Piroska Pazonyi

Research Fellow

Street address: Dept. of Paleontology and Geology, Hungarian Natural History Museum
1083 Budapest, Ludovika tér 2.
Postal address: 1431 Budapest, POB 137
Telefon: +36-1-210-1075/2308
Fax: +36-1-338-2728
Email: pazonyi(at)nhmus(dot)hu

 

Current research interest
Paleoecological and stratigraphical studies of the late Neogene and Quaternary mammalian communities in the Carpathian Basin

Scientific degree
2006 PhD, Eötvös University, Budapest

Education
1999 MSc in Geology, Eötvös University, Budapest

Employment
2008 – Research Fellow, MTA-MTM Research Group for Paleontology (from 2012 MTA-MTM-ELTE Research Group for Paleontology)
2003 – 2008 Curator, Senior Curator, Dept. of Paleontology and Geology, Hungarian Natural History Museum
2001 – 2004 PhD student, Dept. of Paleontology, Eötvös University
2000 – 2001 Eötvös University, Dept. of Mineralogy
1995 – 1997 Seismological Department, Geodetic and Geophysical Research Institute of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences

Service in scientific bodies
2003 – Member of the European Association of Vertebrate Palaeontologists
2003 – 2006 Editor, Fragmenta Palaeontologica Hungarica
1999 – Member of the Hungarian Geological Society

Teaching activities
2004 – 2005 Paleontology (Hungarian Natural History Museum, museum preparator training)
2002 – 2003 Vertebrate paleontology (invited seminars, Eötvös University, Budapest)
2001 – 2002 Vertebrate fossils, as paleoclimate indicators (invited seminars, Eötvös University, Budapest)
2001 – 2002 Vertebrate paleontology (invited seminars, Eötvös University, Budapest)

Honors and awards
2005 Elemér Szádeczky-Kardoss Prize, 1st grade, Hungarian Academy of Sciences
2003 Best PhD student talk, 6th Annual Meeting of the Hungarian Paleontologists, Hungarian Geological Society
2002 Best PhD student talk, 2nd prize, 5th Annual Meeting of the Hungarian Paleontologists, Hungarian Geological Society
1999 Pál Kriván Award, Hungarian Geological Society
1999 2nd prize, theoretical category, oral presentation, Meeting of Young Geoscientists, Association of Hungarian Geophycists, Hungarian Geological Society
1999 2nd prize, poster category, 2nd Annual Meeting of the Hungarian Paleontologists, Hungarian Geological Society