Zsolt Pinke

Curriculum vitae
Family name: Pinke, First name: Zsolt
Date of birth: June 16, 1968; Nationality: Hungary; Email: pinkezsolt@gmail.com
URL for web site: due to citations of Humanities being less well represented in Google Scholar please find my citation indices as officially evaluated by the Hungarian Academy of Sciences at:
https://m2.mtmt.hu/gui2/?type=authors&mode=browse&sel=10021512&view=pub…
Google Scholar URL: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=y3fQJJkAAAAJ&hl=hu
• RESEARCH AREA
Agro-, economic and environmental history, climate change, ecosystem service assessment, landscape restoration, land use and land cover change, social-environmental interactions
• EDUCATION
2018 PhD in Environmental Sciences, Faculty of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences, Szent István University (SZIE), Hungary
2015 PhD in History, Faculty of Humanities, University of Pécs, Hungary
2001 MA, Faculty of Humanities, University of Pécs, Hungary
• CURRENT POSITION
2024 – Senior research fellow, Dept. of Soil Physics and Water Management, HUN-REN ATK Institute for Soil Sciences
• PREVIOUS POSITIONS
2019 – 2026 Senior research fellow, Dept. of Physical Geography, Eötvös Loránd University (ELTE), Hungary
2018 – 2019 Postdoctoral researcher, Dept. of Physical Geography, ELTE, Hungary
2009 – 2018 Doctoral student, Dept. of Nature Conservation and Landscape Ecology SZIE, Hungary, Dept. of Modern History, University of Pécs, Hungary
• GRANTS, FELLOWSHIPS
2021 – 2025 PI, Young Researcher Grant (for preparing an independent laboratory, collaborating with 15 researchers, postdocs and PhD students) National Research, Development and Innovation Fund of Hungary (NKFIH)
2020 – 2021 Marie Skłodowska-Curie Individual Fellowship, Dept. of Agroecology, Aarhus University, Denmark
2018 – 2022 Postdoc fellowship, NKFIH (interrupted by MSCA grant)
2013 – 2014 PI, Jedlik Ányos Research Grant for Doctoral Candidates, NKFIH
• AWARDS
2019, 2020 Seal of Excellence in Marie Skłodowska-Curie actions MSCA-IF-2018 and 2019 applications
2017 Outstanding Reviewer of the Journal of Historical Geography
2012 1st Prize, Essay Application for the Association of Doctoral Students, Hungary
2001 2nd Prize, National Scientific Students' Associations Conference, University of Szeged, (MA Thesis: “History of Tisza River Regulation” (in Hungarian)
• SUPERVISION OF GRADUATE STUDENTS AND POSTDOCTORAL FELLOWS
2021 – 3 Postdoctoral fellows, ELTE Dept. of Physical Geography (NKFIH grant)
2021 – 1 Master Student (50%), Faculty of Forestry, University of Sopron, Hungary
2018 – 2020 1 PhD Student (50%), Festetics Doctoral School, Pannon University, Hungary
• TEACHING ACTIVITIES
2020 Guest lecturer – Methodological issues in environmental history – Doctoral School of History and Ethnography, University of Debrecen, Hungary
2013 Lecturer – Development of cultural landscapes in Hungary; Landscape under climate change – Dept. of Environmental Protection and Landscape Ecology, SZIE (Collaboration with the supervisor)
2012 Lecturer – Human-nature interactions in great plains – Dept. of Public Utility Engineering, Eötvös József College of Baja, Hungary
2011, 2012 Guest lecturer – Environmental history – Dept. of Medieval History, ELTE; Dept. of Environmental Engineering and Public Utility, Budapest University of Technology and Economics, Hungary; Dept. of Hungarian Linguistics, University of Debrecen, Hungary
2011 Lecturer – Environmental history of the Hungarian Plain – Dept. of Modern Age History, University of Pécs, Hungary
• ORGANISATION OF SCIENTIFIC MEETINGS
2019 Environmental History, 2019, Budapest, Hungary, (International conference)
2017 Historical Landscapes – Aquatic Habitats: Archaeology, Environmental History, Landscape Protection, Budapest, Hungary (International conference)
2015 – 2017 Nine workshops (some intl.) for environmental history at CEU, Budapest, Hungary
• INVITED SPEAKER AT INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCES
2020 The Mongols in Central Europe: Impact of their Thirteenth-Century Invasions (Online)
2020 – 2017 International Conference on Agriculture and Biotechnology (Online)
2016 PAGES LandCover6k General Workshop, Utrecht, The Netherlands
• REVIEWING ACTIVITIES
2021 Opponent of PhD thesis, Faculty of Sciences, ELTE, Hungary
2020 – Topic Editor, then Topical Advisor, Agronomy
2014 Evaluator of a BA thesis, Faculty of Humanities, University of Pécs, Hungary
• MEMBERSHIPS OF SCIENTIFIC SOCIETIES
2021 – Member, Public Body of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences
2017 – Member, Global Land Programme
2012 – Member, European Society for Environmental History
• MAJOR COLLABORATIONS
2024 – Expert, Kingdom of Hungary, late Middle Ages, regional differences, database
NKFIH research project (No. 145924)
2023 Expert, Mainstreaming Ecological Restoration of freshwater-related ecosystems in a
Landscape context ’Merlin’ H2020 project (No. 101036337)
2018–2020 Expert, National Ecosystem Services Mapping and Evaluation Program (MAES-HU)
2017– Member, 2ka Paleoclimatology Research Group of the MTA
2015–2017 European land use coordinator, PAGES LandCover6K project (global land use and
land cover reconstructions for the past 6000 years)
2014–2016 Mediator of the LEGO habitat rehabilitation project, Nyíregyháza, Hungary
2012 Member, Communication and Knowledge Transfer in Medieval Monastic Networks
International Research Programme, Central European University
2011 Expert, TÉKA Landscape Valuation and Characterisation International Research
Programme (Norway Grant)
• PUBLICATION RECORDS
The researcher has numerous peer-reviewed scientific articles (D1=16, Q1=2,