical Institute of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Sopron, Hungary. He has about 800 citations. His actual Hirsch index is 17. He was awarded the Bolyai János research Scholarship two times and appreciated by the Board for his outstanding research. In 2003, he got the award for “the best paper of the year” in Hungary. His research mainly focuses on the study of different geoelecric arrays, their comparison based on different parameters, studying null and quasi arrays with applications in hydrogeology, karst and landslide studies.

    Research Projects and Grants:

    • New Trends in Magnetotellurics – co-researcher – 2002–2005
    • Non-Conventional Geo-Electric Arrays – principal investigator – 2005–2008
    • Geoelectromagnetism and the Changing Earth – co-researcher – 2006–2009

    Memberships / Professional Associations:

    • European Association of Geophysicists and Engineers – 1997–
    • Assosiation of Hungarian Geophysicists, Sopron Group – Secretary – 1999–2002
    • Member, Hungarian Academy of Sciences (HAS) – 2002–
    • Head of the Sopron Group, Hungarian Geophysical Association – 2005–2008
    • Scientific Secretary, GGKI HAS – 2006–2010
    • Head of the Geophysical Working Group, Veszprém Academy Committee – 2007–2008
    • Editor, International Journal of Geophysics – 2018–
    • Member, Geophysical Scientific Committee – 2020–
    • Member, Mikoviny Sámuel Doctoral School of Earth Sciences, University of Miskolc – 2020–
    • Editor, Geosciences and Engineering Journal – 2022–

    Awards / Honors:

    • Recognition for outstanding research, Bolyai János research Scholarship Board – 2014
    • Bolyai János research Scholarship Board, 3-year scholarship – 2011
    • Recognition for outstanding research, Bolyai János research Scholarship Board – 2011
    • Bolyai János research Scholarship Board, 3-year scholarship – 2008
    • Best Paper of the Year (Hungary) – 2003
    • Scholarship, University Louis Pasteur, Strasbourg, France – 2002
    • Szádetzky-Kardoss Elemér Award – 2001
    • Scholarship, University Fridericiana, Karlsruhe, Germany – 1994

    Education:

    • DSc, Hungarian Academy of Sciences – 2020
    • PhD, University of West-Hungary – 2002
    • MSc, Eötvös Loránd University, geophysics (environmental researcher) – 1993
     
  • Szűcs, Eszter Szűcs, Eszter Research fellow Research fellow +36 99-508-388
    Szűcs, Eszter

    Szűcs, Eszter

    Phone : +36 99-508-388
    E-mail:
    Office 2.16

    Publications:

    #InSAR #radarinterferometry #remotesensing #earthobservation #geodynamics #geodesy

    Career:

    Eszter Szűcs obtained her MSc degree in Surveying and Geoinformatics Engineering from the Budapest University of Technology and Economics (BME) in 2009. Following graduation, she joined the Geodetic and Geophysical Research Institute of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, where she continues to work today. Between 2009 and 2012, she was a PhD student at the Department of Geodesy and Surveying at BME, with her research focusing on the determination of the geoid surface in Hungary with utmost precision, particularly on the application of Eötvös torsion balance measurements in geoid modelling. She successfully defended her PhD thesis on this topic in 2016. She currently works within the institute's space geodesy ESA PECS project, which aims at the joint processing of GNSS and radar interferometric measurements for the 3D determination of tectonic processes. The research group developed a geodynamic monument incorporating twin corner reflectors specialised for the Sentinel-1 satellite, which is now deployed at numerous tectonically active sites for motion detection. In addition, she works in the field of satellite radar interferometry, which has been an emerging research area at the institute for several years, continuously expanding her expertise in processing data from various SAR missions. Her work relies on several professional tools and frameworks, including the ISCE (Interferometric Scientific Computational Environment) and GIAnT (Generic InSAR Analysis Toolbox) software environments, the StAMPS (Stanford Method for PS Analysis) approach, and the GAMMA DInSAR toolbox.

    Research Projects and Grants:

    • Construction and analysis of the seismotectonic model of Hungary, NKFIH National Excellence Programme – participant – 2019–2022
    • ESA PECS Integrated Sentinel-1 PSI and GNSS technical facilities and procedures for determination of 3D surface deformations caused by environmental processes – participant – 2016–2018

    Memberships / Professional Communities:

    • Acta Geodaetica et Geophysica (Springer-Nature) – Managing Editor
    • Hungarian EPOS (European Plate Observing System) consortium – Science administration, institutional scientific secretary

    Education:

    • PhD – Budapest University of Technology and Economics (BME) – 2016
    • MSc in Surveying and Geoinformatics Engineering – BME – 2009

    Recent / Selected Publications:

    • Szűcs, E., Gönczy, S., Bozsó, I., Bányai, L., Szakacs, A., Szárnya, C., & Wesztergom, V. (2021). Evolution of surface deformation related to salt-extraction-caused sinkholes in Solotvyno (Ukraine) revealed by Sentinel-1 radar interferometry. Natural Hazards and Earth System Sciences, 21(3), 977–993. doi:10.5194/nhess-21-977-2021
    • Bozso, I., Banyai, L., Hooper, A., Szucs, E., & Wesztergom, V. (2021). Integration of sentinel-1 interferometry and GNSS networks for derivation of 3-D surface changes. IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Letters, 18(4), 692–696. doi:10.1109/lgrs.2020.2984917
    • Banyai, L., Nagy, L., Hooper, A., Bozso, I., Szucs, E., & Wesztergom, V. (2020). Investigation of integrated twin corner reflectors designed for 3-D InSAR applications. IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Letters, 17(6), 1013–1016. doi:10.1109/lgrs.2019.2939675
    • Hetényi, G., Molinari, I., Clinton, J., Bokelmann, G., Bondár, I., Crawford, W. C., … AlpArray Working Group. (2018). The AlpArray Seismic Network: A large-scale European experiment to image the Alpine orogen. Surveys in Geophysics, 39(5), 1009–1033. doi:10.1007/s10712-018-9472-4
  • Vincze, Miklós Pál Vincze, Miklós Pál Senior research fellow Senior research fellow +3670 310 3352
    Vincze, Miklós Pál

    Vincze, Miklós Pál

    Phone : +3670 310 3352
    E-mail:

    Publications:

    #planetary_atmospheres #environmental_flows

    Career:

    He obtained his physics degree (2008) and PhD (2012) at Eötvös Loránd University. He spent his postdoctoral years at Brandenburg University of Technology (Cottbus, Germany), from where he returned to the MTA–ELTE Theoretical Physics Research Group with an MTA Postdoctoral Excellence Fellowship. From 2020, he has been the head of the Kármán Environmental Fluid Dynamics Laboratory at ELTE. From 2022, he has been a senior research fellow at the HUN-REN Institute of Earth Physics and Space Science. In 2023, he obtained his habilitation at the Institute of Physics of ELTE, where he was appointed associate professor in 2025.

    Research Projects and Grants:

    • NKFIH "OTKA" (FK) – Experimental investigation of large-scale environmental flow and climate dynamics processes – principal investigator – 2017-2022
    • NKFIH "OTKA" (K) – Ensemble approach in climate dynamics – participant – 2017-2023
    • Fulbright Research Grant – Laboratory investigations of thermally driven ocean circulation blocked by continental barriers – principal investigator – 2021
    • NKFIH "OTKA" (FK) – Effect of climate change on convective flow systems of the Earth – participant – 2020-2023
    • HUNOR open call – Differential Rotation on a Sphere – principal investigator (project scientist) – 2023-2026
    • ESA PRODEX – Venus Radar Topography and Atmospheric Circulation – principal investigator – 2024-2027

    Memberships / Professional Communities:

    • MTA Subcommittee on Geonomics and Planetology – member
    • Hungarian Astronautical Society – member

    Awards / Recognition:

    • Fulbright Research Fellowship (Florida State University) – 2020-2021
    • Bolyai Memorial Plaque – 2021
    • Junior Prima Award (Hungarian science category) – 2017
    • MTA Environmental Science Youth Award – 2015
    • Brandenburg Young Researcher Prize – 2014

    Education:

    • PhD – Eötvös Loránd University, Doctoral School of Physics – 2012
    • MSc in Physics – Eötvös Loránd University – 2008

    Recent / Featured Publications:

    • Harlander, U., Kurgansky, M. V., Speer, K., & Vincze, M. (2024). Baroclinic instability from an experimental perspective. Comptes Rendus. Physique, 25(S3), 379–426. https://doi.org/10.5802/crphys.198
    • Vincze, M., Bozóki, T., Herein, M., Borcia, I. D., Harlander, U., Horicsányi, A., ... & Pálfy, J. (2021). The Drake Passage opening from an experimental fluid dynamics point of view. Scientific Reports, 11(1), 19951. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-021-99123-0
    • Medjdoub, K., Jánosi, I. M., & Vincze, M. (2020). Laboratory investigations on the resonant feature of 'dead water' phenomenon. Experiments in Fluids, 61(1), 6. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00348-019-2830-2
    • Vincze, M., Borcia, I. D., & Harlander, U. (2017). Temperature fluctuations in a changing climate: an ensemble-based experimental approach. Scientific Reports, 7(1), 254. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-017-00319-0
  • Wesztergom, Viktor Wesztergom, Viktor +36 99-508-358

Honorary Associates and Emeriti

  • Bányai, László Bányai, László +36 99-508-350
  • Mentes, Gyula Mentes, Gyula Research Professor Emeritus Research Professor Emeritus +36 99-508-350
    Mentes, Gyula

    Mentes, Gyula

    Phone : +36 99-508-350
    E-mail:

    Publications:

    #geodynamics #tides_and_related_phenomena #development_of_geodynamic_and_geodetic_instruments

    Career:

    Dr. Gyula Mentes began his research career in 1971 as a technical staff member at the MTA Geodetic Research Laboratory (from 1972, the MTA Geodetic and Geophysical Research Institute). From 1978 to 1986 he served as a research fellow and head of the electrical laboratory. From 1987 to 1999 he was a senior research fellow and head of the Instrument Development Department. From 2000 to 2011 he was a scientific advisor and head of the Geodetic Department at the MTA Research Centre for Astronomy and Earth Sciences, Geodetic and Geophysical Institute. From 2012 to 2014 he was a scientific advisor and head of the Geodynamics Research Group. From 1 May 2014 he has been retired, holding the title of Research Professor Emeritus. From 1991 to 2000 he was an associate professor in an additional employment capacity at the Institute of Physics and Electrical Engineering, Faculty of Wood Engineering, University of West Hungary. From 2001 to 2014 he held a full professor position in an additional employment capacity. Since 2015 he has been a retired part-time lecturer. Courses taught: Electrical Engineering I–II, Electronics, Computer Architectures, Sensors and Actuators. In 2016 he was awarded the title of Professor Emeritus. From 1992 to 1994 he was a visiting lecturer and research project supervisor at the Institute of Surveying and Engineering Geodesy, Vienna University of Technology, teaching courses in engineering geodetic measurement techniques and engineering geodetic computations. His research areas include global and local geodynamics, investigation of Earth tides and related phenomena, atmospheric tides, dependence of radon emission on temperature, atmospheric pressure and tides, measurement and investigation of the causes of slope movements, and monitoring of the structural health of industrial facilities — for example, in Austria: movement monitoring of the Ybbs hydroelectric power plant building, the Zillertal reservoir dam, and the Tulln Danube bridge. Instrument development: design of more than 40 instruments for research purposes, for other institutions, and for export, including: a capacitive transducer-based horizontal pendulum, conversion of photo-recording extensometers to electrical recording (in 3 countries), calibration equipment for extensometers, borehole extensometer, automatic levelling rod comparator, digital planimeter, meteorological measuring station, and others.

    Research Projects and Grants:

    • OTKA T 2131 – participant – 1991-1993
    • OTKA T 4315 – principal investigator – 1992-1995
    • OTKA T 014896 – participant – 1995-1998
    • OTKA T 019030 – principal investigator – 1996-1999
    • OTKA M 27206 – principal investigator – 1999
    • OTKA T 029049 – participant – 1999-2001
    • OTKA M 36921 – principal investigator – 2001
    • OTKA T 031713 – principal investigator – 2000-2003
    • OTKA T 038123 – participant – 2002-2005
    • OTKA T 046264 – principal investigator – 2004-2007
    • OTKA K 60394 – participant – 2006-2009
    • OTKA K 71952 – principal investigator – 2008-2011
    • OTKA K 78332 – participant – 2009-2012
    • OTKA K 81295 – principal investigator – 2010-2014
    • EU FP5 G1RT-CT-2001-05040, SAMCO – principal investigator – 2002-2006
    • EU FP5 EVG1-2001-00061 OASYS – principal investigator – 2003-2006
    • TéT D-4/96 (UNG-047-96) – principal investigator – 1997-1999
    • TéT D-8/99 (UNG-026-99) – principal investigator – 2000-2002
    • TéT A-2/99 – principal investigator – 2000-2001
    • TéT A-8/02 – principal investigator – 2003-2004
    • TéT A-2/02 – participant – 2003-2004
    • TéT A13/2005 – principal investigator – 2006-2007

    Memberships / Professional Communities:

    • MTA Public Body – member – 1994–
    • MTA Committee on Geodesy and Geoinformatics – voting member – 1989-
    • MTA Committee on Geodesy and Geoinformatics – chair – 2012-2017
    • Earth Sciences Doctoral Committee – voting member – 2021-
    • Association of Hungarian Geophysicists – member
    • Hungarian Geological Society – member
    • Hungarian Hydrological Society – member
    • IAG SG 4.1 International Research Group – leader – 2005-2008
    • IAG WG 4.2.4 International Research Group – leader – 2008-2011
    • IAG WG 4.2.5 International Research Group – leader – 2011-2014
    • IAG SG 4.1 International Research Group – leader – 2011-2014
    • De Gruyter Journal of Applied Geodesy – co-founder and editorial board member – 2007-

    Awards / Recognition:

    • Academy Award – 1989
    • Széchenyi Professor Fellowship – 1999
    • Dean's Award of the Faculty of Civil Engineering, Slovak University of Technology – 2001
    • Fellow of IAG – 2011

    Education:

    • Dr. Habil – Budapest University of Technology and Economics – 2000
    • Doctor of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences (DSc) – 1999
    • Candidate of Technical Sciences – 1987
    • Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Instrument and Control Engineering specialisation – Budapest University of Technology and Economics – 1972-1977
    • Kandó Kálmán College of Electrical Engineering – 1968-1971
  • Sátori, Gabriella Sátori, Gabriella Research Professor Emerita Research Professor Emerita +36 99-508-350
    Sátori, Gabriella

    Sátori, Gabriella

    Phone : +36 99-508-350
    E-mail:

    Publications:

    #space_weather #ionosphere #atmospheric_electricity

    Career:

    Her field of expertise within geophysics covers atmospheric electricity, the Earth–ionosphere waveguide, Schumann resonance, ELF/VLF wave propagation, the lower ionosphere, and Sun–Earth physical connections. Her current research continues to focus on the interpretation of observations based on Schumann resonance measurements, particularly in relation to global lightning activity, climate change, space weather connections, and the clarification of the role of galactic cosmic rays and high-energy solar particles in the global distribution of lightning discharges.

    Research Projects and Grants:

    • AKA, Academic Research Fund – PI – 1986–1988
    • OTKA grant No. T4395 – PI – 1991–1994
    • JF.554 Hungarian-American Joint Scientific and Technological Fund – PI – 1996–1998
    • OTKA grant No. T023111 – PI – 1997–2000
    • OTKA grant No. T034309 – PI – 2001–2004
    • TP 204 MŰI, Hungarian Space Research Office – PI – 2004–2005
    • TP 224 MŰI, Hungarian Space Research Office – PI – 2004
    • EST CLG 980431 NATO Polish-Hungarian Cooperative Grant – participant – 2004–2005
    • OTKA grant No. K 72474 – PI – 2008–2012
    • MTA Visiting Professor Fellowship, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Prof. Earle Williams) – invited PI – 2014–2015
    • NKFIH grant No. K138824 – participant – 2021–2026

    Memberships / Professional Communities:

    • Association of Hungarian Geophysicists – Secretary of the Sopron Group (6 years), President of the Sopron Group (3 years)
    • Hungarian Astronautical Society – member – for several years
    • IAGA (International Association of Geomagnetism and Aeronomy, Division II) – member
    • IUGG (International Union of Geodesy and Geophysics) – IAGA national representative – 2011-2015
    • TEA-IS ESF Research Network – Member of the Steering Committee – 2011-2016
    • COST Action CA15211 Atmospheric Electricity Network – Member of the Management Committee – 2017-
    • NKFIH, OTKA College – member – 2015-2018
    • Committee on Geophysics, MTA Division X – member – 2012-
    • European Geosciences Union – member
    • American Geophysical Union – member – 1996-

    Awards / Recognition:

    • MGE Renner János Memorial Medal – 1999
    • MGE Egyed László Memorial Medal – 2008
    • MGE Eötvös Loránd Memorial Medal – 2022
    • Knight's Cross of the Hungarian Order of Merit – 2017
    • MTA Emeritus Researcher – 2017
    • ELKH Research Professor Emeritus – 2022

    Education:

    • MSc in Geophysics – Eötvös Loránd University – 1971
    • University Doctoral Degree – Eötvös Loránd University – 1979
    • Candidate of Earth Sciences – Hungarian Academy of Sciences – 1992
    • Doctor of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences (DSc) – 2013

    Recent / Featured Publications:

      • Bozóki, T., Mlynarczyk, J., Prácser, E., Kulak, A., Sátori, G., Füllekrug, M., & Williams, E. (2025). Modeling the Global Electromagnetic Resonance Field Produced by Lightning Discharges With a Continuing Current. Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres. https://doi.org/10.1029/2025JD043989
      • Liu, Y., Williams, E., Guha, A., Sátori, G., Pinto, O. N., Said, R., Holzworth, R., Virts, K., Lang, T., Zhu, Y., et al. (2025). Reduction in Global Lightning Activity During the COVID Pandemic. Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres. https://doi.org/10.1029/2024JD042319
      • Sátori, G., Bozóki, T., Williams, E., Prácser, E., Herein, M., Albrecht, R. I., & Beltran, R. P. (2024). How Do Schumann Resonance Frequency Changes in the Vertical Electric Field Component Reflect Global Lightning Dynamics at Different Time Scales? Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres. https://doi.org/10.1029/2024JD041455
  • Varga, Péter Varga, Péter Emeritus researcher Emeritus researcher +36 1-248-2204
    Varga, Péter

    Varga, Péter

    Phone : +36 1-248-2204
    E-mail:

    Publications:

    #seismology #planetary_geodynamics #energy_and_age_of_geological_processes #history_of_science

    Career:

    Péter Varga began his research career at the Hungarian State Eötvös Loránd Geophysical Institute, where he worked from 1960 to 1986, first as a research associate and later as a senior research associate. From 1987 to 1990, he served as Scientific Vice President of the Central Geological Office. From 1990, he served as Director of the Geodetic and Geophysical Research Institute, and from 1991 to 2011 as Deputy Director of the same institute, simultaneously heading the Kövesligethy Radó Seismological Observatory. In parallel, from 1991 to 2010, he held the position of Secretary General of the Earth Science Committee of Central European Cooperation.

    Research Projects and Grants:

    • Humboldt Foundation and DFG projects on multiple occasions – since 2010

    Memberships / Professional Communities:

    • Association of Hungarian Geophysicists
    • German Geophysical Society
    • Gauss Society, Göttingen

    Awards / Recognition:

    • Humboldt Research Fellowship (1982, 1985, 1988 … 2022)
    • Academy Award – 1990
    • Excellence Award of the journal Természet Világa – 1994
    • László Egyed Memorial Medal – 1996
    • Széchenyi Professorial Fellowship – 2000
    • Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft Grant – 2004
    • Medal of Honour of the Central European Initiative – 2004
    • Commemorative Plaque for Cooperation in Disaster Prevention – 2007
    • Eötvös Wreath – 2021
    • Middle Cross of the Order of Merit of Hungary – 2022

    Education:

    • Habilitated Doctor, Budapest University of Technology and Economics – 2001
    • Doctor of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences – 1986
    • Candidate of Sciences (CSc) – 1975
    • MSc in Geophysics, Lomonosov Moscow State University – 1966

Senior staff

  • András, Ludmány András, Ludmány senior scientist senior scientist
    András, Ludmány

    András, Ludmány

    E-mail:
    Web: http://fenyi.solarobs.epss.hu/en/personnel/ Physicist (University of Debrecen, 1974). CSc (Main Astronomical Observatory, Ukrainian Acad.Sci., Kyiv, 1991). Research fellow of the Heliophysical Observatory, Debrecen, 1974-2016. Hungarian representative of SCOSTEP. Research fields: Dynamics of solar active regions Spectroscopy of sunspots Sunspot databases Solar-terrestrial physics Solar flares Teaching at the University of Debrecen: Physics of the sun and stars Astrophysics by space instruments Introduction to space physics Musical acoustics
  • Haszpra, László Haszpra, László +36 99-508-350
  • Prácser, Ernő Prácser, Ernő