Research interest:

-  Geospatial development aiming integrated water resources and river basin management;

-    Renewable energy resource assessment, mapping and monitoring (Europe,    Africa);

-   Assessment of hydro-power potentials (climate change, mini-hydro, pumping station);

-  Human impact assessment based on environmental, technical and socio-economic aspects;

-    Development of GIS-based optimisation tools for rural electrification (Africa).

 

Professional expertise:

- Data mining, geo-data processing, geo-database harmonization and integration;

-   Spatial data modelling, data harmonisation, system integration supporting interoperability;

-  Data transformation and conversion (variant reference systems, formats, resolution etc.);

-    Processing and analysing large geo-data sets in continental/global coverage;

-   GIS technologies for environmental applications, creation and management of geodatabases;

-    Digital elevation modelling, cell-based modelling, network analysis;

-    Spatial statistical operations and GIS programming (raster, vector, relational DB);

-    Thematic mapping including hazard and risk mapping.

 

Research experience:

-   Processing and analysing continental and global data sets (hydrography, hydro-meteorology, terrain, land use) and databases (water resources, soil, renewable energy resources);

-   Development of conceptual geodata models and production of tools and methods to support interoperability through translation from diverse schema to common models;

-     Development of GIS database and geoecological mapping;

-     Modelling of human impacts on the landscape;

-     Multi-hazard, risk and damage mapping;

-   Assessment of climate change effects on floods and water resources in Europe and Africa (data mining, system integration, spatial analysis and mapping);

-    Modelling urban development by using cellular automata, development of integrated suitability maps in cellular automata-based land use model;

-    Assessment and mapping of renewable energy resources (solar, wind, hydro), development and integration of GIS-based optimisation tools for rural electrification planning in Africa;

-    Optimized energy solutions in rural Africa: mapping electrification costs of distributed solar and diesel generation versus grid extension.

 

Working experience:

2010- Institute for Energy and Transport (IET)

         European Commission - Joint Research Centre (EC, JRC), Ispra, Italy;

2003-2009 Institute for Environment and Sustainability (IES)

         European Commission - Joint Research Centre (EC, JRC), Ispra, Italy;

1995-2003 Department of Physical Geography and Geoinformatics

         Faculty of Science, University of Szeged, Hungary;

1989-1991 Hungarian Geological Survey, Budapest, Hungary.

 

Most frequently used software environment:

-    ERSI Arc/Info Workstation 8.x, 9.x, ArcGIS Desktop 8.x, 9.x, 10, ArcView GIS 3.x, AML;

-     PCRaster (Windows and Linux environment), ERDAS Imagine, TNTmips;

-     GDAL - Geospatial Data Abstraction Library, OpenGIS (GRASS, QGIS);

-     dBase-files, SQL, Oracle table operations;

-     Google Earth visualization, KML, HTML/CSS/Javascript, XML;

-     Content Management System (Joomla! Drupal);