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On 12 November 2025, as part of the Hungarian Science Festival series, the Hungarian Young Academy (FKA) organised a scientific lecture session. Among the speakers was Réka Lukács, Scientific Advisor at the HUN-REN CSFK Institute for Geological and Geochemical Research and head of our research group.
On 11 October 2025, to mark the Hungarian Geotope Day, János Szepesi organised a thematic hiking tour along the Blue Trail section between Mogyoróska and Háromhuta. The programme focused on introducing the volcanic rocks of the area and the geological processes associated with them.
Representing our research group, Szabolcs Harangi gave an invited lecture in the “Geological Evenings” public lecture series at Babeș–Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca, on 20 May 2025.
The title of the talk was:“Understanding volcanoes: the role of volcanology in the 21st century.”
The lecture addressed recent advances in volcanology, the scientific and societal relevance of volcano research, and the role of studies carried out on the volcanoes of the Carpathian–Pannonian Region.
On 26 May 2025, Szabolcs Harangi and Réka Lukács delivered invited lectures at the University of Bucharest within the framework of the GeoTalks seminar series.
Their presentations focused on the Neogene–Quaternary volcanism of the Carpathian–Pannonian Region and the magma reservoir system of Ciomad volcano.
The talks attracted considerable interest and were followed by lively discussion and excellent questions from the audience.
The submarine trachytic lobe–hyaloclastite complex of the Caldera of Taburiente (La Palma, Canary Islands) is the first lobe–hyaloclastite felsic complex to be described on an oceanic island in an intraplate setting. The felsic formation comprises three facies associations—(1) coherent facies: trachytic lobes with porphyritic, aphanitic, or glass trachytes; (2) autoclastic facies: hyaloclastites and autobreccias; and (3) syn-eruptive resedimented facies: mono- and polymictic breccias (massive or graded)—and volcaniclastic sandstones and breccias.
Our new paper has also been featured in the HUN-REN news.
We are very proud of this work and of its lead author, Emese Pánczél, who achieved this remarkable result while still an MSc student.
We are pleased to announce that Boglárka Mercédesz Kis ([link to her page]) has joined our research group, broadening the scope of our studies. With her expertise, our activities now also expand into the monitoring of volcanic gases, contributing to ongoing research on the Ciomadul volcanic area.
Starting this year, Boglárka also continues her work as a Bolyai Research Fellow, affiliated with the Department of Petrology and Geochemistry, Eötvös Loránd University (ELTE) and our group.
We are pleased to report the success of the 15th Assembly of Petrology and Geochemistry (15. APG), organized this year by our research group, which brought together more than eighty participants. In addition to Hungarian researchers, experts from seven countries, Slovakia, Romania, Croatia, the Czech Republic, the Netherlands, Austria, and Hungary, represented their institutions at the event.
Emese Pánczél, a member of our research group, participated in the training school “’Convective and Volcanic Clouds (CVC) detecting, monitoring and modeling”, organized by researchers from the CIMA Foundation (Italy), the Istituto Nazionale di Geofisica e Vulcanologia (Italy), and the Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche (Italy).
The training took place on Vulcano Island, Sicily, between 23 September and 1 October 2025. The short course was supported by EGU, IUGG, MEET, ASI, and AIV.
Réka Lukács and Szabolcs Harangi represented our research group at the TOPO-EUROPE Workshop, held between 30 September and 3 October 2025.
TOPO-EUROPE is an international, multidisciplinary research initiative focusing on the evolution and dynamics of Europe’s topography. During the workshop, our group contributed with one oral presentation and two poster presentations, and actively engaged in the developing professional network related to the EUROBIG COST project, led by Taras Gerya (ETH Zürich) and Pietro Sternai (University of Milano-Bicocca).