Teachers

Horváth, Erzsébet

 

Assignment

habil. associate professor

Qualification

geographer, specialized on geomorphology and hydrology (1987)

Scientific Degree

PhD (1995),

habilitation (2009)

Language Skills

English, German

Research

tephrostratigraphy, complex investigation of loess-paleosoil series.
Contact Location: Southern Block 1.220
Phone: +36 1 3722500/1810
E-mail: tefra[at]freemail.hu

Education

  • Geography of Quaternary
  • Geography of loess
  • New ways in the physical geography
  • Geomorphology
  • Physical geography (Geomorphological synthesis)
  • Loessresearch
  • Geography of external forces
  • Geomorphological synthesis
  • Landscape evolution int he Carpathian Basin during the Quaternary (PhD)
  • Climat changes int he Pleistocene (PhD)
  • Loess stratigraphy and Plesitocene environmental changes in Hungary

Scientific Public Life

  • Member of Scientific Advisory board of LIAG, Hannover, Germany;
  • Member of INQUA Commission on Tephrochronology;
  • Secretary of INQUA Hungarian National Committee;
  • Member of Hungarian Geographical Society;
  • Member of Hungarian Geological Society;
  • Member of IAVCEI (International Association of Volcanology and Chemistry of the Earth’s Interior);
  • Member of Society of AMFK Magyary Zoltán Postdoctorate Scholarship;
  • Secretary of IAG Hungarian National Committee, secretary (1999-2003)

Prizes, Awards, National Scholarships

  • 1. Prize in the geological section of National Scientific Conference of Students (1985)
  • 2. Prize of Junior Scientists' Award of Hungarian Geological Society (1986)
  • Study Scholarship of the Hungarian People’s Republic (1986-1987)
  • Scholarship of Hungarian Academy of Sciences (1987-1990)
  • Magyary Zoltán Postdoctoral Fellowship (1995-1996)
  • Grant of the Nat. Science Foundation of Belgium - Dept. of Soil Science, Univ. of Gent (1996-1997)
  • Békésy Scholarship (2001-2003)
  • Bolyai János Research Scholarship (2004-2007)
  • Bolyai János Research Scholarship (2008-2011)

International grants, scholarships

  • Dept. of Soil Science, Univ. of Gent (1998)
  • University of Liege (1989)

10 Selected Publications

  1. Novothny, Á; Frechen, M; Horváth, E; Krbetschek, M; Tsukamoto, S. 2009. Infrared stimulated luminescence and radiofluorescence dating of aeolian sediments from Hungary Quaternary Geochronology, In Press, Corrected Proof, Available online 18 May 2009
  2. Novothny, Á; Frechen, M; Horváth, E; Bradák, B; Oches, E. A; McCoy, W; Stevens, T. 2009. Luminescence and amino acid racemization chronology of the loess-paleosol sequence at Süttő, Hungary. Quaternary International 198: 62-76.
  3. Ruszkiczay-Rüdiger Zs; Fodor L; Horváth E; Telbisz T. 2009. Discrimination of fluvial, eolian and neotectonic features in a low hilly landscape: A DEM-based morphotectonic analysis in the Central Pannonian Basin, Hungary. Geomorphology
  4. Ruszkiczay-Rüdiger Zs; Fodor L; Horváth E. 2007. Neotectonics and quaternary landscape evolution of the Godollo Hills, Central Pannonian Basin, Hungary. Global and Planetary Change 58, 1-4: 181-196.
  5. Horváth E; Bradák B; Novothny Á; Frechen M. 2007. A löszök paleotalajainak rétegtani és környezetrekonstrukciós jelentősége. Földrajzi Közlemények CXXXI. (LV.), 4: 389-406.
  6. Ruszkiczay-Rüdiger Zs; Fodor L; Bada G; Leél-Össy Sz; Horváth E; Dunai T. 2005. Quantification of Quaternary vertical movements in the central Pannonian Basin: review of chronologic data along the Danube River, Hungary. Tectonophysics, 410: 152-172.
  7. Ruszkiczay-Rüdiger Zs; Dunai T; Bada G; Fodor L; Horváth E. 2005. Middle to late Pleistocene uplift rate of the Hungarian Mountain Range at the Danube Bend, (Pannonian Basin) using in situ produced 3He. Tectonohysics, 410: 173-187.
  8. Horváth E; Novothny Á; Frechen M. 2006. Bulla löszsztratigráfiája a legújabb abszolút kormeghatározások tükrében. Földrajzi Közlemények, CXXX (LIV). 3-4: 171-183.
  9. Horváth E. 2001. Marker horizons in the loesses of the Carpathian Basin. Quaternary International 76/77: 157-163.
  10. Pouclet A; Horváth E; Gábris Gy; Juvigné E. 1999. The Bag Tephra, a widespread tephrochronological marker in Middle Europe: chemical and mineralogical investigations. Bull. Volcanol. 60: 265-272.

Scientometry

Cumulative Impact Factor: 15,422
Independent Citations: 85 (SCI: 52)

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Selected Research Grants

  • OTKA K68219 A Gödöllői-dombság és a Duna-teraszok negyedidőszaki képződményeinek komplex összehasonlító vizsgálata: morfotektonikai és őskörnyezeti rekonstrukciós tanulmányok. (2007-2011), témavezető;
  • Ifjúsági OTKA (1990-1993), témavezető;
  • OTKA 62478 A szél hatása a késő-neogén–negyedidőszaki üledékképződésre és a domborzat alakulására a Magyar-középhegységben és előterében. (2006-2010), társkutató;
  • T 0344979, Paleo-folyódinamika: természeti és antropogén hatások szerepe a Középső-Tisza környezetváltozásaiban. (2001-2004), társkutató;
  • T 029798 Későmiocén-negyedkori szerkezetalakulás és felszínfejlődés a Gödöllői-dombság környezetében. (1999-2003), társkutató;
  • K+F 0180/1999 Újabb módszerek felhasználása a hazai közép és felsőpleisztocén valamint holocén kulcsfeltárások vizsgálatában a földrajzi környezet változásának rekonstrukciója céljából. (1999-2002), társkutató

 

Gábris, Gyula

 

Assignment

Professor Emeritus

Qualification

Biology-Geography teacher (1965, ELTE)

Cartographer (1966, ELTE)

Scientific Degree

Dr. Univ. (1970);

PhD (1987)

Dr. Habil (1997);

Doctor of Sciences (2003, HAS)

Language Skills

English, French

Research

Physical Geography, above all Geomorphology (Fluvial and Aeolian processes), Holocene–Lateglacial palaeohydrology and -hydrography, Quaternary research.
Contact Location: Southern Block 1.217
Phone: +36 1 3722500/1798
E-mail: gabris[at]ludens.elte.hu

Education

  • Introduction to Physical Geography
  • Geography of External Forces
  • Synthesis of the Physical Geography
  • Changing landscape of Carpathian Basin
  • Climatic Geomorphology
  • Physical Geography of Africa
  • Physical Geography of Australia and Oceania
  • Quaternary Research
  • Geomorphology of arid lands

Scientific Public Life

  • Director of the Institute of Geography 1992-1999
  • Head of the Department of Physical Geography 1993-2007
  • Member of Strategic Committee of Faculty 1999-2002 and 2005-2009
  • Geography and Meteorology Program leader of PhD School in Earth Sciences 2001-2009
  • President of the Council of Professors in Earth Sciences 2002-2010
  • Member of Faculty Council of PhD School from 2004
  • Deputy Director of the Institute of Geography and Earth Sciences 2005-2007
  • Leader of PhD School of Earth Sciences from 2009
  • Secretary of Committee on Geography II (Physical Geography) 1990-1993
  • Vice president of Committee of Geography II. 1996-2001
  • President of Committee of Geography II. 2001-2002 and 2005-2008
  • Representative of Doctors in General Assembly of HAS 1997-2000 and 2007-2010
  • Member of Curatorium Bolyai János Reseach scholarship
  • Member of HAS’s Council of Doctors from 2008
  • Jury-member (Earth Sciences II) of Hungarian Scientific Research Fund from 2007
  • Secretary of Physical Geographical Section 1974-1989
  • General Secretary 1989-93
  • President of the Physical Geographical Section from 1997
  • Vice-president of Society from 2005
  • President of the Earth Sciences Section from 2009

Prizes, Awards, National Scholarships

Governmental decoration:

  • Medal of Cultural Minister (1985)

Honour of the Hungarian Geographical Society:

  • Pro Geographia charter (1982)
  • Teleki Sámuel medal (1991), Honorary member (2004)
  • Lóczy Lajos medal (2008)

Society for Dissemination of Scientific Knowledge:

  • Charter of National Presidium (1986)
  • Medal for outstanding popular work (1990)

Hungarian Society of Natural Sciences:

  • Bugát Pál–Szentágothai János medal (2002)
  • Teleki Pál medal (2004)

International grants, scholarships

  • 1975 Algeria (6 months)
  • 1975 Cluj (12 days)
  • 1978/79 France (4 months)
  • 1982 Zagreb (10 days)
  • 1983 Belgium (5 months)
  • 1986 Bratislava (1 week)
  • 1986 Liège (1 week)
  • 1987/88 East-Africa (6 months)
  • 1991 Lille (2 weeks)
  • 1991 Liège (2 weeks)
  • 1995 Sofia (1 week)
  • 1995 Zagreb (10 days)
  • 1996 Morocco (3 weeks)
  • 1998 Libya (4 weeks)

10 Selected Publications

  1. Gábris Gy: A folyóvìzi felszìnalakìtás módosulásai a hazai későglaciális–holocén őskörnyezet változásainak tükrében – Földrajzi Közlemények 119. (43) pp. 3-10. 1995
  2. Frechen, M. – Horváth E. – Gábris Gy.: Geochronology of Middle and Upper Pleistocene loess sections in Hungary. – Quaternary Research, 48. pp. 291-312. 1997
  3. Gábris Gy. – Horváth E. – Novothny Á. – Ujházy K.: History of environmental changes from the Last Glacial period in Hungary. – Praehistoria 3. pp. 9-22. 2002
  4. Gábris Gy. – Telbisz T. – Nagy B. – Belardinelli, B.: Upsilting of the floodplain of the Tisza River and the geomorphologic basis of the formation of deposits (A tiszai hullámtér feltöltődésének kérdése és az üledékképződés geomorfológiai alapjai. in Hungarian) – Vìzügyi Közlemények, 84. pp. 305-322. 2002
  5. Gábris Gy. – Kertész, Á. – Zámbó, L.: Land use change and gully formation over the last 200 years in a hilly catchment. – Catena, 50. pp. 151-164. 2003
  6. Ujházy, K. – Gábris Gy. – Frechen, M.: Ages of periods of sand movement in Hungary determined through luminescence measurements. – Quaternary International 111. pp. 91-100. 2003
  7. Gábris Gy.: A földtörténet utolsó 30 ezer évének szakaszai és a futóhomok mozgásának főbb periódusai Magyarországon. – Földrajzi Közlemények, 127 (51). pp. 1-14. 2003
  8. Gábris Gy. – Nádor A.: Long-term fluvial archives in Hungary: response of the Danube and Tisza rivers to tectonic movements and climatic changes during the Quaternary: a review. – Quaternary Sci. Reviews, 26/22-24. pp. 2758-2782. 2007
  9. Timár G. – .Gábris Gy.: Estimation of water conductivity of the natural flood channels on the Tisza flood-plain, the Great Hungarian Plain. – Geomorphology, doi:1016/j.geomorph2006.12.031 2007
  10. Gábris Gy.: Földfelszìn és éghajlat. A felszìnalaktan összegzése. – ELTE Eötvös Kiadó, Budapest, 225 p. 2007

Scientometry

Cumulative Impact Factor: 14,278
Independent Citations: 477

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Karátson, Dávid

 

Assignment

professor, head of department

Qualification

biology-geography teacher, geomorphology (1989)

Scientific Degree

PhD (Earth Sciences, ELTE, 1995)

Habilitation: 2004 (ELTE, earth sciences)

Doctor of Science (Hungarian Academy of Sciences, 2008)

Language Skills

English, German

Research

Volcanological and volcanic geomorphological research in the Carpathians (mostly in the Börzsöny-Visegrád and Mátra Mts, and the East Carpathians), Italy (Etna, Aeolian Islands), France, Central Andes, Japan, and the Southwest USA.
Contact Location: Southern Block 1.304
Phone: +36 1 3722500/1810
E-mail: dkarat[at]ludens.elte.hu

Education

  • Endogenous forces of Earth
  • Physical geography of Hungary and the Carpatho-Pannonian Region
  • Fundamentals of enviromental politics
  • Global environmental problems
  • Volcanology
  • Volcanic mountains of Earth
  • Planetology
  • New results in volcanic geomorphology I-II (PhD course)

Scientific Public Life

  • Member of public body of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences
  • Member of Hungarian Geographical Society and Hungarian Geological Society
  • International correspondent of Geology Today (Wiley-Blackwell)
  • Member of IAVCEI (International Association of Volcanology and Chemistry of the Earth’s Interior)
  • Member and vice president of the advisory board of Magyary Zoltán Board of Trustees
  • Member of the ELTE TTK Committee of Disciplinary Procedures

Prizes, Awards, National Scholarships

  • National Students’ Competition, Debrecen, First Prize in Physical Geography (1989)
  • Outstanding Young Geographer, Hungarian Geographical Society (1989)
  • Medal of Life and Science Magazine, Budapest (1997)
  • Hungarian Research Fund – Life and Science Magazine Popular Science Publication Award Third Prize (2007)
  • Magyary Zoltán Postdoctoral Fellowship (1999-2001)
  • Scholarship of the Bay Zoltán Foundation, 2 months, France (2001) and Italy (2006)
  • Bolyai János Fellowship (2002-2004)
  • Öveges József Fellowship (2006-2007)

International grants, scholarships

  • Scholarship of the Hungarian Scholarship Board Office and the Cultural Department of French Embassy, 2 months (Clermont-Ferrand, France, 2000)
  • DAAD 2 months bilateral cooperation (ELTE/Universität Tübingen, Germany, 2001-2002)
  • Fulbright Research Grant, 9 months, Fulbright Commission (2004-2005, Arizona, USA)
  • Humboldt Fellowship for Experienced Researchers, 18 months, Humboldt Stiftung (2008-2010, Göttingen, Germany)

10 Selected Publications

  1. Karátson, D., Gertisser, R., Telbisz, T., Vereb, V., Quidelleur, X., Druitt, T., Nomikou, P., Kósik, Sz. 2018: Towards reconstruction of the lost Late Bronze Age intra-caldera island of Santorini, Greece. Scientific Reports, 8: 1, Paper 7026.
  2. Karátson, D., Wulf, S., Veres, D., Magyari, E., Gertisser, R., Timar-Gabor, A., Novothny, Á., Telbisz, T., Anchitei-Deacu, V., Appelt, O., Bormann, M., Jánosi, Cs., Hubay, K., Schäbitz, F. 2016: The latest explosive eruptions of Ciomadul (Csomád) volcano, East Carpathians : a tephrostratigraphic approach for the 51–29 ka BP time interval. Journal of Volcanology and Geothermal Research, 319, 29-51.
  3. Karátson, D., Telbisz, T., Wörner, G., 2012: Erosion rates and erosion patterns of Neogene to Quaternary stratovolcanoes in the Western Cordillera of the Central Andes: an SRTM DEM based analysis. Geomorphology, 139-140, 122–135.
  4. Karátson, D., Favalli, M., Tarquini, S. – Fornaciai, A. – Wörner, G., 2010: The regular shape of stratovolcanoes: a DEM-based morphometrical approach. – Journal of Volcanology and Geothermal Research, 193, 171–181
  5. Karátson, D., Telbisz, T., Singer, B. B. 2010: Late-stage volcano-geomorphic evolution of the Pleistocene San Francisco Mountain, Arizona (USA), on the basis of high-resolution DEM analysis and Ar-Ar chronology. – Bulletin of Volcanology, 72, 833–846
  6. Karátson, D. 2007, 2009: A Börzsönytől a Hargitáig. Vulkanológia, felszínfejlődés, ősföldrajz. Typotex Kiadó, Budapest, ISBN 978-963-9664-66-1, 463 pp
  7. Favalli, M., Karátson, D., Mazzuoli, R., Pareschi, M. T., Ventura, G. 2005: Volcanic geomorphology and tectonics of the Aeolian archipelago (Southern Italy) based on integrated DEM data. Bulletin of Volcanology, 68, p. 157-170.
  8. Karátson, D., Sztanó, O., Telbisz, T. 2002: Preferred clast orientation in volcaniclastic mass-flow deposits: application of a new photo-statistical method. Journal of Sedimentary Research, 72/6, p. 823-835.
  9. Karátson, D., Thouret, J.-Cl., Moriya, I., Lomoschitz, A. 1999: Erosion calderas: origins, processes, structural and climatic control. Bulletin of Volcanology, 61, p. 174-193.
  10. Karátson, D. 1996: Rates and factors of stratovolcano degradation in a continental climate: a complex morphometric analysis of nineteen Neogene/Quaternary crater remnants in the Carpathians. Journal of Volcanology and Geothermal Research, 73, p. 65-78.

Scientometry

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Selected Research Grants

  • Geochronological, volcanological and geomorphological studies in the East Carpathians (participant); Hungarian-Romanian bilateral cooperation between Nuclear Research Institute of Hungarian Academy of Sciences (MTA) and ELTE Department of Physical Geography, Hungary, and Institutul Geologie al Romaniei (Bucharest) and SA Cuart (Baia Mare), Romania (1991-1993, 1994-1996)
  • Volcanological and geochemical studies in Miocene to Pliocene volcanic products of the Pannonian Basin (participant); No. 05/2 MTA/CNR academic collaboration between ELTE Department of Petrology-Geochemistry and Physical Geography, Hungary, and Universitá di Firenze, Dipartimento di Scienze della Terra and Universitá di Urbino, Istituto di Vulcanologia e Geochimica, Italy (1995-97)
  • Complex volcanological-geomorphological study of the areas of Börzsöny Mts and Bükk foreland, project leader, OTKA (Hungarian National Research Fund) F015629, 432,000 HuF (1995-1998)
  • Volcanological and volcano-structural study of Mátra Mountains and its vicinity, project leader, OTKA F026209, 800,000 HuF (1998-2001)
  • Comparative volcano-sedimentological and paleogeographical investigation of the Miocene volcanism in Hungary, project leader, FKFP grant, 2,700,000 HuF (2000-2002)
  • Data collection and preparation of volcanological field trip guides in Hungary, project leader, OTKA F032774,800,000 HuF (2000-2002)
  • Volcanological research in the Hungarian andesite mountains, project leader, OTKA T043644, 4,400,000 HuF (2003-2006)
  • Last eruptions of the Carpatho-Pannonian Region: Quaternary magmatism of the Southeastern Carpathians, participant, OTKA T68587, 13,000,000 HuF (2007-2011)
  • Providing long environmental and genetic records of glacial and interglacial climatic oscillations and human impact in the Carpathian Basin (PROLONG), participant, OTKA NF101362, 36,589,000 HuF (2012-2017)
  • Eruptive rates and erosional dynamics of the Inner Carpathian volcanism as constrained by volumetry, radiometric chronology and paleomagnetism, project leader, OTKA K115472, 28,300,000 HuF (2015-2019)
  • Water in fire: what can we learn from the geochemistry and water content of volcanic rocks and their phenocrysts?, participant, OTKA K128122, 25,538,000 HuF (2017-2020)
  • From Hronicum to Adriaticum: reliable paleomagnetic constraints for the quantitative tectonic reconstruction of several tectonic units of Neotethyan origin, participant, OTKA K128635, 39,488,000 (2018-2022)
  • Products, processes and timing of the Miocene explosive volcanism in North Hungary: stratigraphy of the silicic pyroclastic rocks, project leader, OTKA K131894, 39,984,000 HuF (2019-2023)

Academic staff

Karátson, Dávid

head of department, professor

 

Room: Déli Tömb 1.215

Phone: +36-1-372-2500/1810

email: karatson.david[kukac]ttk.elte.hu

Barta, Gabriella

research fellow

 

Room: Déli Tömb 1.222

Phone: +36-1-3722500/1804

email: gabriella.barta[kukac]ttk.elte.hu

Biró, Tamás

assistant professor

 

Room: Déli Tömb 1.216

Phone:

email: tamas.biro[kukac]ttk.elte.hu

Horváth, Erzsébet

associate professor

 

Room: Déli Tömb 1.220

Phone: +36-1-3722500/1802

email: erzsebet.horvath[kukac]ttk.elte.hu

Mari, László

associate professor

 

Room: Déli Tömb 1.219

Phone: +36-1-3722500/1801

email: mari.laci[kukac]gmail.com

Nagy, Balázs

associate professor

 

Room: Déli Tömb 1.218

Phone: +36-1-3722500/1799

email: balazs.nagy[kukac]ttk.elte.hu

Novothny, Ágnes

assistant professor

 

Room: Déli Tömb 1.221

Phone: +36-1-372-2500/1803

email: agnes.novothny[kukac]gmail.com

Pinke, Zsolt

senior research fellow

 

Room: Déli Tömb 1.502

Phone:

email: pinkezsolt[kukac]gmail.com

Telbisz, Tamás

associate professor

 

Room: Déli Tömb 1.221

Phone: +36-1-372-2500/1803

email: tamas.telbisz[kukac]ttk.elte.hu

Vörös, Fanni

lecturer

 

Room: Déli Tömb 1.216

Phone: 

email: fannivrs[kukac]gmail.com

Guest Lecturers

Deák, Márton

Varga, György

honorary associate professor

Retired colleagues

Gábris, Gyula

professor emeritus

Miczek, György

assistant professor

Móga, János

associate professor

 

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