Contacts

Place and date of birth

Nagykanizsa, 1979

Qualifications

2009, PhD Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest.
2003, MSc in Geology, Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest.

Employment

2014- : Institute for Geological and Geochemical Research, HAS, Budapest, Hungary
2013-2014: ETH Zürich, Zürich, Switzerland (SCIEX postdoctoral fellowship)
2005-2013: Institute for Geochemical Research, HAS, Budapest, Hungary
2004-2005: SCK·CEN (Belgian Nuclear Research Centre), MOL, Belgium (MÖB scholarship)
2003-2004: Laboratory for Geochemical Research, Hungarian Academy of Sciences (HAS), Budapest, Hungary

Language knowledge

English, B2
German, B2
Italian, B1

Main fields of research

Stable- and clumped isotope geochemistry of carbonates
Study of recent travertine depositing hot spring systems, calcite-water and aragonite-water oxygen isotope fractionation and calibration issues
Paleoclimatology (based on travertines, tufas and speleothems)
Geochemistry of dolomites, soil carbonates, tree rings, …

Research projects

K-137767 (NKFI) (2021-2025) Paleosol carbonate-based clumped isotope temperatures and atmospheric CO₂ concentrations over the Paleocene-Eocene global warming period in northern Spain (PI)
NKM 2023-11 (Joint research project between MTA, Hungary and CNR, Italy) (2023-2025) High-resolution isotope chronostratigraphy from travertine deposits of Tivoli (Italy) and Tata (Hungary). (PI)
KH-125584 (NKFI) (2017-2020). Reconstruction of palaeotemperature based on stable- and clumped isotope geochemistry of freshwater carbonates (PI)
Travertine Reservoir Analogue Studies (TraRAS), (2014-2017). Project leader: Rudy Swennen, KU Leuven, Belgium; Hungarian coordinator: Sándor Kele)

Outstanding results

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Study trips

2008: Scholarship of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, (National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan, 6 weeks)
2004-2005 Scholarship of the Hungarian Scholarship Board (10 months, SCK·CEN, Belgian Nuclear Research Centre, MOL, Belgium)
2002 Erasmus scholarship (5 months, University of Florence, Italy)

Membership of scientific and professional organizations

Membership of scientific organizations:

Geokémiai, Ásvány- és Kőzettani Tudományos Bizottság (MTA, X. osztály) (2018-)
World Alliance for Research and Conservation of Travertine/Tufa Natural Heritage (WAT), titkár (2021-)
International Association of Sedimentologists (2014-)
European Association of Geochemistry (2011-)
Hungarian Academy of Sciences, member (2011-)
Hungarian Hydrological Society (2010-)
European Geosciences Union (2008-)
Society for Sedimentary Geology (2005-)
European Society for Isotope Research (2004-)
Hungarian Geological Society (1997-)

Membership of editorial Scientific Board:

Sedimentary Geology (2018-)
Bulletin of the Mineral Research and Exploration (Turkey) (2020-)
Geo-Science Education Journal (Kraków, Poland), Editorial Scientific Board (2016-)
Tourism and Cultural Heritage (Suchy Las, Poland) (2016-)

Proofreading:

Nature Scientific Reports, Science Advances, Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, Chemical Geology, Sedimentology, Sedimentary Geology, Quaternary International, Quaternarie, International Journal of Earth Sciences, Journal of African Earth Sciences, Central European Geology, Earth Sciences Research Journal, Central European Journal of Geosciences, ERC grants

Conference organization

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Research grants, scholarships

2013-2016 Bolyai János Research Scholarship of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences
2013-2014 SCIEX postdoctoral fellowship (ClumpIT, Sciex-Nr:13.071-2, ETH Zürich, Switzerland)
2002/2003 Grant of the Pro Renovanda Culturae Hungariae Foundation

Awards

2018 Excellent researcher of the Research Centre for Astronomy and Earth Sciences, Award of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences
2012 Szádeczky-Kardoss Elemér Award
2010 Central European Geology, Best Paper Award for Young Researchers
2009 Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Young Scientist Award
2005 European Society for Isotope Research (ESIR) VIII. Workshop: Poster Price for Young Scientists
2004 XXXV. Meeting of Young Geologists, 3^rd place
2002/2003 Distinguished Student of the Faculty of Natural Sciences, ELTE, Budapest, Hungary
2002 Erasmus scholarship (5 months, University of Florence, Italy)

Prizes won at scientific competitions

2003 National Scientific Conference of Students, Miskolc, Hungary

Sedimentology section: 1^st place
Paleontology section: 1^st place

2002 Scientific Conference of Students, Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest, Hungary: 2^nd place
2001 4^th Hungarian Paleontological Regional Meeting: 3^rd place in the poster session

Teaching

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International connections

Mirosław Słowakiewicz (University of Warsaw, Poland)
Lianchao Luo (Chengdu University of Technology, China)
Artur Ionescu (Babeș-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca, Romania)
Edoardo Perri, Pierluigi Santagati (University of Calabria, Italy)
Francesca Giustini, Mauro Brilli (CNR, Rome, Italy)
Jan Petrik, Katarína Adameková (Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic)
Michael Rogerson (Northumbria University, Newcastle, UK)
Stefano Bernasconi (ETH Zürich, Switzerland)
Rudy Swennen (KU Leuven, Belgium)
Chuan-Chou Shen (National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan)
Enrico Capezzuoli (University of Perugia, Italy)
Andrea Brogi (University of Bari, Italy)
Kate W. Huntigton (University of Washington, Seattle, USA)
Noah Anderson (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, USA)

Publications

Selected publications of the last 5 years

Słowakiewicz, M., Perri, E., Tagliasacchi, E., Działak, P., Borkowski, A., Gradziński, M., Kele, S., Tucker, M.E. (2023) Viruses participate in the organomineralization of travertines. Scientific Reports 13, 11663 (2023), DOI
Kele, S., Bódai B. (2022) Age, Depositional Environment, and Geochemistry of Freshwater Carbonates (Travertine, Tufa) from Hungary. In: Veress, M. and Leél-Őssy, Sz. (eds), Cave and Karst Systems of Hungary. Springer Nature Switzerland AG, pp. 513-533.
Luo, L., Capezzuoli, E., Vaselli, O., Wen, H., Lazzaroni, M., Lu, Z., Meloni, F., Kele, S. (2021) Factors governing travertine deposition in fluvial systems: The Bagni San Filippo (central Italy) case study. Sedimentary Geology 426, 106023, DOI
 Újvári, G., Bernasconi, S. M., Stevens, T., Kele, S., Páll-Gergely, B., Surányi, G., Demény, A. (2021) Stadial-interstadial temperature and aridity variations in East Central Europe preceding the Last Glacial Maximum. Paleoceanography and Paleoclimatology 36(8), e2020PA004170. DOI
Anderson, N., Kelson, J.R., Kele, S., Daeron, M., Bonifacie, M., Horita, J., Mackey, T.J., John, C.M., Kluge, T., Petsching, P., Jost, A.B., Huntington, K.W., Bernasconi, S.M., Bergmann, K.D. (2021) A unified clumped isotope thermometer calibration (0.5-1100°C) using carbonate-based standardization. Geophysical Research Letters, 48, e2020GL092069. DOI
Kele, S., Sallam, E.S., Capezzuoli, E., Rogerson, M., Wanas, H., Shen, C.-C., Ahmad Lone, M., Yu, T.-L., Schauer, A., Huntington, K.W. (2021) Were springline carbonates in the Kurkur-Dungul area (Southern Egypt) deposited during glacial periods? Journal of the Geological Society, DOI
Matera, P.F., Ventruti, G., Zucchi, M., Brogi, A., Capezzuoli, E., Liotta, D., Yu, T.-L., Shen, C.-C., Huntington, K.W., Rinyu, L., Kele, S. (2021) Geothermal fluid variation recorded by banded Ca-carbonate veins in a fault-related, fissure ridge-type travertine depositional system (Iano, southern Tuscany, Italy). Geofluids, DOI
Brogi, A., Liotta, D., Capezzuoli, E., Matera, P.F., Kele, S., Soligo, M., Tuccimei, P., Ruggieri, G. Yu, T.-L., Shen, C.-C., Huntington, K.W. (2020) Travertine deposits constraining transfer zone neotectonics in geothermal areas: An example from the inner Northern Apennines (Bagno Vignoni-Val d’Orcia area, Italy). Geothermics 85 (2020) 101763
Lukoczki, G., Haas, J., Gregg, J.M., Machel, H.G., Kele, S., John, C.M. (2020) Early dolomitization and partial burial recrystallization: a case study of Middle Triassic peritidal dolomites in the Villány Hills (SW Hungary) using petrography, carbon, oxygen, strontium and clumped isotope data. International Journal of Earth Sciences 109, 1051-1070 DOI
Claes, H., Török, Á., Soete, J., Mohammadi, Z., Vassilieva, E., Hamaekers, H., Erthal, M.M., Aratman, C., Cheng, H., Lawrence Edwards, R., Shen, C.-C., Özkul, M., Kele, S., Mindszenty, A., Swennen, R. (2020) U/Th dating and open system behaviour of travertine. Quaternaire 31:2, 117-132. Special Issue on "Multiproxy studies on continental carbonates: palaeoclimates and palaeoenvironments”
Lukoczki, G., Haas, J., Gregg, J.M., Machel, H.G., Kele, S., John, C.M. (2019) Multi-phase dolomitization and recrystallization of Middle Triassic shallow marine-peritidal carbonates from the Mecsek Mts. (SW Hungary), as inferred from petrography, carbon, oxygen, strontium and clumped isotope data. Marine and Petroleum Geology 101, pp. 440-458.
Petersen, S.V., Defliese, W.F., Saenger, C., Daëron, M., John, C.M., Huntington, K.W., Kelson, J.R., Bernasconi, S.M., Colman, A.S., Kluge, T., Olack, G.A., Schauer, A.J., Bajnai D., Bonifacie, M., Breitenbach, S.F.M., Fiebig, J., Fernandez, A.B., Henkes, G.A., Hodell, D., Katz, A., Kele, S., Lohmann, K.C., Passey, B.H., Petrizzo, D.A., Rosenheim, B.E., Tripati, A.E., Venturelli, R., Young, E.D., Wacker, U. and Winkelstern, I.Z. (2019) Effects of Improved 17O Correction on Inter-Laboratory Agreement in Clumped Isotope Calibrations, Estimates of Mineral-Specific Offsets, and Acid Fractionation Factors. Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems, DOI: 10.1029/2018GC008127
Török, Á., Claes, H., Brogi, A., Liotta, D., Tóth, Á., Mindszenty, A., Kudó, I., Kele, S., Huntington, K.W., Shen, C.-C., Swennen, R. (2019) A multi-methodological approach to reconstruct a dismantled travertine fissure ridge: the case of the Cukor quarry (Süttő, Gerecse Hills, Hungary). Geomorphology 345, 106836
Újvári, G., Kele, S., Bernasconi, S.M., Haszpra, L., Novothny, Á., Bradák, B. (2019) Clumped isotope paleotemperatures from MIS 5 stage soil carbonates in southern Hungary. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 518, 72-81.
Kluge, T., John, C.M., Boch, R., Kele, S. (2018) Assessment of factors controlling clumped isotopes and 18O values of hydrothermal calcites. Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems, DOI: 10.1029/2017GC006969
Kele, S., Bajnai, D. (2017) Kapcsolt izotópok (clumped isotopes) a földtudományi kutatásokban. Földtani Közlöny, 147/2, 177-194.
Haas, J., Hips, K., Budai, T., Győri, O., Lukoczki, G., Kele, S., Demény, A., Poros, Zs. (2017) Processes and controlling factors of polygenetic dolomite formation in the Transdanubian Range, Hungary - a synopsis. International Journal of Earth Sciences, 106 (3), 991-1021.
Claes, H., Degros, M., Soete, J., Claes, S., Kele, S., Mindszenty, A., Török, Á., El Desouky, H., Vanhaecke, F., Swennen, R. (2017) Geobody architecture, genesis and petrophysical characteristics of the Budakalász continental spring-related carbonates, Buda Hills (Hungary). Quaternary International, 437:(part A), 107-128.
Török, Á., Mindszenty, A., Claes, H., Kele, S., Fodor, L., Swennen, R. (2017) Sedimentological study and tentative reservoir characterization of the "Gazda" travertine quarry (Süttő, Gerecse Hills, Hungary). Quaternary International, 437:(part a), 164-185.
Brogi, A., Capezzuoli, E., Kele, S., Baykara, M.O., Shen, C.-C. (2017) Key tectofacies for neotectonics and palaeoseismicity reconstruction in travertine deposits as effects of hydrothermal overpressure fluids injection. Journal of the Geological Society, 174 (4), 679-699.
Billi, A., Berardi, G., Gratier, J.P., Rossetti, F., Vignaroli, G., Baykara, M.O., Bernasconi, S.M., Kele, S., Soligo, M, De Filippis, L., Shen, C.-C. (2017) First records of syn-diagenetic non-tectonic folding in quaternary thermogene travertines caused by hydrothermal incremental veining. Tectonophysics, 700-701, 60-79.
Billi, A., Berardi, G., Gratier, J.P., Rossetti, F., Vignaroli, G., Baykara, M.O., Bernasconi, S.M., Kele, S., Soligo, M, De Filippis, L., Shen, C.-C. (2017) Reply to the comment on ”First records of syn-diagenetic non-tectonic folding in quaternary thermogene travertines caused by hydrothermal incremental veining” by Bili et alii. Tectonophysics, 721, 501-512.
Koltai, G., Spötl, C., Shen, C.-C., Z. Rao, Wu., Palcsu, L., Kele, S., Surányi, G., Bárány-Kevei, I. (2017) A penultimate glacial climate record from southern Hungary. Journal of Quaternary Science, 32 (7), 946-956.
De Boever, E., Brasier, A.T., Foubert, A., Kele, S. (2017) What do we really know about early diagenesis of non-marine carbonates? Sedimentary Geology, 361, 25-41. (invited review)
Della Porta, G., Croci, A., Marini, M., Kele, S. (2017) Depositional architecture, facies character and geochemical signature of the Tivoli travertines (Pleistocene, Acque Albule Basin, Central Italy). Rivista Italiana di Paleontologia e Stratigrafia, 123:(3), 487-540.
Vignaroli, G., Berardi, G., Billi, A., Kele, S., Rossetti, F., Soligo, M., Bernasconi, S.M (2016) Tectonics, hydrothermalism, and paleoclimate recorded by Quaternary travertines and their spatio-temporal distribution in the Albegna basin, Italy: implications for the Tyrrhenian margin neotectonics. Litosphere, 8:(4) 335-358.
Berardi, G., Vignaroli, G., Billi, A., Rossetti, F., Soligo, M., Kele, S., Baykara, M.O., Bernasconi, S.M., Castorina, F., Tecce, F., Shen, C.-C. (2016) Growth of a Pleistocene giant carbonate vein and nearby thermogene travertine deposits at Semproniano, southern Tuscany, Italy. Tectonophysics, 690, 219-239.
Kele, S., Breitenbach, S.F.M., Capezzuoli, E., Meckler, A.N., Ziegler, M., Millan, I.M., Kluge T., Deák, J., Hanselmann, K., John, C.M., Yan, H., Liu, Z., Bernasconi, S.M. (2015) Temperature dependence of oxygen- and clumped isotope fractionation in carbonates: A study of travertines and tufas in the 6-95°C temperature range. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, 168, 172-192.