Curriculum vitae

I. Personal data

Born: October 5, 1969, Miercurea Ciuc, Harghita County, Romania
Address: 400342 Cluj-Napoca, Gheorghe Dima str. 37/17., Romania
Employment: Lecturer, Babeş-Bolyai University, Faculty of Biology and Geology, Department of Taxonomy and Ecology (Cluj-Napoca, Romania)
Marital status: married
Telephone: +40264520326, +40746301306
E-mail: [email protected]

II. Studies

• 1983-1987: high-school, Mathemathics and Physics High-School (currently “Márton Áron” Theoretical High-School), Biology-Chemistry profile (Miercurea Ciuc, Romania);
• 1989-1994: B.Sc. in Biology, Babeş-Bolyai University, Faculty of Biology and Geology (Cluj-Napoca, Romania).
• 1995-2001: Ph.D., Babeş-Bolyai University, Faculty of Biology and Geology, Department of Zoology, Taxonomy and Ecology Ph.D.-program (Cluj-Napoca, Romania). The Ph.D.-thesis was defended in June 2001. The title of the thesis: Cercetări asupra trichopterelor din Grupa Centrală a Carpaţilor Orientali (Studies on the Trichoptera (Insecta) communities from the Central Group of the Eastern Carpathians). Scientific supervisor: prof. dr. Nicolae Tomescu.

 III. Scientific career

•  1994-1997: preparator, Department of Zoology, Faculty of Biology and Geology, Babeş-Bolyai University (Cluj-Napoca, Romania);
• 1997-2000: assistant lecturer, Department of Zoology (later on Department of Taxonomy and Ecology), Faculty of Biology and Geology, Babeş-Bolyai University (Cluj-Napoca, Romania);
• 2000- ...: lecturer, Department of Taxonomy and Ecology, Faculty of Biology and Geology, Babeş-Bolyai University (Cluj-Napoca, Romania).

 IV. Research domain: taxonomy of aquatic insects, phylogeography, stream ecology, biodiversity and distribution of crane flies (Diptera, Tipuloidea)

 V. Scientific activity

•  1994-1995: member of the “Criş/Körös” research program, run by Liga Pro Europa (Tîrgu-Mureş, RO) and Club Tisza (Szolnok, HU), project coordinator dr. Sárkány-Kiss Andrei (Department of Ecology, UBB, Cluj, Romania).
• 1995-1997: member of the “Biodiversity studies of the Cheile Turzii, Cheile Tureni and Scăriţa Belioara Protected Areas” research program (M.E.N., M.E.C.), project coordinator dr. Nicolae Tomescu (Department of Zoology, UBB, Cluj, Romania)
• 1996: member of the “Someş/Szamos River II” research program run by Heinrich Böll Fund (Germany) and Liga Pro Europa Tîrgu Mureş (Romania), project coordinator dr. Sárkány-Kiss Andrei (Department of Ecology, UBB, Cluj, Romania).
• 1997: member of the “Biodiversity studies on Poşaga area” research program (M.E.N., M.E.C., 68/437/1997), project coordinator dr. Nicolae Tomescu (Department of Zoology, UBB, Cluj, Romania).
• 1998: member of the “Biodiversity studies on the Someşului Cald: Ic Ponor protected areas” research program (M.E.N., M.E.C., 22/84/1998), project coordinator dr. Nicolae Tomescu (Department of Zoology, UBB, Cluj, Romania).
• 1998: member of the “Biodiversity studies on the Cheile Someşului Cald area” research program (M.E.N., M.E.C. 17/128/1998), project coordinator dr. Nicolae Tomescu (Department of Zoology, UBB, Cluj, Romania).
• 1999: coordinator of the “Complex program of forming and modeling the biology teaching ability in the scholar curricula” project run by Soros Fund for an Open Society (220/1999) (Iaşi, Romania).
• 2000-2003: member of the “Risk assessment of cyanide-leaking during gold extraction procedures on the environmental conditions of Central Asia and Central Europe (subtopic: The risk assessment of river ecosystems, the pathways of harmful solutions in food webs and in the life cycle of water organism)” research program, Inco Copernicus Project ICA2-1999-10065, Romania.
• 2000: member of the “Biodiversity studies of the natural ecosystems on the Podişul Someşan area: Cluj Hills and Dej Hills” research program (M.E.N., M.E.C., 52/379/2000), project coordinator dr. Nicolae Tomescu (Department of Zoology, UBB, Cluj, Romania).
• 2001-2002: coordinator of the “Relationships between the pollution of the Transylvanian running waters and supportability of freshwater organisms: study on recovering possibility of the polluted sectors” research program run by Sapientia Fund’s Research Institute (Cluj-Napoca, RO).
• 2001-2002: member of the “Establishment and planning of the “După Luncă” Protected Area near Voşlobeni” research program, project coordinator Macalik Kunigunda (Department of Ecology, UBB, Cluj) run by Environmental Partnership Foundation, Miercurea Ciuc, Romania.
• 2002-2003: coordinator of the “Biodiversity and bioindication of the communities of Tipulomorpha from wetlands with relict character” research program. The project was supported by the Arany János Fund for Scientific Research of the Hungarian Academy of Science, Budapest, Hungary.
• 2003: coordinator of “The importance of computer-based data processing and database building in the analysis of distribution of different insect groups” research program, financed by the Sapientia Fund’s Research Institute at the Department of Zoology, Babeş-Bolyai University (Cluj-Napoca, Romania).
• 2003: member of the “Biodiversity studies of the natural ecosystems in the Arieşului Valley area” research program (M.E.N., M.E.C.), project coordinator dr. Alexandru Crişan (Department of Zoology, UBB, Cluj, Romania).
• 2003: member of the “Mapping the endemic and rare species from the Arieş Valley” research program (M.E.N., M.E.C.), project coordinator dr. Ioan Coroiu (Department of Zoology, UBB, Cluj, Romania).
• 2004: member of the “Studies on Ecedea Marsh, Vlăştinescu, Tăul lui Dumitru, Poiana printre brazi, Hoteni, Iezerul Mare, Chendroaie, Lacul Morărenilor, Tăul Negru Marshy Areas” research program, project coordinator: Szántó László (WWF Romania) in a frame of the „One Europe More Nature” project 8W006.1/2004 run by WWF Austria.
• 2004-2006: member of the “Qualitative changes in the Arieş Valley due to anthropogenic influences” research program (MENER 515/2004), project coordinator: dr. Sárkány-Kiss Andrei (Department of Taxonomy and Ecology, UBB, Cluj, Romania).
• 2005-2008: member of the “Development of complex ecological and biomonitoring assessment methods of the qualitative changes of the Someş Basin’s ecosystems” research program (CEEX Research Projects – Complex Development, PC-D06-PT25-293), project coordinator: dr. Sárkány-Kiss Andrei (Department of Taxonomy and Ecology, UBB, Cluj, Romania).
• 2006-2008: coordinator of the “Romanian Carpathians: speciation centers or barriers during postglacial speciation and isolation processes in the case of specific insect groups, morphometrical and molecular evidences” research program, financed by the Romanian National University Research Council (C.N.C.S.I.S., grant no. 31/1342) at the Department of Taxonomy and Ecology, Babeş-Bolyai University (Cluj-Napoca, RO).
• 2007-2008: member of the “Studies on taxonomy, ecology and genetics of some important species of insects and their habitats” research program, financed by the Romanian National University Research Council (C.N.C.S.I.S. nr. 26/1445), project coordinator dr. Rákosy László (Department of Taxonomy and Ecology, Babeş-Bolyai University (Cluj-Napoca, RO).
• 2007-2009: member of the “Differentiation and speciation of selected insect groups in the Carpathian Area” research program (CEEX/552), project coordinator: dr. Rákosy László (Department of Taxonomy and Ecology, Babeş-Bolyai University (Cluj-Napoca, RO).

VI. Teaching activity

at the “Babeş-Bolyai” University, Faculty of Biology and Geology:

• Invertebrate Zoology course and lab course (B.Sc., compulsory, 1^st semester)
• Biogeography course and seminar (B.Sc., compulsory, 4^th semester)
• Biomonitoring of freshwaters course and lab course (M. Sc., compulsory, 1^st semester)
• Biogeography of the flora and fauna of Europe seminar (M. Sc., compulsory, 1^st semester)

VII. Scientific honours

Research scholarships

• February 2007: NL-TAF 2437, Synthesys EU FP6 research fellowship, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, University of Amsterdam, Institute of Taxonomic Zoology, Department of Entomology
• October 2007: AT-TAF 3672, Synthesys EU FP6 research fellowship, Wien, Austria, Natural History Museum (NHMW)

VIII. Important scientific results

New species to the science:

• Pedicia (Crunobia) apusenica Ujvarosi et Stary, 2003
• Idiocera (Euptilostena) paulsi Stary et Ujvarosi, 2005

IX. Membership (Professional Societies / Editorial Board of Scientific Journals)

Societies:

• “Apáthy István” Association (Cluj-Napoca, RO)
• Hungarian Entomological Society (Budapest, HU)
• Romanian Lepidopterological Society (Cluj-Napoca, RO)
• Transylvanian Museum Association (Cluj-Napoca, RO)

Journals:

• 2002-.... member of the referee board of Trichopteron. Bulletin of the Trichopterological Section of the Polish Entomological Society
• 2008-....: member of the referee board of Buletin de Informare Entomologică journal edited by the Romanian Lepidopterological Society

X. Language skills

• Hungarian – mother tongue
• Romanian – fluent
• English – fluent
• German – basic