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
  • Hungarian Karst and Cave Research 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 (2022-2024)
  • 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, Z., Neuhuber, S., Hintersberger, E., & Nørgaard, J. (2025). Iterative outlier identification for robust cosmogenic 26Al/10Be burial dating of fluvial terraces: a case study from the Danube River (Vienna Basin, Austria). E&G Quaternary Science Journal, 74(1), 59-78.
  • Temovski, M., Ruszkiczay-Rüdiger, Z., Molnár, K., Rinyu, L., Wieser, A., Marchhart, O., Palcsu, L., 2024. Constraining the evolutionary stages of a hypogene karst system by combining morphological, geochemical and geochronological data - the example of carbonate breccia-hosted Melnička Peštera. International Journal of Speleology, 53(2), 169-190.
  • Temovski, M., Wieser, A., Marchart, O., Braun, M., Madarász, B., Kiss, G. I., Palcsu, L., Ruszkiczay-Rüdiger, Z. (2024). Pleistocene valley incision, landscape evolution and inferred tectonic uplift in the central parts of the Balkan Peninsula–Insights from the geochronology of cave deposits in the lower part of Crna Reka basin (N. Macedonia). Geomorphology, 445, 108994.
  • 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.
Last update 22. 08. 2025.