Mihály Földvári, Ph.D.
researcher, Diptera collection
Hungarian Natural History Museum, Department of Zoology
H-1088 Budapest Baross u. 13.
Hungary
Tel. +36 1-267-71-00/129
Fax. +36 1-267-34-62 or +36 1-317-16-69
foldvari_at_zoo.zoo.nhmus.hu (please replace _at_ with @)
mfoldvari_at_gmx.de (please replace _at_ with @)

Curriculum Vitae

Studies:

Secondary School: 1989-1993, Lovassy László Secondary School, Veszprém, Hungary. Special language courses: German

University: 1993-1999, Szeged University (formerly: József Attila University), Szeged, Hungary. Diploma: Biologist, specialised in Ecology

Ph.D. studentship : 1999-2002, Department of Ecology, Szeged University (formerly: József Attila University), Szeged, Hungary and Department of Zoology, Hungarian Natural History Museum, Budapest, Hungary. Supervisor: Prof. László Papp and Prof. László Gallé

Ph.D. degree: 2004, Szeged University, Doctoral School of Environmental Sciences, Conservation Ecology Doctoral Program

Language skills:

German: Hungarian state exam, level high, written, spoken

English: ECL exam, level D (European Council level C1-C2)

French: Hungarian state exam, level medium, written

Conferences:

1998: 4th International Congress of Dipterology, Oxford, GB (poster)
2002: 5th International Congress of Dipterology, Brisbane, AU (2 talks)
2004: 22nd International Congress of Entomology, Brisbane, AU (talk)
2006: 6th International Congress of Dipterology, Fukuoka, JP (talk, poster)

Grants:

- TEMPUS 1998, six months Belgium, study visit

Brussels: Belgian Royal Natural History Museum, identification of Empis species

Tervuren: Royal Museum for Central Africa, taxonomic revision of Tomosvaryella

- COBICE 2001 - 1 month; 2002 - 2 months Danmark, study visit

Copenhagen: Zoological Museum, University of Copenhagen, check list of Danish Pipunculidae, taxonomy of Afrotropical Eudorylini (Pipunculidae), study of immature stages of diopsids, Sphyracephala europaea in particular

- COLPARSYST 2003 - 2 weeks France, study visit

Paris: Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle, Pipunculidae types

- HIGH-LAT 2003 - 2 weeks Sweden, study visit

Stockholm: Swedish Museum of Natural History, Pipunculidae types and Scandinavian fauna

- SYNTHESYS 2005 - 2 weeks Belgium, study visit

Tervuren: Royal Museum for Central Africa, Diopsidae types and Diasemopsis

- SYNTHESYS 2006 - 2 weeks United Kingdom, study visit

London: Natural History Museum, Diopsidae types, Diasemopsis, Teleopsis

Teaching:

1998/1999 - : Szent István University, Budapest, Institut for Zoology. Subject: Zootaxonomy, practical course (Diptera)

1999/2000; 2000/2001: Szeged University of Science, Department of Ecology. Subject: Zoosystematics, practical course



05.11.2006