Curriculum vitae

I. Personal data:

Born: 17. April 1958, Corund, Harghita county, Romania
Address: RO-410468 Oradea, Bihor county, str. Episcop Ioan Suciu nr. 10, PB4 ap. 17
Telephone: +40-359-402989, +40-771-137990
Employment: research fellow, Ţării Crişurilor Museum, Oradea, Romania
Work address: RO-410464 Oradea, Muzeul Ţării Crişurilor, B-dul Dacia 1-3, Romania
Work Phone: +40-0259-412724
E-mail: [email protected]

II. Studies

• 1977–1981: B.Sc., Biology, "Babeş-Bolyai" University, Cluj-Napoca, Romania
• 1992–1996: Ph.D., "Babeş-Bolyai" University, Faculty of Biology-Geography-Geology Cluj-Napoca, Romania. The thesis was defended in 1996. The title of the thesis: Originea şi evoluţia faunelor de ofidieni din zona Ţării Crişurilor (Origin and evolution of ophidian faunas from the Ţării Crişurilor area). Scientific supervisors: Prof. Dr. Bogdan Stugren, Prof. Dr. Nicolae Tomescu.

III. Scientific career

• 1981–1988: biology teacher at Grammar School no. 16, Oradea, Romania
• 1988–1995: museolog at the Department of Life Sciences of the Ţara Crişurilor Museum, curator of the Vertebrate Collection, Oradea, Romania
• 1996–... : research fellow at the Department of Life Sciences of the Ţara Crişurilor Museum, head of the Department, Oradea, Romania
• 2002–... : invited lecturer at the "Babeş-Bolyai" University, Faculty of Biology and Geology, Geology specialization, Hungarian line of study

IV. Scientific area: paleontology of amphibians and reptiles
Research topics: Late Cretaceous-, Neogene- and Quaternary Lissamphibia and squamate reptiles

V. Participation in research projects and grants:

• 1993–1997: member of the research project: Early Biharian microvertebrate faunas of Hungary and Romania, financed by OTKA, Hungary
• 1999–2002: member of the research project: Vertebrate paleontological investigations of Miocene nonmarine sediments from Northern Hungary, financed by OTKA, Hungary
• 2004–2007: member of the research project: Vertebrate paleontological investigations of Miocene terrestrial sediments from Northern Hungary, financed by OTKA, Hungary

VI. Teaching activity

at the "Babeş-Bolyai" University, Faculty of Biology and Geology, Geology, Hungarian line of study:

• Paleontology I. (B.Sc. level, compulsory, 1st term)
• Paleoecology (B.Sc. level, compulsory, 2nd term)

VII. Scientific honours

Research scholarships

• 2003: EU-IHP research grant, MNCN, Madrid, Spain
• 2005: Synthesys EU-FP6 research grant, MNCN, Madrid, Spain

Scientific prizes

• 1998–2000: Bolyai János research scholarship of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest, Hungary
• 2007: Prize of Excellency of the Municipal Council of Oradea, Oradea, Romania

VIII. Important scientific results

• identification and description of new land salamanders from Polgárdi (Parahynobius kordosi), and Osztramos (cf. Parahynobius), Hungary and Betfia (Parahynobius betfianus), Romania
• description of new Upper Cretaceous frogs from the Haţeg Basin, Romania (Hatzegobatrachus grigorescui and Paralatonia transsilvanica)
• identification and description of new Middle Miocene frogs (Palaeobatrachus hiri and Pelobates sanchizi) and late Miocene snakes (Coronella miocaenica and Elaphe szyndlari) from the Carpathian Basin
• description of the geologically youngest albanerpetontid (A. pannonicus) from the Pliocene of Csarnóta, Hungary
• investigation of new Middle Miocene vertebrate localities from Bihor county, Romania (Tăşad, Stracoş, Subpiatră)

IX. Other academic activities

• editor of the Nymphaea – Folia Naturae Bihariae scientific journal of the Ţării Crişurilor Museum, Oradea, Romania

X. Language skills:

• Hungarian – mother tongue
• Romanian – fluent
• English – good