Attila Virág | Pannonian Volcano Research Group

PhD

Senior Lecturer

Place and date of birth

Budapest, 1986

Qualifications

2009: Diploma in Geology, Eötvös Loránd University

2014: PhD, Doctoral School of Earth Sciences, Eötvös Loránd University

Employment

2022-: Eötvös Loránd University, Institute of Geography and Earth Sciences, Department of Petrology and Geology, assistant professor

2021-2024: University of Debrecen, Institute of Geosciences, Department of Mineralogy and Geology, assistant professor

2017-2018: Eötvös Loránd University, Institute of Historical Studies, Department of Ancient History, research fellow

2015-2022: MTA-MTM-ELTE Research Group for Paleontology, research fellow

2015: MTA-ELTE Momentum Dinosaur Research Group, research fellow

2014: Hungarian Natural History Museum, Department of Paleontology and Geology, assistant museologist

2013: MTA-MTM-ELTE Research Group for Paleontology, research assistant

2012-2013: Eötvös Loránd University, Institute of Geography and Earth Sciences, Department of Paleontology, research assistant

2011-2013: Hungarian Natural History Museum, Department of Paleontology and Geology, preparator

Language knowledge

english, intermediate proficiency

german, basic proficiency

Main fields of research

geostatistics, geometric morphometry, machine learning algorithms

Research projects

2018-2023: NKFIH FK 128741 project, principal investigator. Title: Developing a landmark based system for studying taxonomic and phylogenetic issues of vertebrates with various tooth morphologies.

2018: INQUA HABCOM 1606 project, researcher. PI: Lilia Popova (Taras Shevchenko National University, Kyiv, Ukraine), Lutz Christian Maul (Senckenberg Research Station of Quaternary Palaeontology, Weimar, Germany). Title: Ground squirrels on the march: expansion and speciation in the Quaternary of the Circum-Pontic area and surroundings.

2017-2018: OTKA NF 101755 project, researcher. PI: András Patay-Horváth (Eötvös Loránd University, Institute of Historical Studies, Department of Ancient History). Title: Identification of Classical Greek Sculptors – Master-hand Attributions by 3D-analysis.

2013: OTKA K 104506 project, researcher. PI: Piroska Pazonyi (MTA-MTM-ELTE Research Group for Paleontology). Title: Taxonomical, taphonomical, paleoecological and stratigraphical investigations of an exceptionally rich Middle Pleistocene terrestrial site (Somssich-hegy 2, Villány) in Hungary.

Membership of scientific and professional organizations

2023-2027: Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Committee on Paleontology, member

2021-2024: Hungarian Geological Society, Division of Paleontology and Stratigraphy, board member

2015-2018: Hungarian Geological Society, Division of Paleontology and Stratigraphy, board member

2015-: Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Public Body, member

2014-: INQUA Hungarian National Committee, member

2014-: Hungarian Geological Society, Division of Paleontology and Stratigraphy, member

Research grants, scholarships

2024-2027: HAS János Bolyai Research Scholarship: Machine learning methods in the service of paleontology.

2015-2017: HAS Postdoctoral Research Scholarship. Title: Paleoecology and taxonomy of Hungarian Quaternary mammals revealed by histology and tooth wear analysis.

2015: Synthesys Grant for visiting the Natural History Museum of Paris.

2013: Sepkoski Grant of the Paleontological Society.

Selected publications of the last 5 years

Lodowski, D.G., Szives, O., Virág, A. & Grabowski, J. (2024): The latest Jurassic–earliest Cretaceous climate and oceanographic changes in the Western Tethys: The Transdanubian Range (Hungary) perspective. SEDIMENTOLOGY, pp. 1-30., https://doi.org/10.1111/sed.13194

Cserép, B., Szemerédi, M., Harangi, S., Erdmann, S., Bachmann, O., Dunkl, I., Seghedi, I., Mészáros, K., Kovács, Z., Virág, A., Ntaflos, T., Schiller, D., Molnár, K. & Lukács, R. (2023): Constraints on the pre-eruptive magma storage conditions and magma evolution of the 56-30 ka explosive volcanism of Ciomadul (East Carpathians, Romania). CONTRIBUTIONS TO MINERALOGY AND PETROLOGY 178(12), pp. 1-31, https://doi.org/10.1007/s00410-023-02075-z

Virág, A. & Karádi, V. (2023): Potential of closed contour analysis for species differentiation and holotype designation: a case study on lower Norian (Upper Triassic) conodonts. PALAEONTOLOGY 66, pp. 1-17., https://doi.org/10.1111/pala.12649

Magyari, E., Gasparik, M., Major, I., Lengyel, G., Pál, I., Virág, A., Korponai, J., Haliuc, A., Szabó, Z. & Pazonyi, P. (2022): Mammal extinction facilitated biome shift and human population change during the last glacial termination in East-Central Europe. SCIENTIFIC REPORTS 12, pp. 1-14., https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-022-10714-x

Szabó, B., Pazonyi, P., Tóth, E., Magyari, E.K., Kiss, G.I., Rinyu, L., Futó, I. & Virág, A. (2020): Pleistocene and Holocene palaeoenvironmental reconstruction of the Carpathian Basin based on multiproxy analysis of cervid teeth. HISTORICAL BIOLOGY 33, pp. 3307-3325, https://doi.org/10.1080/08912963.2020.1863960

Last update

2024-11-15