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