János KORPONAI, PhD

invited professor
associate professor

Contact

Contact information

8360, Keszthely, Stromfeld Aurél utca 12/b, Hungary
+36 83 315 646
+36 30 439 4033
korponai.janos@iif.hu; korponai.janos@uni-nke.hu

Personal information

Nationality: Hungarian
Date of birth: 1964.01.30.
Marital status: married

Identifiers, references

MTMT: 10000114
ORCID: 0000-0003-0211-192X
MTA ID: 10009575
ResearcherID: G-1438-2011
Scopus ID: 6507695544
Public body: 15692

Workplaces, positions

September 2023 – July 2024	lecturer (Eötvös Loránd University)
from May 2019	associate professor (National University of Public Administration)
from September 2018	external lecturer (Sapientia Hungarian University of Transylvania)
May 2018 – December 2018	other legal relationship (University of Pannonia)
February 2016 – April 2019	associate professor (Eötvös Loránd University)
October 2007 – January 2016	associate professor (University of West Hungary)
September 2006 – October 2007	external lecturer (University of West Hungary)
2015–2019	senior research fellow (Office for Research Groups of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences)
1992–2015	hydrobiologist (West Transdanubian Environmental and Water Directorate)
1989–1992	assistant lecturer (Janus Pannonius University)
1988–1989	biologist (South Transdanubian Water Directorate)
1987–1988	biologist (Pécs Waterworks)

Qualifications

University studies and qualifications

1987 – biology (MSc) – University of Kossuth Lajos

Scientific degree

2002 – PhD – University of Debrecen
Thesis: The temporal and spatial pattern of microcrustaceans, and their role in the trophic structure in Hidveg Pond

Languages

English – B2 level
Russian – basic level

Other skills

Computer and knowledge: Microsoft Word, Access, Exel, PowerPoint, Corel DRAW, SPSS, PAST, R- Statistical environment
Driving license: category B
Individual skills and competencies: creativity, team spirit, flexibility, practicality, sophistication at work

Supervision

Students with PhD degrees

Gyulai, István, 2018, JP Doctoral School, UD
Kövér, Csilla, 2016, KP Doctoral School of Environmental Sciences, UWH

Pre-doctors

Méhes, Nikoletta, RGy Doctoral School of Forestry and Wildlife Management Sciences, US

PhD committee

Kelemen Szabolcs (opponent, PhD, 2023, UBB, Romania)
Fekete, Judit (member, PhD, 2023, Univ. Pannonia)
Nagy-László, Zsolt (examiner, opponent, PhD, 2023, Univ. Pannonia)
Hervai, Ákos (opponent, PhD, 2021, Univ. Pécs)
Pál, Ilona (opponent, PhD, 2018, ELTE)
Vincze, Ernő (examiner, PhD, 2018, Univ. Pannonia)
Selmeczy, Géza (opponent, PhD, 2017, Univ. Pannonia)
Lengyel, Edina (examiner, PhD, 2017, Univ. Pannonia)
Sorocki-Pintér, Éva (opponent, PhD, 2015, Univ. Pannonia)
Vad Csaba, Ferenc (opponent, PhD, 2014, ELTE)
Ferincz, Árpád (opponent, PhD, 2014, Univ. Pannonia)
Baranyai, Eszter (examiner, opponent, PhD, 2013, Univ. Pannonia)
Szivák, Ildikó (opponent, PhD, 2013, Univ. Pécs)
Charo Lopez, Blanko (member, PhD, 2012, University of Valencia, Spain)
Kovács, Kata (opponent, PhD, 2012, Univ. Pannonia)
Ács András, (opponent, PhD, 2010, Univ. Pannonia)
Boros, Gergely (opponent, PhD, 2010, Univ. Pannonia)
Üveges, Viktória (opponent, PhD, 2010, Univ. Pannonia)
Vadadi-Fülöp, Csaba (opponent, PhD, 2010, ELTE)
Várbíró, Gábor (opponent, PhD, 2009, Univ. Debrecen)
Balogh, Csilla (examiner, opponent, PhD, 2008, Univ. Pannonia)
Juhász, Judit (opponent, Ph.D., 2004, ELTE)

Research

Main indicators of scientific activity

Number of scientific publications: 101
Total impact factor: 93.29
Number of independent references: 602
Hirsch index: 18

Participation in tenders

2016–2020 – Compositional and functional biodiversity of aquatic assemblages along spatial and temporal gradients - vulnerability, resilience, implications for applied issues (OTKA 120595)
2016–2020 – CRYPTIC: CRYPtogams’ Traits In the Carpathians (OTKA 119208)
2016–2019 – Sustainable use of ecosystem services - research for mitigating the negative effect of climate change, land use change and biological invasion (GINOP 2.3.2-15-2016-00019)
2012–2017 – Providing long environmental and genetic records of glacial and interglacial climatic oscillations and human impact in the Carpathian Basin (PROLONG) (OTKA 101362)
2005–2008 – Relationship between food web and trophic conditions in a shallow freshwater ecosystem (OTKA 48758)
2005–2007 – Effect of water level changes on ecological status of Lake Balaton (NKFP)
2004–2008 – Microcrustacean community structure and its palaeoecological reconstruction in shallow waters (OTKA 49098, PI)

Foreign research experience

2023.09.15 – 2023.09.25 – School of Agrarian and Environmental Science, University of Asores, Portugal
2018.04.02 – 2018.04.14 – Department of Environmental Science, Sapientia Hungarian University of Transylvania, Romania
2014.10 – 2015.03 – Department of Geosciences and Geography, University of Helsinki, Finland
2001.08 – 2001.09 – Catholic University of Leuven, Leuven, Belgium
1997.10 – 1997.12 – Department of Biology, University of Turku, Turku, Finland

Editorial activity

2020 – Water, an Open Access Journal by MDPI. Guest Editor of Special Issue: "The Response of the Plankton Community to Environmental Stress"
2009 – Buczkó, K., Korponai, J., Padisák, J., Starratt, SW (szerk.) Palaeolimnological proxies as tools of environmental reconstruction in fresh water Dordrecht, Hollandia: Springer (2009), 327 p. ISBN: 9789048133864

Peer-review

Journal of Paleolimnology
Ecological Engineering
Hydrobiologia
Water (Switzerland)
Ecological Indicators
Limnetica
Toxins
International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health
Polish Polar Research
Journal of Marine Science and Engineering
Sustainability
Geosciences
Fundamental and Applied Limnology

Conference organization

2018 – 15th International Subfossil Cladoceran Workshop, Veszprém, Hungary (ELTE-MTA-PE)
2008 – 10th International Subfossil Cladoceran Workshop, Keszthely, Hungary (NYUDIVIZIG)

Participation in international conferences

2022 – Joint Meeting International Paleolimnology Association – Internatinal Association of Limnogeology, Bariloche, Argentina
2020 – 17th Carpathian Basin Conference for Environmental Sciences, Cluj-Napoca, Romania
2019 – 15th Carpathian Basin Conference for Environmental Sciences, Cluj-Napoca, Romania
2018 – 15th International Subfossil Cladoceran Workshop, Veszprém, Hungary (ELTE-MTA-PE)
2018 – Joint Meeting International Paleolimnology Association – Internatinal Association of Limnogeology, Stockholm, Sweden
2016 – 14th International Subfossil Cladoceran Workshop, Levico Therme, Italy
2014 – 14th International Subfossil Cladoceran Workshop, Tallin, Estonia
2012 – 12nd Subfossil Cladocera Workshop, Helsinki, Finland
2010 – 11st Subfossil Cladocera Workshop, Warsaw, Poland
2008 – 10th Subfossil Cladocera Workshop, Keszthely, Hungary
2007 – 9th Subfossil Cladocera Workshop, Valencia, Spain
2007 – 5th Symposium for European Freshwater Sciences (SEFS5), Palermo, Italy,
2005 – 7th International Symposium on Cladocera, Herzberg, Switzerland
2002 – 4th International Conference on Reservoir Limnology and Water Quality, České Budějovice, Czech Republic
2002 – Shallow Lakes 2002 - International Conference on Limnology of Shallow Lakes, Balatonfüred, Hungary
2000 – International Symposium on Food web effects of fish in the lake ecosystem, Rheinsberg-Linow, Germany
1999 – 5th International Symposium on Cladocera, Plön, Germany
1998 – XXVII SIL (Societas Internationalis Limnologiae) Congress, Dublin, Ireland
1997 – 3rd International Conference on Reservoir Limnology and Water Quality, České Budějovice, Czech Republic
1996 – 4th International Symposium on Cladocera, Postojna, Slovenia
1990 – 2nd International Congress of Dipterology, Bratislava, Czechoslovakia

Participation in domestic conferences

2022 – 64st Hydrobiological Days, Tihany
2020 – 62st Hydrobiological Days, Tihany
2019 – 2nd National Conference on Municipal Rainwater Management Baja
2019 – 61st Hydrobiological Days, Tihany
2019 – Meeting of Hungarian Hydrological Society, 37., Pécs
2018 – 60th Hydrobiological Days, Tihany
2013 – 55th Hydrobiological Days, Tihany
2012 – 54th Hydrobiological Days, Tihany
2010 – 52nd Hydrobiological Days, Tihany
2009 – 51st Hydrobiological Days, Tihany
2007 – 49th Hydrobiological Days, Tihany
2006 – 48th Hydrobiological Days, Tihany
2003 – 45th Hydrobiological Days, Tihany
2001 – 43rd Hydrobiological Days, Tihany
1999 – 41st Hydrobiological Days, Tihany
1997 – 39th Hydrobiological Days, Tihany
1996 – 2nd Conference on Kis-Balaton, Keszthely, Hungary
1994 – Meeting of Hungarian Hydrological Society, 22., Siófok