2013–2019: Research fellow, MTA-DE Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services Research Group, Debrecen, Hungary
2012–2019: Assistant professor, University of Debrecen, Department of Ecology, Debrecen, Hungary
Current Research Topics / Expertise
Grassland biodiversity; Conservation
and management of dry grasslands; Prescribed burning and fire ecology;
Succession and vegetation dynamics; Plant species introduction, Grassland
restoration, Seed banks and seed dispersal, Propagule and microsite limitation
Scientometrics
Hirsch-index on Google Scholar: 50
Citations on Google Scholar: 6458
Author of 164 scientific papers (115 papers in WoS journals, 13 other peer-reviewed papers in English, 25 peer-reviewed papers in Hungarian) and 16 book chapters (6 in English, 10 in
Hungarian)
Scopus:
35312806900
Grants and awards
2023 L’Oreal – UNESCO for Women in Science Prize
2020 Bolyai Award of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences
2018 New National Excellence - Bolyai Plus post-doctoral grant
2018 Young Scientist Award of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences
2017 Award for the Most Cited Review Paper in Basic and Applied Ecology
2017 "Woman Researcher of the Year" in the University of Debrecen
2017 Young Community Ecologist Award, 3rd prize
2017 Post-doctoral Grant of the New National Excellence Program
2017 Women in Science award in Agricultural Sciences from the HAS, UNESCO and Women in Science Association
2018 Young Scientist Award of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences
2017 Award for the Most Cited Review Paper in Basic and Applied Ecology
2017 "Woman Researcher of the Year" in the University of Debrecen
2017 Young Community Ecologist Award, 3rd prize
2017 Post-doctoral Grant of the New National Excellence Program
2017 Women in Science award in Agricultural Sciences from the HAS, UNESCO and Women in Science Association
2016 Bolyai János Scholarship of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences
2016 MTA-TIT 1st Prize for the Best Paper in the
journal Természet Világa
2016 National Youth Excellence Scholarship
2016 Scholarship of the Universitas
Foundation
2016 Young
Investigator Prize, 2nd prize for oral presentations, Eurasian Dry
Grassland Conference
2016 Tutor Scholarship, Balassi Institute, Márton
Áron Scholarship
2015 Young Investigator Prize of the Hungarian Ecological Society
2015 Campus Hungary Mobility Grant (Germany, Austria)
2014 L’Oreal – UNESCO for Women in Science
Prize
2014 Campus Hungary Mobility Grant (Russia)
2014 HAS Young Investigator Award in Environmental Protection
2013 National Excellence Program, Magyary Zoltán Postdoctoral Scholarship
2013 National Excellence Program, Magyary Zoltán Postdoctoral Scholarship
2013 Campus Hungary Mobility Grant (Poland, Germany)
2011 TÁMOP-4.2.2/B-10/1-2010-0024
Predoctoral Scholarship
2011 Scholarship of the Universitas
Foundation
2010 Scholarship of the Mecenatúra Foundation
2009 Scholarship of the Universitas
Foundation
2007 Scholarship of the Hungarian Ministry of
Education
2006 Summer scholarship of the University of Debrecen,
Faculty of Science and Technology
2006 Demonstrator scholarship of the University
of Debrecen, Faculty of Science and Technology
2006 Pro Regione scholarship of the Hajdúsági
Agráripari Rt.
2005 Pro
Renovanda Cultura Hungariae Scholarship
Research projects
2022-2027 'Élvonal' Forefront Research Excellence project, 'Grassland restoration based on nature-based solutions in agricultural landscapes: drivers at micro- and macro-scales' (Grant Agreemen Number: KKP 144096; principal investigator)
2019-2024: 'Lendület' Seed Ecology Research Group, 'Seed-based ecosystem engineering for supporting diverse and resilient ecosystems' (research group leader)
2022-2026: Sustainable Development and Technologies National Programme of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences (FFT NP FTA), principal investigator in the sub-project Sustainable Cities
2022-2024: ReNatUrE - Restoration of urban ecosystems for biodiverse, liveable, and sustainable cities in Europe; project funded by the Pancivis Foundation; co-principal investigator
2022-2026: National Laboratory for Health Security, Invasion Biology Division; leader of WP2 - Dispersal mechanisms of invasive species
2022-2024: 'Nature at home: Supporting native plant species in urban gardens' (Grant Agreement Number: NKFI MEC_N 140750; principal investigator)
2018: Three months ERC mobility grant (ERC-16-M-127070) to the ERC BIODESERT Group, Universidad Rey Juan Carlos in Móstoles, Spain
2017-2019: Hungarian Research Grant; 'Seed bank and community assembly in grassland dynamics' (Grant Agreement Number: NKFI KH 126476, principal investigator)
2017-2021: Hungarian Research Grant; ‘Plant diversity in fragmented rural landscapes – Linear elements and human-mediated dispersal’ (Grant Agreement Number: NKFI FK 124404, principal investigator)
2018-2020: Hungarian Research Grant; ‘The role of habitat and landscape factors in grassland community assembly’ (Grant Agreement Number: NKFI KH 130338, senior researcher)
2017-2019: Hungarian Research Grant; 'Seed bank and community assembly in grassland dynamics' (Grant Agreement Number: NKFI KH 126476, principal investigator)
2017-2021: Hungarian Research Grant; ‘Plant diversity in fragmented rural landscapes – Linear elements and human-mediated dispersal’ (Grant Agreement Number: NKFI FK 124404, principal investigator)
2018-2020: Hungarian Research Grant; ‘The role of habitat and landscape factors in grassland community assembly’ (Grant Agreement Number: NKFI KH 130338, senior researcher)
2014-2017:
Hungarian Research Grant; ‘The role of species pool, seed banks and
plant traits in grassland dynamics’ (Grant Agreement Number: PD111807, principal investigator)
2014-2015:
Deutsche Bundesstiftung Umwelt; ‘Pro-SEED - Large-scale grassland
restoration: the use of establishment windows and
high diversity seeding by the knowledge transfer of regional seed
propagation to Hungary’ (participant)
2013-2014:
Internal Research Grant of the University of Debrecen ‘Propagule and
microsite limitation in grassland dynamics by seed addition and biomass
removal experiments’ (principal investigator)
Educational expertise
Secretary (2013-2019), lecturer
and supervisor in the Juhász Nagy Pál Doctorate School
Lectures for
gradual students: Conservation Biology BSc, Conservation Biology MSc, Nature Conservation,
Ecological knowledge of terrestrial plants BSc, Methods in Ecology BSc, Grassland Ecology MSc, Ecology MSc, Basic Ecology BSc, Conservation Biology BSc (guest
lecturer, Babes-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca)
Currently supervisor of 3 PhD students; 2 PhD students already graduated.
Other scientific activities
– Main organizer, 18th Eurasian Grassland Conference, https://www.egc2023.hu/
– Working group leader, EASAC WG on Wildfires in Europe
– Working group leader, EASAC WG on Regenerative Agriculture
– Main organizer, Reproductive Strategies from Genes to Societies - Frontiers in Plant and Animal Reproduction Research international symposium
– Head of the Scientific Secretariat, HUN-REN Centre for Ecological Research (2022-)
– Rapporteur at the World Science Forum (2019)
– Participant at the GYA-IAP Science Leadership Workshop (2019)
– Member of HAS Ecological Scientific Committee
– Member, HAS Debrecen, Ecological Working Group and Botany Working Group
– Secretary, Juhász Nagy Pál Doctorate School (2013-2019)
– Chair and organizer of ‘The role of fire in ecosystem dynamics
– From fire ecology to prescribed burning management’ and ‘Soil seed banks and seed dispersal -
Promising sources for restoration’ Special Sessions in the SER 2016 conference (Freising, 22-26 August,
2016)
– Member of the Organizing Committee of the workshop ‘Conservation of
grassland biodiversity in Hungary’ organized by HAS KÖTEB (Budapest, 14 April 2016)
– Organizer of the ‘Large-scale grassland restoration: high diversity
seeding and knowledge transfer of regional seed propagation to Hungary’
workshop (Hortobágy, 9-10, April 2015) supported by the Deutsche Bundesstiftung
Umwelt
– Chair and organiser of the session ‘Local and landscape-scale effects
in the recovery of grassland biodiversity’ in the European Conference on
Ecological Restoration (Oulu, 3-8 August 2014)
– Chair and organiser of the session ‘Conservation and restoration of
grassland biodiversity at multiple scales’ in the Conference of Grasslands -
Ecology, Management and Restoration (Hildesheim, 28 September – 3 October 2013)
– Member of
the Salvia Environmental and Nature Protection Association; organizing and
giving lectures for students, coordinating grassland restoration and management
projects on kurgans, coordinating volunteers.
Editorial board memberships
– Associate Editor, Biological Conservation, Applied Vegetation Science, Community Ecology
– Guest editor-in-chief of the Special Feature of Hacquetia, edited by the Eurasian Dry Grassland Group (2016-)
– Speciality Chief Editor, Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, Section Conservation and Restoration (2021-2022)
– Guest editor of the Featured Issue ‘Seed banks and seed dispersal’ in Restoration Ecology (2017)
– Member of the Editorial Board in the journals Tuexenia, Palaearctic Grasslands, Air, Soil and Water ResearchReviewer activity
Acta Botanica Hungarica, Acta Oecologica, Agriculture, Ecosystems & Environment; Agricultural Systems, Applied Ecology and Environmental Research, Applied Vegetation Science, Austral Ecology, African Journal of Agricultural Research, Biodiversity & Conservation; Biological Conservation, CABI Agriculture, Community Ecology, Ecological Complexity, Ecological Engineering, Flora, Functional Ecology, Grassland Science, Hacquetia, Insect Conservation and Diversity, International Journal of Ecology, Journal for Nature Conservation, Journal of Applied Ecology, Journal of Arid Environments, Journal of Vegetation Science, Land, Land Degradation and Development, Nature Communications, Nordic Journal of Botany, Notulae Botanicae Horti Agrobotanici Cluj-Napoca, Plant and Soil, Plant Ecology and Diversity, PLoS ONE, Restoration Ecology, Science of the Total Environment, Scientific Reports, Sustainability, Trends in Ecology and Evolution, Tuexenia
Sentinel of Science Award from Publons in 2016
Top Reviewers Award in Environmental
Science and Ecology in 2018
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