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name:                                       Péter Szabó 

date and place of birth:     02 May 1972, Fehérgyarmat, Hungary

e-mail:                                     szabo_at_policy.hu

                                                     peter.szabo_at_ibot.cas.cz        

Education

• 1998 – 2003: Central European University, Budapest, Department of Medieval Studies. PhD in Medieval Studies

• 1997 – 1998: Central European University, Budapest, Department of Medieval Studies. MA in Medieval Studies

• 1990 – 1997: Eötvös Loránd University, Faculty of Arts, Budapest. MA in English, MA in History

Employment

• March 2008 – present: Senior researcher (Deputy head of department since 2013), Institute of Botany of the Czech Academy of Sciences, Department of Vegetation Ecology, Brno, Czech Republic

• September 2022 - present: Assistant professor, Department of Environmental Studies, Faculty of Social Sciences, Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic

• February 2005 – December 2007: Researcher, Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest, Institute of Archaeology, Department of Medieval and Postmedieval Archaeology

• September 2001 – July 2004: Visual Information Centre, assistant, Central European University, Budapest, Department of Medieval Studies

Academic Services

• 2024 - present: member of Editorial Board of the Series Holocene Histories: Humans, Plants, Animals by Leiden University Press.

• 2023 - present: member of the Scientific Committee of the European Agroforestry Federation (EURAF)

• 2018 – 2022: member of the Steering Committee for the Historical Vegetation Ecology Working Group of the International Association for Vegetation Science (IAVS)

• 2019 - present: member of the Editorial Board of Environment and History

• 2018 – 2019: member of Editorial Advisory Committee of Environment and History

• 2017 – 2019: President of the European Society for Environmental History

• 2015 – 2017: Vice-president of the European Society for Environmental History

• 2015 – present: Deputy coordinator for IUFRO (International Union of Forest Research Organizations) division 9.03.03 Historical Ecology

• 2014 – 2015: member of Travel Grant Committee of the European Society for Environmental History

• 2007 – present: member of Editorial Board of Global Environment, Journal of history, natural and social sciences

• 2004 – 2007: member of Nominating Committee of the European Society for Environmental History

• July 2001 – July 2002: co-ordinator of “People and Nature in Historical Perspective” Summer University Course at the Department of Medieval Studies, Central European University

• 2000: advisor to the “Application by the Republic of Hungary for the Inclusion of the Medieval Royal Seat and Parkland at Visegrád into the UNESCO World Heritage List”

• Membership in Conference Scientific Committees: Historical Ecology for the Future, Metz, France, 2020; Wooded Rural Landscapes in Central and Eastern Europe: Biodiversity, Cultural Legacy and Conservation. Rzeszów, Poland, 2017;  Coppice Forests: Past, Present and Future. Mendel University, Brno, Czech Republic, 2015; 4th International Conference of the European Society for Environmental History, Amsterdam, the Netherlands, 2007; International Conference on Trends in Research and Teaching of Historical Ecology in Central Europe. Budapest, Hungary, 2007.

 Grant Projects

• 2021-2024: team member in the project: "Application of traditional knowledge to halt biodiversity loss in woodlands." Funded by the Technology Agency of the Czech Republic

• 2021-2023: team member in the project: "Causes of decline and a system of effective restoration of priority habitat types of subalpine grasslands." Funded by the Technology Agency of the Czech Republic

• 2021-2026: team member in the project: "Center for Landscape and Biodiversity (DivLand)" Funded by the Technology Agency of the Czech Republic

• 2019-2021: co-investigator of the project: "The role of charcoal hearths in terms of cultural heritage and protection of landscape." Funded by the Technology Agency of the Czech Republic

• 2019-2022: team member in the project: "Restoration of coppicing management: a way to the diversification of the societal, economic and ecological use of the forest potential in Central Europe." Funded by the Technology Agency of the Czech Republic

• 2018 – 2020: co-investigator of the project: "Agroforestry – potential for regional development and sustainable rural landscape." Funded by the Technology Agency of the Czech Republic

• 2017 – 2019: team member in the project: "Humans as nature: anthropogenic legacy in temperate forest ecosystems." Funded by the Grant Agency of the Czech Republic (GA17-0928S)

• 2015 – 2017: co-investigator of the project: "Windstorms in the Czech Lands during the past 500 years." Funded by the Grant Agency of the Czech Republic (GA15-11805S)

• 2012 – 2016: principal investigator of the project: "Long-term woodland dynamics in Central Europe: from estimations to a realistic model (LONGWOOD)." Funded by the European Research Council (ERC), project no. 278065

• 2012 – 2015: team member in the project: "Pollen-based land-cover reconstruction - model testing and its implications for Holocene environmental change studies." Funded by the Grant Agency of the Czech Republic (GAP504/12/0649)

• 2008 – 2012: team member in the project: “Ancient lowland woodland in the perspective of historical development.” Funded by the Grant Agency of the Czech Academy of Sciences (GAAV IAA600050812)

• 2007: co-ordinator of Austrian Science and Research Liaison Office Research Project: Conference on “Trends in Research and Teaching of Historical Ecology in Central Europe.”

• 2005 – 2007: team member in joint research project of Central European University, Budapest and Edinburgh University, Scotland “Medieval Central Europe: A New Economic and Social History.”

• 2005 – 2007: team member in grant TS 049866 of the Hungarian Scientific Research Fund. “Medieval Hungarian Economic History in Light of Archaeology and Material Culture.”

Scholarships, fellowships

• February 2019 – July 2019: Writing Fellowship, Rachel Carson Center for Environment and Society. Munich, Germany.

• 2005 – 2007: Bolyai Scholarship of the Hungarian Academy of the Sciences. Project title: “Historical ecology of Hungarian woodland.”

•  June 2005: Hungarian American Enterprise Scholarship Fund, Senior Leaders and Scholars Fellowship. Project title: “Developing Heritage Assessment Techniques for Hungarian Sites Based on Sample Sites and Methods in the USA.” Badlands and Yellowstone National Parks, USA.

• March 2004 – February 2005: International Policy Fellowships, Budapest, Center for Policy Studies. Project title: “Management of Mixed Cultural and Natural World Heritage Sites in East-Central Europe: A Case-Study of Visegrád.”

• February 2004 – March 2004: International Scholarship from the Hungarian Scholarship Office. Brno, Czech Republic, Masaryk University, Institute of Geography.

Awards

• 2016: Zólyominé Barna Piroska Prize from the Biological Section of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences

• March 2003: Outstanding Doctoral Candidate, Central European University, Budapest.