György Czuppon
PhD
senior research fellow
Contacts
  • +36 1 309 2600 / 1112
  • +36 1 319 3137
  • czuppon.gyorgy at csfk.hun-ren.hu
  • 312. room
Place and date of birth
    Budapest, 1977
Qualifications
  • 2009 PhD Department of Earth and Space Science, Graduate School of Science, Osaka University, Japan. Title of the doctor thesis: Noble gas compositions of mantle derived xenoliths from Tasmania and North Queensland.
  • 2003 MSc Department of Petrology and Geochemistry, Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest, Hungary. Title of the Master thesis: Origin of the Middle Ignimbrite Unit from Bükkalja: magma-mixing in a layered magma-chamber
Employment
  • since 2010 Institute for Geological and Geochemical Research, Research Centre for Astronomy and Earth Sciences, HUN-REN
  • 2009-2010 University of Vienna, Deparment of Lithospheric Research
  • 2005-2009: Osaka University, Department of Earth and Space Science
Language knowledge
  • English, B2
  • German, Zertifikat Deutsch – Goethe Institut
  • Italian
  • Japanese
Main fields of research
  • Stable isotope and noble gas isotope geochemistry:
    • paleoclimatology (speleothems)
    • cave monitoring
    • recent meteorological and climatological processes (stable isotope composition and origin of the precipitation)
    • geochemical investigation of magmatic and sedimentary rocks
Membership of scientific and professional organizations
  • 1997- Member of the Hungarian Geological Society
  • 2011- European Society for Isotope Research (ESIR)
  • 2011- European Association of Geochemistry
  • Geologischen Vereinigung
  • International Association of Volcanology and Chemistry of the Earth’s Interior (IAVCEI)
  • Mineralogical Society of America
Research grants, scholarships
  • 2024- :MTA project „Cave monitoring in Northern and Central Vietnam for paleoclimate and cave air pollution research”
  • 2021-: FK OTKA „Cave laboratory: application of Ca and Mg isotope compositions in speleothem research”
  • 2016-2020: OTKA PD project – „Reconstructions of climate and environmental changes in Hungary and Croatia during the Holocene by complex investigations of speleothems”
  • 2015 Bolyai János Research (Post Doc) Scholarship of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences
  • 2009-2010 Scholarship of the Japanese Government and Osaka University: Postdoctoral fellowship at the Department of Lithospheric Research, University of Vienna (International Training Program)
  • 2005-2009 Japanese Government (Monbukagakusho) Scholarship: Research and PhD course at the Department of Earth and Space Science, Graduate School of Science, Osaka University, Japan
  • 2003 Grant of the Pro Renovanda Cultura Hungariae „Alapítvány Diákok a Tudományért szakalapítvány
  • 2002 Ceepus-Scholarship: Research and studies during the Master course at University of Vienna, Austria
  • 2001 Grant of the Pro Renovanda Cultura Hungariae “Alapítvány Diákok a Tudományért szakalapítvány”
Awards
  • 2019 Excellent Researcher; award of the Research Centre for Astronomy and Earth Sciences, Hungarian Academy of Science
  • 2007 Young Scientist Award (2nd place) in the International Conference on Gas Geochemistry 9th, Taipei, Taiwan
  • 2003 Award of Outstanding Student of the Faculty of Science, Eötvös University (Hungary)in the 2002/2003 school year
Prizes won at scientific competitions
  • 2003 Certificate of Merit of 26th in the competition of the National Scientific Conference of Students held at University of Miskolc, Hungary
  • 2002 Award (2ndnd place) in the competition of the University Scientific Conference of Students held at the Faculty of Science, Eötvös University, Hungary
  • 2001 Certificate of Merit of 25thth in the competition of the National Scientific Conference of Students held at University of Pécs, Hungary
  • 2000 Award (3rdrd place) in the competition of the University Scientific Conference of Students held at the Faculty of Science, Eötvös University, Hungary
Teaching
  • 2013- MSc course at the Szeged University. Title of the course: Stable isotope geochemistry and paleoclimate research
  • 2019- PhD course at the Eötvös Universty. Title of the course: Isotopes in environmental science
  • Supervisor/consultant:TDK (5); BSc (2); MSc (7); PhD (2)
Publications
Selected publications of the last 5 years
  • Czuppon, Gy; TótTth, A ; Fekete, E ; Fórizs, I ; Engloner, A ; Kármán, K ; Dobosy, P ; Nyiri, G ; Madarász, T ; Szűcs, P., 2025: Stable isotope and hydrogeological measurements : implications for transit time and mixing ratio in a riparian system of the Danube River. Journal of Hydrology, 650, 132412.
  • Czuppon Gy, Demény A., Leél-Őssy Sz., Stieber J., Óvári M., Dobossy P., Berentés Á., Kovács R., 2022: Monitoring and geochemical investigations of caves in Hungary: implications for climatological, hydrological and speleothem formation processes. in Cave and Karst Systems of Hungary (eds: Veress M., Leél-Őssy Sz.), 465-486. Chapter 16, SPRINGER INTERNATIONAL PUBLISHING
  • Baldermann, A; Banerjee, S ; Czuppon, Gy ; Dietzel, M ; Farkaš, J ; Lӧhr, S ; Moser, U ; Scheiblhofer, E ; Wright, NM. ; Zack, T., 2022: Impact of green clay authigenesis on element sequestration in marine settings. NATURE COMMUNICATIONS 13 : 1: 1527
  • Molnár, K.; Czuppon, Gy ; Palcsu, L ; Benkó, Zs ; Lukács, R ; Kis, BM ; Németh, B ; Harangi, Sz. 2021. Noble gas geochemistry of phenocrysts from the Ciomadul volcanic dome field (Eastern Carpathians). LITHOS 394-395, 106152.
  • Cseresznyés D., Czuppon Gy., Király Cs, Demény A., Györe D., Forray V., Kovács I., Szabó Cs, Falus Gy.: 2021: Origin of dawsonite-forming fluids in the Mihályi-Répcelak field (Pannonian Basin) using stable H, C and O isotope compositions: Implication for mineral storage of carbon-dioxide. CHEMICAL GEOLOGY, 584, 120536.
Last update 10.11.2025