Zsófia Ruszkiczay-Rüdiger
PhD
senior research fellow
Contacts
  • +36 1 309 2600 / 1355
  • +36 1 319 3137
  • ruszkiczay-rudiger.zsofia at csfk.hun-ren.hu
  • rrzsofi at geochem.hu
  • 315. szoba
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Place and date of birth
    Budapest, 1976
Qualifications
  • 2007. PhD Faculty of Earth and Life Sciences, Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam. Title of the thesis: Tectonic and climatic forcing in Quaternary landscape evolution in the Central Pannonian Basin: A quantitative, geomorphological, geochronological and structural analysis.
  • 2000. MSc, Institute of Geography and Earth Sciences, Eötvös University, Budapest, Hungary. Title of the thesis: Late Glacial – Holocene evolution of the southern part of the Sajó-Hernád alluvial fan, Hungary (in Hungarian).
Language knowledge
  • English, fluent (1994)
  • Spanish, fluent (1995)
Main fields of research
  • geochronology: exposure age dating and erosion rate determination using in situ produced cosmogenic nuclides (3He, 10Be, 26Al)
  • Sample preparation laboratory for in situ produced cosmogenic nuclides
  • geomorphology; Quaternary research
  • structural geomorphology, neotectonics, relationship of tectonics and denudation processes and their role in the landscape evolution
Research projects
  • Project leadership:
    • OTKA PD 83610 (2011, 2013-2016) Cosmogenic 10Be dating of Danube terraces: tectonic and climatic influence on Quaternary river incision in Hungary (3 years)
    • MTA-CNRS French-Hungarian bilateral project (NKM-96/2014 és NKM-31/2015) (2014-2015), between CEREGE and the Institute for Geological and Geochemical Research. „Chrolology of the Carpathian glaciations and Quaternary climate reconstruction using in situ produced cosmogenic Be-10 and C-14 nuclides”
    • Austrian-Hungarian bilateral project (OMAA 90öu17) (2015-2016) „Vergleich Labore fur Datierung mit kosmogenem Aluminium und Beryllium (Budapest und Wien)”
    • NKFI FK 124807 (2017-2021) ” Geochronology of glacial landforms and cave sediments in Macedonia and implications for Quaternary landscape evolution in the Central Balkan Peninsula”
    • Austrian-Hungarian bilateral project (OMAA 98öu17) (2018-2019) "Datierung von Terrassenschottern der Donau südlich des Flughafen Wiens mit kosmogenem 26Al und 10Be"
    • 19001687-ST "Suitability of cave ice deposits as an archive for past atmospheric 10Be deposition" Ionbeamcenters.eu / Radiate Transnational Access, 24 hours beamtime at Vienna Environmental Research Accelerator (2019)
    • 19001688-ST "Cosmogenic 10Be exposure dating of glacial landforms and 26Al / 10Be burial dating of cave sediments in Macedonia" Ionbeamcenters.eu / Radiate Transnational Access, 144 hours beamtime at Vienna Environmental Research Accelerator (2019-2020)
    • 20002322-ST “Cosmogenic 10Be exposure dating of glacial landforms in Šar Mts, North Macedonia” RADIATE/Ionbeamcenters.eu, 86h beam-time at Vienna Environmental Research Accelerator (VERA) (2021)
    • 22002703-ST “Cosmogenic 26Al/10Be burial dating of sediments trapped in caves (Hungary and North Macedonia)” RADIATE/Ionbeamcenters.eu, 95h beam-time at Vienna Environmental Research Accelerator (VERA) (2022)
    • 22002978-ST “Controversial geochronological results demanding advanced Be-10 exposure age determination of glacial landforms in the Šar Mts, North Macedonia” RADIATE/Ionbeamcenters.eu, 86h beam-time at Vienna Environmental Research Accelerator (VERA) (2022-2023)
    • 23003128-ST “Timing of final deglaciation by revealing 10Be inheritance using in-situ produced cosmogenic 14C in quartz samples from the Central Balkan Region” RADIATE/Ionbeamcenters.eu, 72h beam-time at a Labor for Ion Beam Physics (LIP), ETH, Zürich (2023)
    • 23003260-ST “ A pilot study of cosmogenic 26Al/10Be burial dating of fluvial gravel sheets of Western Hungary” RADIATE/Ionbeamcenters.eu, 35h beam-time at Vienna Environmental Research Accelerator (VERA) (2023)
    • CF 253/29.11.2022, PNRR-III-C9 2022 - I8, Romania’s National Recovery and Resilience Plan (PNRR) “Climate- and tectonics-related surface processes in the Southern Carpathians and Northern Balkan Mountains. A geochronological approach at different timescales” (2023-2026) ( ChronoCaRP )
  • Project participation:
    • Hungarian National Scientific Fund Project (OTKA) T 29798 (2000-2003) Project title: Late Miocene – Quaternary structural and landscape evolution in the Gödöllő Hills area
    • OTKA T 38297 (2002-2005), Project title: Tata-Porhanyó, a middle Palaeolithic archaeological site
    • Topo-Europe, 4D Topography evolution in Europe program (2005-2007)
    • OTKA F 43715 (2003-2006), Project title: Role of neotectonics in the young morphostructural evolution of the Transdanubian Range
    • OTKA K 62478 (2005-2009), Project title: Effects of deflation on late Neogene to Quaternary sedimentation and landscape evolution in the Hungarian Mountain Range and its foreland.
    • OTKA K 68219 (2007-2011) Project title: Complex comparison study of the Quaternary formations of the Gödöllő Hills and the Danube terraces: a morphotectonic and paleoenvironmental reconstruction study.
    • Balaton-TÉT French-Hungarian FR-32/2007 (Hungarian Science and Technological Foundation) bilateral cooperation (2008-2009), among CEREGE (Aix en Provence) MÁFI and ELTE (Budapest)
    • OTKA NK 83400 (2011-2015) SourceSink Hungary - Quantification of mass transfer from mountain ranges to active sedimentary basins of Hungary: integrated source-to-sink studies
    • Balaton-TÉT French-Hungarian TÉT_11-2-2012-0005 (Hungarian Science and Technological Foundation) bilateral cooperation (2012-2013) Dating terrace horizons along the Danube valley in Hungary: a methodological study and data calibration using cosmogenic nuclides and optically stimulated luminescence
    • NKFI K 119309 project (2016-2020) „Exploring Late Pleistocene and Holocene linkages between different geomorphological domains in the SE Carpathian Basin”
    • Mecsekérc Környezetvédelmi Zrt. BAF-I-5/2016 project (2016-2017) ,,Geological survey of the Boda Claystone Formation (Agyagkő Formáció (BAF), surface study phase I/2"
    • NKFIH K 116618 számú (2016-2020) „Stratigraphy of the Pannonian Stage in southern Transdanubia” project
    • NKFIH K 134873 (2020-2024) „ From rifting to neotectonic differential motions: coupling of crustal deformation, denudation, sedimentation and deep lithospheric processes – case studies in the Pannonian Basin” project
    • OMAA 105öu4 (2020-2021) „Entwicklung einer neuen Methode zur Überprüfung der Reinheit von Quarz für kosmogene Datierungsmethoden mittels Lumineszenz” project
    • Mecsekérc Környezetvédelmi Zrt. BK-SZKÉRT-BAF_14/2018, ill. M-225/2018 project (2019-2022) „Evaluation of landscape evolution of the Western Mecsek karst area”
Study trips
  • 2002-2003. Marie Curie Felowship in the Eurobasin Training Centre at the Department of Isotope Geochemistry, Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam (9 months)
  • 2005. Visitor Research Fellowship, Research Centre for Integrated Solid Earth Sciences /ISES/, Department of Isotope Geochemistry, Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam (3 months)
  • 2006. 12-17. June. CRONUS-EU Summer School „Applications of Cosmogenic Nuclides to Earth Surface Sciences.” Harkány, Hungary
  • 2007. EGIDE French State Scholarship at the Cosmogenic Nuclide Laboratory of CEREGE, CRNS, Aix en Provence, France (1 month)
  • 2008. EGIDE French State Scholarship at the Cosmogenic Nuclide Laboratory of CEREGE, CRNS, Aix en Provence, France (1.5 months)
  • 2009. EGIDE French State Scholarship at the Cosmogenic Nuclide Laboratory of CEREGE, CRNS, Aix en Provence, France (2 months)
  • 2010. EGIDE French State Scholarship at the Cosmogenic Nuclide Laboratory of CEREGE, CRNS, Aix en Provence, France (1 month)
Membership of scientific and professional organizations
  • HUNTEK (Hungarian Tectonic Working Group)
  • CETEG (Central European Tectonic Group)
  • Stratigraphic Committee of Hungary, Quaternary Subcommittee
  • Hungarian Geological Society
  • INQUA Hungarian national Committee
  • EGU (European Geosciences Union)
  • Georeview editorial board member
  • E&G Quaternary Science Journal editorial board member
  • NKFIH Geoext commitee member (2000-2023)
  • European Association of Geochemistry Council Nominations Committee member (2022-)
  • Scientific Committee of Geology of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences member (2023-)
Awards, fellowships
  • 2000-2004. Hungarian State PhD Scholarship at the Department of Physical Geography, Eötvös University, Budapest (2+1 years)
  • 2003. Best poster presentation, 4th Stephan Müller topical conference of the European Geosciences Union, Cheile Butii, Romania
  • 2006. Elemér Szádeczky-Kardoss publication award of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, 1st place
  • 2005. 17-18. March. TOPO-EUROPE: 4D Topography Evolution in Europe: Uplift, Subsidence and Sea Level Rise. Exploratory workshop, Budapest
  • 2009-2010. Zoltán Magyary Postdoctoral Fellowship (12 months)
  • 2010-2011, 2013-2016 János Bolyai Research Scholarship (3 years)
  • 2014. International Conference Participation Award (INKP) for the participation at EGU-2014, Vienna
  • 2015. Academic Youth Award
  • 2023. Jenő Cholnoky Karst and Cave Research Proposal, 1st award
Teaching
  • 2000-2011 Eötvös University, Budapest
  • Lectures: Physical geography of the Carpathian Basin, Geomorphology, New methodologies of Quaternary Research, Field and laboratory methods in Quaternary Research, Student fieldworks
  • 2013- Eötvös University, Budapest, Invited speaker in New methodologies of Quaternary research, Isotope geochronology and Quaternary geochronology courses
Publications
Selected publications of the last 5 years
  • Ruszkiczay-Rüdiger, Zs., Temovski, M., Kern, Z., Madarász, B., Milevski, I., Lachner, J., & Steier, P. 2022. Late Pleistocene glacial advances, equilibrium-line altitude changes and paleoclimate in the Jakupica Mts (North Macedonia). CATENA, 216, 106383.
  • Ruszkiczay-Rüdiger, Zs., Neuhuber, S., Braucher, R., Lachner, J., Steier, P., Wieser, A., Braun, M., ASTER Team 2021. Comparison and performance of two cosmogenic nuclide sample preparation procedures of in situ produced 10Be and 26Al. Journal of Radioanalytical and Nuclear Chemistry, 329(3), 1523-1536.
  • Ruszkiczay-Rüdiger, Zs., Kern, Z., Urdea, P., Madarász, B., Braucher, R., ASTER Team 2021. Limited glacial erosion during the last glaciation in mid-latitude cirques (Retezat Mts, Southern Carpathians, Romania). Geomorphology, 107719.
  • Ruszkiczay-Rüdiger, Z., Balázs, A., Csillag, G., Drijkoningen, G., & Fodor, L. 2020. Uplift of the Transdanubian Range, Pannonian Basin: How fast and why? Global and Planetary Change, 103263. 1-17.
  • Ruszkiczay-Rüdiger, Zs., Kern, Z., Temovski, M., Madarász, B., Milevski, I., Braucher, R., ASTER Team. 2020. Last deglaciation in the central Balkan Peninsula: geochronological evidence from the Jablanica Mt. (North Macedonia). Geomorphology, 351. 106985.
  • Ruszkiczay-Rüdiger, Zs., Csillag, G., Fodor, L., Braucher, R., Novothny, Á., Thamó-Bozsó, E., Virág, A., Pazonyi, P., Timár, G., ASTER Team 2018. Integration of new and revised chronological data to constrain the terrace evolution of the Danube River (Gerecse Hills, Pannonian Basin). Quaternary Geochronology 48, 148-170.
Last update 23. 11. 2023.