Contacts

+36 1 309 2600 / 1355
+36 1 319 3137
ruszkiczay-rudiger.zsofia at csfk.org
rrzsofi at geochem.hu
315. szoba

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).

Employment

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Language knowledge

English, fluent (1994)
Spanish, fluent (1995)

Main fields of research

geomorphology; Quaternary research
geochronology: exposure age dating and erosion rate determination using in situ produced cosmogenic nuclides (³He, ¹⁰Be, ²⁶Al)
structural geomorphology, neotectonics, relationship of tectonics and denudation processes and their role in the landscape evolution
Sample preparation laboratory for in situ produced cosmogenic nuclides

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)

Project participation:

participant in Hungarian National Scientific Fund Project (OTKA) T 29798 (2000-2003) Project title: Late Miocene – Quaternary structural and landscape evolution in the Gödöllő Hills area
participant in OTKA T 38297 (2002-2005), Project title: Tata-Porhanyó, a middle Palaeolithic archaeological site
participant in the Topo-Europe, 4D Topography evolution in Europe program (2005-2007)
participant in OTKA F 43715 (2003-2006), Project title: Role of neotectonics in the young morphostructural evolution of the Transdanubian Range
participant in 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.
participant in 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.
participant in the 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)
participant in 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
participant in the 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
participant in the NKFI K 119309 project (2016-2020) „Exploring Late Pleistocene and Holocene linkages between different geomorphological domains in the SE Carpathian Basin”
participant in the 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"
participant in the NKFIH K 116618 számú (2016-2020) „Stratigraphy of the Pannonian Stage in southern Transdanubia” project
participant in the 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
participant in the OMAA 105öu4 (2020-2021) „Entwicklung einer neuen Methode zur Überprüfung der Reinheit von Quarz für kosmogene Datierungsmethoden mittels Lumineszenz” project

Outstanding results

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Study trips

2005. 17-18. March. TOPO-EUROPE: 4D Topography Evolution in Europe: Uplift, Subsidence and Sea Level Rise. Exploratory workshop, Budapest
2006. 12-17. June. CRONUS-EU Summer School „Applications of Cosmogenic Nuclides to Earth Surface Sciences.” Harkány, Hungary
2014. International Conference Participation Award (INKP) for the participation at EGU-2014, Vienna

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- )

Conference organization

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Research grants, scholarships

2000-2004. Hungarian State PhD Scholarship at the Department of Physical Geography, Eötvös University, Budapest (2+1 years)
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)
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)
2009-2010. Zoltán Magyary Postdoctoral Fellowship (12 months)
2010. EGIDE French State Scholarship at the Cosmogenic Nuclide Laboratory of CEREGE, CRNS, Aix en Provence, France (1 month)
2010-2011, 2013-2016 János Bolyai Research Scholarship (3 years)

Awards

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
2015. Academic Youth Award

Prizes won at scientific competitions

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

International connections

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Publications

Selected publications of the last 5 years

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.
Ruszkiczay-Rüdiger, Zs., Braucher, R., Novothny, Á., Csillag, G., Fodor, L., Molnár, G., Madarász, B., ASTER Team. 2016. Tectonic and climatic forcing on terrace formation: coupling in situ produced ¹⁰Be depth profiles and luminescence approach, Danube River, Hungary, Central Europe. Quaternary Science Reviews 131, 127-147.
Ruszkiczay-Rüdiger, Zs., Kern, Z. 2016. Permafrost or seasonal frost? - A review of paleoclimate proxies of the last glacial cycle in the East Central European lowlands. Quaternary International, 415. 241-252.
Ruszkiczay-Rüdiger, Zs., Kern, Z., Urdea, P., Braucher, R., Madarász, B., Schimmelpfennig, I., ASTER Team 2016. Revised deglaciation history of the Pietrele- Stânişoara glacial complex, Retezat Mts, Southern Carpathians, Romania. Quaternary International, 415, 216-229.
Sebe, K., Csillag, G., Ruszkiczay-Rüdiger, Zs., Fodor, L., Thamó-Bozsó, E., Müller, P., Braucher, R. 2011. Wind erosion under cold climate: A fossil periglacial mega-yardang system in Central Europe (Western Pannonian Basin, Hungary). Geomorphology, 134, pp. 470-482.
Ruszkiczay-Rüdiger, Zs., Braucher, R., Csillag, G., Fodor, L., Dunai, T.J., Bada, G., Bourlés, D., Müller, P. 2011 Dating pleistocene aeolian landforms in Hungary, Central Europe, using in situ produced cosmogenic ¹⁰Be. Quaternary Geochronology, 6, pp. 515-529.
Ruszkiczay-Rüdiger, Zs., Fodor, L., Horváth, E., Telbisz, T. 2009. Discrimination of fluvial, eolian and neotectonic features in a low hilly landscape, a DEM-based morphotectonic analysis in the Central Pannonian Basin, Hungary. Geomorphology, 104, 3-4, pp. 203-217.
Ruszkiczay-Rüdiger, Zs., Fodor, L., Horváth, E. 2007. Neotectonic and landscape evolution of the Gödöllő Hills, Central Pannonian Basin. Global and Planetary Change 58, pp. 181-196.
Karátson, D., Németh, K., Székely, B., Ruszkiczay-Rüdiger, Zs., Pécskay, Z. 2006. Incision of a river curvature due to exhumed Miocene volcanic landforms: Danube Bend, Hungary. Int. J. Earth Sci. (Geol. Rundsch) 95. (5.) pp. 929-944.
Fodor, L., Bada, G., Csillag, G., Horváth, E., Ruszkiczay-Rüdiger, Zs., Palotás, K., Síkhegyi, F., Timár, G., Cloetingh, S., Horváth, F. 2005. An outline of neotectonic structures and morphotectonics of the western and central Pannonian Basin. Tectonophysics 410. 1-4. pp. 15-41.
Ruszkiczay-Rüdiger, Zs., Dunai, T.J., Bada, G., Fodor, L., Horváth, E. 2005. Middle to late Pleistocene uplift rate of the Hungarian Mountain Range at the Danube Bend (Pannonian Basin) using in situ produced ³He. Tectonophysics, 410. 1-4. pp. 173-187.
Ruszkiczay-Rüdiger, Zs., Fodor, L., Bada, G., Leél-Össy, Sz., Horváth, E., Dunai, T.J. 2005. Quantification of Quaternary vertical movements in the central Pannonian Basin: A review of chronologic data along the Danube River, Hungary. Tectonophysics, 410. 1-4. pp. 157-172.