About
Biomonitoring, biostratigraphy, foraminifera
Katalin Báldi has more then thirty years in micropaleontology and related fields.
2015 January – Part time senior lecturer at ELTE (Eötvös Univerity Budapest), Department of Physical and Applied Geology. Tenure track position.
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Teaching geology related subjects and oceanology
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Occasional micropaleontology consultation for oil companies through university (Oil & Gas Development)
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Teaching at an alternative high school in Budapest and abroad at universities (Prague, Bratislava) with Erasmus
2012 - 2015 February - Assistant Lecturer (part time tenure track position) Eötvös Univerity Budapest, Department of Physical and Applied Geology.
2008 - 2012 free lanced
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consultant micropaleontologist in the oil industry for RAG Hungary Ltd and Horizon Hungary Ltd resulting in reports reconstructing paleoenvironment and giving biostratigraphic controll based on benthic and planktic foraminifera. Find reports in publication list.
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Independent expert evaluating proposals for FP7: FP7-ENERGY-2009 (CCS: CO2 capture and storage) and FP7-PEOPLE-IEF-IIF-IOF-2010 participating panel meetings in Brussels
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teaching Marine Science at Eötvös Univerity Budapest
2004 - 2007 Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Vienna, Dept. Paleontology, Micropaleontology Research Group, project. Project (FWF P16793-B06): "Environmental Changes in the Middle Miocene". Member of a research group as a forminifera specialist.
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2004 – 2005 participant of EU PROPER courses on climate proxies (Barcelona, Southampton, Bratislava etc.)
2001 - 2004 Hungarian National Science Foundation (OTKA D42191) Post Doctoral Scholarship provides support at the Department of Physical and Historical Geology, Eötvös University Budapest. ”Paleoecology and stable isotope (d18O, d13C) analyses of Badenian (Mid-Miocene) foraminifera: Paratethys paleoecology and paleoclimate”
1993 - 2001 - PhD Eötvös University Budapest “Quantitative paleoecology, taxonomy and stable isotope composition of Badenian foraminifera (Hungary): subsidence history, ecophenotypic variation and paleoceanography” (in English).
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half of the time spent at State University Utrecht financed by Peregrinatio, Soros Foundation, Hungarian Grant Committee). Also in Switzerland participated a MICROPAL Training Course 2 weeks (World Bank)
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1997 invited to work on an Israeli Research Vessel rented by the Utrecht University on the Mediterranean taking live foraminifera and sediment samples from boxcores
1988-1993 MSc in Geology Eötvös University Budapest. Thesis: “Foraminifers in surficial sediments along two transects across the Norwegian Channel and the quantitativ micropalaeontological analyses of Rhône Delta Core 128 based on benthic foraminiferans”
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1991 – 1992 as an undergraduate TEMPUS individual mobility grant holder in the Netherlands studying micropaleontology and oceanography (12 months) at Utrecht State University and Free University Amsterdam
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1992 serving on board of Research Vessel Tyro on the Indian Ocean part of Dutch expedition (NIOP)
Language skills: Near-native speaker of English and good writing skills. I speak passable Dutch. Reading: Dutch, French, Russian and German technical texts.
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Find Katalin Báldi’s public science work:
https://epa.oszk.hu/02900/02930/00402/pdf/EPA02930_elet_es_tudomany_2018_37.pdf
https://epa.oszk.hu/02900/02930/00382/pdf/EPA02930_elet_es_tudomany_2018_17.pdf