Curriculum vitae of Edina Török 

Publications of Edina Török

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Academic degrees/qualification:

• PhD in Biology (Romanian Academy Institute of Biology, Bucharest, Romania, 2018). Thesis title: "Using integrative taxonomy tools to identify mosquitoes (Diptera, Culicidae) as vectors of different pathogens in the most representative ecosystems of the Danube Delta and Cluj-Napoca area (România)".

• MSc in Utilisation and Protection of Biological Resources (Babeş-Bolyai University, Faculty of Biology and Geology, Cluj-Napoca, Romania, 2014). Thesis title: "A comparative investigation of morphological and genetic structuring in the case of the European widespread Ptychoptera albimana Fabr. (Diptera, Ptychopteridae)".

• MEd in Biology (Babeş-Bolyai University, Faculty of Psychology and Educational Sciences, Cluj-Napoca, Romania, 2014).

• BSc in Biology (Babeş-Bolyai University, Faculty of Biology and Geology, Cluj-Napoca, Romania, 2012). Thesis title: "Molecular biology studies on Staphylococcus aureus strains originated from the Municipal Hospital, Marghita".

Scientific career:

• Centre for Ecological Research, "Lendület" Landscape and Conservation Ecology Research Group, research fellow 2018-.

• Babeş-Bolyai University, Faculty of Biology and Geology, Hungarian Department of Biology and Ecology, external lecturer, 2017-2018.

• Babeş-Bolyai University, Plant and vegetation ecology group, Project TE, “The ecological and economic impacts of plant invasions on Romanian grasslands”, Cluj-Napoca, Romania, research assistant, 2016-2017.

• Babeş-Bolyai University, “Biodiversity and salinity tolerance mechanisms of Romanian wild plants”, Project TE, Cluj-Napoca, Romania, research assistant, 2016-2017.

• Babeş-Bolyai University, Transylvanian Dipterological Working group, “Relics, witnesses of complex evolutionary history, in the Carpathian ecosystems: connecting past with the future”, National Research Fund, IDEI project, Cluj-Napoca, Romania, research assistant, 2013-2016.

Honors and fellowships:

• 2023-2027 COST Action: CA22129 InsectAI - Using Image-based AI for Insect Monitoring & Conservation

• „Szülőföldi PhD”, PhD student scholarship (2016-2018).

• „RESEARCH 62 - Doctorat in context european”, POSDRU/187/1.5/S/156069, PhD student scholarship (2015).

• Short Term Scientific Missions (STSM) EurNegVec, Scientific Research Internship, Bernhard Nocht Institute for Tropical Medicine (2015; 3 months, Arbovirology Schmidt-Chanasit Group, Hamburg, Germany).

• National Excellence Scholarship (2013-2014).

• „Apáthy István”, scholarship (2013).

• KMEI Internship University of Szeged, Department of Ecology (2013; 1 month, Szeged, Hungary).

• KMEI Internship University of Debrecen, Department of Evolutionary Zoology and Human Biology (2012; 1 month, Debrecen, Hungary).

Memberships:

• Society for Conservation Biology 2022-.

• British Ecological Society 2019-.

• Hungarian Ecological Society  2019-.

• German Society of general and applied Entomology (Deutsche Gesellschaft für allgemeine und angewandte Entomologie e.V., DGaaE) 2014-2016.

• Transylvanian Dipterological Working Group 2011-.

• Hungarian Student Union of Cluj-Napoca, Department of Biology and Ecology (BÖSZ) 2008-.

Conference organising:

• Carpathian Basin Diptera Camp 2017 (Senetea, Romania).

• BÖSZ Summer School 2014, 2016 (Senetea, Romania).

Teaching activities:

• Evolutionary biology (BSc seminar in Romania, 2017-2018 Babeş-Bolyai University).

• Parasitology (BSc seminar in Romania, 2017-2018, Babeş-Bolyai University).

Research interest:

• Habitat fragmentation

• Urbanization effects

• Biodiversity

• Pollination

• Mosquitoes

• Integrative taxonomy Diptera

• Food web

• Conservation biology