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Máté Szemerédi

Szemerédi Máté
PhD
Senior Lecturer
szemeredi.mate.andras [at] szte.hu
szemeredi.mate [at] gmail.com
SZTE TTIK FFI, Room No. 1/1321
Place and date of birth
Szentes, 1993
Qualifications
2020: PhD, Doctoral School of Geosciences, University of Szeged, University of Szeged. Title: Results of the complex analyses of the Gyűrűfű Rhyolite Formation in the Tisza Mega-unit (Hungary).
2016: MSc in Earth Science, University of Szeged
2014: BSc in Earth Science, University of Szeged
Employment
2024-: Department of Geology, Institute of Geography and Earth Sciences, University of Szeged, senior lecturer
2023-2024: Department of Mineralogy, Geochemistry and Petrology, Institute of Geography and Earth Sciences, University of Szeged, senior lecturer
2021-2023: Department of Mineralogy, Geochemistry and Petrology, Institute of Geography and Earth Sciences, University of Szeged, assistant research fellow
2020-2024: MTA-ELTE Volcanology Research Group, assistant research fellow
Language knowledge
english, advanced proficiency
spanish, intermediate proficiency
Main fields of research
igneous petrology and geochemistry, zircon U-Pb geochronology, local and regional correlation of igneous rocks, fossilized magma reservoirs, volcanology, terroir geology
Research projects

2024-2025: EKÖP postdoctoral scholarship (EKÖP-24-4-SZTE-633). Title: Variscan S-type granitoids in the Tisza Mega-unit: petrology, geochemistry, geochronology and correlation.

2020-2024: NKFIH K 135179 project, participant. PI: Szabolcs Harangi (HUN-REN-ELTE Volcanology Research Group). Title: From crystal mush to volcanic eruption.

2020-2021: ÚNKP predoctoral scholarship (ÚNKP-20-4-SZTE-596). Title: Complex analyses of the Battonya (SE Hungary) and the Highiş granitoids (Apuseni Mts) in the Tisza Mega-unit.

2019-2023: NKFIH K 131690 project, participant. PI: Elemér Pál-Molnár (Department of Mineralogy, Geochemistry and Petrology, Institute of Geography and Earth Sciences, University of Szeged). Title: Permo-Carboniferous to Triassic evolution of the Tisza Mega-unit: correlation studies between the eastern Pannonian Basin (SE Hungary) and the Apuseni Mts (Romania).
 

2018-2019: ÚNKP doctoral scholarship (ÚNKP-18-3-I-SZTE-90). Title: Permian volcanism in the Apuseni Mts (Tisza Mega-unit) and Central Transdanubia (Alcapa Mega-unit).

Membership of scientific and professional organizations
2024-: Szeged-Regional Committee of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Committee of Earth and Environmental Sciences, member
2023-: Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Scientific Committee of Geology, Subcommittee of Stratigraphy, secretary
2021-: Hungarian Academy of Sciences, public board member
2019-2024: Hungarian Geological Society, Youth Committee, member
2018-2020: AAPG Szeged Student Chapter, vice-president
2018-: EGU, member
2016-: Hungarian Geological Society, member
2015-2018: AAPG Szeged Student Chapter, secretary
2014-2020: AAPG Szeged Student Chapter, founding member
Conference organization
2019: 10th Assembly of Petrology and Geochemistry, organizer
2016: 4th AAPG Student Chapter Leadership Days, organizer
Research grants, scholarships
2024-2025: EKÖP postdoctoral scholarship (EKÖP-24-4-SZTE-633)
2020-2021: ÚNKP predoctoral scholarship (ÚNKP-20-4-SZTE-596)
2019: Campus Mundi scholarship for short-term studies (CM-SMR/310731/2019)
2018-2019: ÚNKP doctoral scholarship (ÚNKP-18-3-I-SZTE-90)
2018: Campus Mundi scholarship for short-term studies (CM-SMR/292858/2018)
2015-2016: Erasmus+ scholarship (Uniwersytet Wrocławski, Poland)
Awards
2021: Kálmán Szepesházy Award of the Hungarian Geological Society
2019: 3rd award, poster session, 10th Assembly of Petrology and Geochemistry
2014: 3rd award, poster session, 5th Assembly of Petrology and Geochemistry
Prizes won at scientific competitions
2016: 1st award, Scientific Students’ Associations Conference, Geography–Geology session, University of Szeged
2014: 3rd award, Scientific Students’ Associations Conference, Geography–Geology session, University of Szeged
Teaching
Institute of Geography and Earth Sciences, University of Szeged: Geodynamics (lecture, BSc), Mineralogy (lecture and practice, BSc), Geological field trip (Mecsek Mts, Transylvania, BSc), Igneous and metamorphic petrology (lecture and practice, BSc), Geol
International connections

Department of Sedimentology and Environmental Geology, Geoscience Center, University of Göttingen

Institute of Geodynamics Sabba S. Ştefanescu, Romanian Academy

Croatian Geological Survey

Selected publications of the last 5 years

Cserép B., Szemerédi M., Harangi Sz., Saskia E., Bachmann O., Dunkl I., Seghedi I., Mészáros K., Kovács Z., Virág A., Ntaflos T., Schiller D., Kata M. & 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, 96., https://doi.org/10.1007/s00410-023-02075-z

Szemerédi M., Varga A., Lukács R., Dunkl I., Seghedi I., Tatu M., Kovács Z., Raucsik B., Benkó Zs., Harangi Sz. & Pál-Molnár E. (2023): Large-volume Permian felsic volcanism in the Tisza Mega-unit (East-Central Europe): Evidence from mineralogy, petrology, geochemistry, and geochronology. LITHOS 456-457, 107330., https://doi.org/10.1016/j.lithos.2023.107330

Szemerédi M., Varga A., Dunkl I., Lukács R., Seghedi I., Kovács Z., Raucsik B. & Pál-Molnár E. (2021): Petrology and zircon U–Pb dating of granitoid rocks in the Highiş massif (SW Apuseni Mts, Romania): insights into Permian plutonic–volcanic connections. GEOLOGICA CARPATHICA 72, pp. 482-504., https://doi.org/10.31577/GeolCarp.72.6.3

Szemerédi M., Varga A., Szepesi J., Pál-Molnár E. & Lukács R.: Lavas or ignimbrites? Permian felsic volcanic rocks of the Tisza Mega-unit (SE Hungary) revisited: A petrographic study. CENTRAL EUROPEAN GEOLOGY 63(1), pp. 1-18., https://doi.org/10.1556/24.2020.00003

Szemerédi M., Lukács R., Varga A., Dunkl I., Józsa S., Tatu M., Pál-Molnár E., Szepesi J., Guillong M., Szakmány Gy., Harangi Sz. (2020): Permian felsic volcanic rocks in the Pannonian Basin (Hungary): new petrographic, geochemical and geochronological results. INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF EARTH SCIENCES 109, pp. 101-125., https://doi.org/10.1007/s00531-019-01791-x

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