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​I am a spatial ecologist interested in mechanisms that shape the distribution of life on Earth. I draw from a variety of quantitative ecological tools including population dynamics, spatial demography and ecological niche modelling.
Visit my lab's website at the Hungarian University of Agriculture and Life Sciences.

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Positions

• Associate Professor, Department of Botany, Hungarian University of Agriculture and Life Sciences, Budapest, Hungary (2018-)
• Research Fellow, with Prof. Yvonne Buckley, School of Natural Sciences, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland (2014-2018)
• Research Associate, with Prof. Amy Angert, Department of Botany, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada (2012 – 2014)
• Visiting Scientist, with Prof. Roy Turkington, Department of Botany, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada (2010 – 2012)
• Assistant Professor, Department of Horticulture, Sapientia Hungarian University of Transylvania, Romania (2006-2013)
• Conservation Biologist, Environmental Protection Agency of Harghita County, Romania (2004-2006)
• Researcher, Curator and Collection manager, Herbarium of Babeş-Bolyai University, Romania (2000 – 2004)

Research Grants and Fellowships

• 2019                  Bolyai+ early career teaching&research fellowship (ÚNKP), Hungarian Ministry of Innovation and Technology                                   (€5,900)
• 2019                  Bolyai János research fellowship, Hungarian Academy of Science (€13,000)
• 2015                  Marie Sklodowska-Curie Individual Fellowship (€187,866)
• 2013                  Conservation grant received from Native Plant Society of British Columbia, Canada ($4,000)
• 2007                 Conservation grant received from Rufford Small Grants for Nature Conservation, England (£5,000)
• 2001 – 2008    Doctoral research fellowships, Domus Hungarica Scientiarum et Artium Scheme, Hungarian Academy of                                         Sciences (€1,300)