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Date of birth: 6 March 1975.

Education:

  • Eszterházy Károly Teacher Training College, Eger,

      • 1997, BSc from biology and environment protection

  • University of Pécs, Pécs,

      • 2000, MSc from biology

  • Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest

      • 2006, PhD from taxonomy

  • Hungarian Academy of Sciences

      • 2020, DSc from Agricultural Sciences

Occupation:

  • 2012- Plant Protection Institute, Centre for Agricultural Research,

    • 2012- senior researcher,

    • 2016 - head of the Zoology Department

    • 2016 - director

  • 2001-2012. Department of Zoology, Hungarian Natural History Museum (museologist, senior museologist)

  • 2001-2011, Systematic Zoology Research Group of Hungarian Academy of Sciences and Eötvös Loránd University (research fellow)

  • 2010-, honorary associate professor, University of West Hungary, Faculty of Forestry

Scholarships:

  • Go8 Fellowship for European researchers in Australia (2012): Studies on the cave-dweling mites on arid area of Australia. University of Adelaide.

  • European Commission’s (FP 6) Integrated Infrastructure Initiative program SYNTHESYS2 (BE-TAF-2063) (2012): Taxonomic and zoogeographic studies on the Afrotropical Uropodina species.

  • European Commission’s (FP 6) Integrated Infrastructure Initiative program SYNTHESYS2 (DE-TAf-2085) (2012): Taxonomical and systematical studies on Uropodina species described by professor Wolfgang Karg.

  • European Commission’s (FP 6) Integrated Infrastructure Initiative program SYNTHESYS (GB-TAF-4884) (2008): Taxonomical and zoogeographical investigations of species from the family Rotundabaloghiidae (Acari: Mesostigmata: Uropodina).

  • Bolyai János Scholarship of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences (2007-2010): Taxonomic and zoogeographic studies on the genus Rotundabaloghia.

Teaching activity:

  • 2001-2011, Systematic Zoology. (practical course for biology students) at the Department of Systematic Zoology and Ecology, Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest

  • 2002-, Biogeography, and protection of the invertebrate animals at the Faculty of Forestry, University of West Hungary

  • 2010-, Introduction to the acarology, at the Department of Systematic Zoology and Ecology, Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest