Curriculum vitae 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:
„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:
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