Basic facts

Basic facts

Management of the Doctoral School

HEAD OF THE DOCTORAL SCHOOL

Tamás Turányi
Professor of Chemistry
Institute of Chemistry, office 146
e-mail: turanyi@chem.elte.hu

HEAD OF THE ENVIRONMENTAL BIOLOGY PROGRAM

Erika Tóth
Associate Professor (habilitated), Head of Department
Institute of Biology, Department of Molecular Biology
South Building 6.204
Phone: +36-(1)-372-2500/8792 or /8386
e-mail: erika.toth@ttk.elte.hu

HEAD OF THE ENVIRONMENTAL PHYSICS PROGRAM

Ákos Horváth
Associate Professor (habilitated)
Institute of Physics, North Building 0.123
e-mail: akos.horvath@ttk.elte.hu

HEAD OF THE ENVIRONMENTAL GEOSCIENCES PROGRAM

Zoltán Szalai
Associate Professor (habilitated)
ELTE
Department of Environmental and Landscape Geography
Southern Building 1.303, CsFK: 45 Budaörsi street,  4th floor 424.
e-mail: szalai.zoltan@csfk.org

HEAD OF THE ENVIRONMENTAL CHEMISTRY PROGRAM

Tamás Turányi
Professor of Chemistry
Institute of Chemistry, office 146
e-mail: turanyi@chem.elte.hu

CORE MEMBERS OF THE DOCTORAL SCHOOL

Cserti, József (DSc, Full Professor, ELTE) home page | publications


Homonnay, Zoltán (DSc, Full Professor, ELTE) home page | publications


Horváth, Ákos (PhD, Associate Professor (habilitated), ELTE) home page | publications


Magyari, Enikő (DSc, Full Professor, ELTE) home page | publications


Szalai, Zoltán (PhD, Associate Professor (habilitated), ELTE) home page | publications


Tóth, Erika (DSc, Associate Professor (habilitated), ELTE) home page | publications


Turányi, Tamás (DSc, Full Professor, ELTE) home page | publications

MEMBERS OF THE COUNCIL OF THE DOCTORAL SCHOOL (1 SEPTEMBER, 2022 - 31 AUGUST, 2025)

Members ex officio:

Turányi, Tamás (head of the Doctoral School, head of a doctoral programme)
Horváth, Ákos (head of a doctoral programme)
Szalai, Zoltán (head of a doctoral programme)
Tóth, Erika (head of a doctoral programme)
Tombor, Eszter (student representative)


Internal members:

Farkas, János
Kériné Borsodi, Andrea
Kovács, József
Mádlné Szőnyi, Judit
Magyari, Enikő
Mihucz, Viktor
Salma, Imre
Weidinger, Tamás


External members:

Kolláth, Zoltán
Szőkefalvi-Nagy, Zoltán
Vargha, Márta

ADMINISTRATION OF THE DOCTORAL SCHOOL

Andrea Förhéczné
ELTE Institute of Biology
Department of Biochemistry, office 5.418

1117 Budapest, Pázmány Péter sétány 1/c.
Phone: 381-2171
Extension: 8071


History of the Doctoral School

The Doctoral School of Environmental Sciences at the ELTE Eötvös Loránd University, Faculty of Science was founded in 2005. The first PhD students were enrolled in the autumn semester of academic year 2006/07. It is the youngest among the six doctoral schools at the Faculty. Up to now, the heads of the School were Profs. Ádám Kiss (2005-2012), András Galácz (2012-14), Imre M. Jánosi (2014-2020) and Tamás Turányi (2020- ). At present, the School has more than 150 accredited staff members (core members, lecturers and supervisors) and the number of active PhD students is more than 50. Based on these figures, the ELTE Doctoral School of Environmental Sciences is among the first three largest doctoral schools in Hungary (besides Szent István University and University of Szeged) from the total of 6 operating schools in the field of environmental sciences.

The Doctoral School works in close collaboration with the ELTE Centre for Environmental Sciences, which is responsible for the BSc and MSc education at the ELTE Faculty of Science. The administration is managed by the Head of the School, together with the heads of the four Doctoral Programs. The main decision-making body is the Council of Doctoral School.

Emphasis is placed on applying a discipline to complex, multidisciplinary research projects such as changes and influences on water quality, risk analysis and mitigation in different human and natural environments, research on renewable energy, etc. Our students can benefit from the close contacts with several research institutes and environmental authorities, since most of our listed lecturers and potential supervisors have positions at external institutes. Our PhD training programs are of great interest among international applicants resulting in 13-15 foreign students per semester.

The four Programs are strongly research oriented: apart from attending specialized courses, the students are expected to start their research work well before the end of the first year. There are courses and research work in the first two years. This period is concluded with a “complex exam”, where both the academic knowledge and the research progress are assessed. There is only research work in the next two years. At the end of each year the students report about their annual research progress at an internal “conference”, where the language of the presentations is English. During the PhD studies, all students are required to publish at least two papers in peer-reviewed internationally renowned journals of their field, with one of them as a first author. The four-year studies is terminated with the submission and defense of a Thesis.