New postdoctoral fellow appointed by the DOMINO-CLIMATE project: Ilona Pál

We are pleased to inform you that Ilona Pál joined the DOMINO-CLIMATE team in January 2023. Ilona graduated from Eötvös Loránd University and completed her PhD there in 2017. She was a student of professor Enikő Magyari. She worked at the Charles University in Prague and the Hungarian Academy of Sciences.

Her main research focuses is the environmental history of the Carpathian Region during the Holocene (the last 11,700 years). In scope of her pollen analytical studies, she studied how rapid climate change events (RCCs) and human impact have changed the environment. She also studies microcharcoal particles, coccal green alga and non-pollen palynomorphs (NPPs) on the pollen slides to reconstruct the ecological changes in the lakes and the surroundings and discover significant human impacts.

In scope of the DOMINO-CLIMATE project she analyses lowland lake sediment records from direct vicinity of Neolithic and Eneolithic archaeological sites, does pollen-based land-cover reconstructions and reconstructs Neolithic-Eneolithic land exploitation phases.