János KORPONAI, PhD

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