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Last updated: 2007. jan. 10

Curriculum vitae


I. Personal Data:

Name: Endre Sárkány-Kiss
Born: 07. September 1942, Puieni, Cluj county, Romania
Address:
at home: RO-540066 Tîrgu Mureş, str. Harghitei 6., Romania.
during work period: RO-400342 Cluj-Napoca, str.Gh. Dima 33/18., Romania
Telephone: +40-265-269814, +40-264-524155
Employment: associate professor, Babeş-Bolyai University, Faculty of Biology and Geology, Department of Taxonomy and Ecology
Civil status: married
Address at work: RO-400006 Cluj-Napoca, str. Clinicilor 5-7., Romani.
Telephone at work: +40-264-405300/5207
Fax: +40-264-431858
E-mail: [email protected]
Scientific area: hidrobiology, rivers of the Carpathian Basin, ecology and taxonomy of snails and shells.
Language skills: Hungarian – mother tongue, Romanian – fluent, German – good, English – poor

II. Studies:

  • 1963-1966: B.Sc., Biology-Zoology, Babeş-Bolyai University, Faculty of Biology and Geography, Cluj-Napoca, Romania
  • 1987: Ph.D., Department of Biology, Faculty of Biology and Geography, Babeş-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca, Romania. The title of the thesis: Study of the mollusk populations of the Mureş River. Scientific supervisor: Prof. Dr. Matic Zachiu.

III. Scientific carreer:

  • 1966–1967: Biology teacher at Elementary School, Aluniş, Romania
  • 1967–1968: Biology teacher at High School no. 2, Reghin, Romania
  • 1968–1975: Biology teacher at Elementary School, Aluniş, Romania
  • 1975–1991: Researcher at the Natural History Museum of Tîrgu Mureş, Romania
  • 1985–1991: Chief researcher at the Natural History Museum of Tîrgu Mureş, Romania
  • 1991–1995: Assistant professor at the Babeş-Bolyai University, Faculty of Biology and Geography later on Faculty of Biology and Geology, Department of Zoology, Cluj-Napoca, Romania.
  • 1995–1999: Assistant professor at the Babeş-Bolyai University, Faculty of Biology and Geology, Department of Ecology and Genetics, Cluj-Napoca, Romania.
  • 1999–...: Associate Professor at the Babeş-Bolyai University, Faculty of Biology and Geology, Department of Ecology and Genetics, currently Department of Taxonomy and Ecology

IV. Participation in research projects and grants:

  • 1978-1979: project manager of the ‘Fărăgău Lake Project’ research programme, Natural History Museum of Tîrgu Mureş, Romania.
  • 1991: project manager of the ‘Mureş/Maros River’ research programme, Regional Environmental Centre, Budapest, Hungary.
  • 1991-1995: member of the ‘Biodiversity of the Danube Delta’ research programme, Danube Delta Institute, Tulcea, Romania.
  • 1992: project manager of the ‘Someş/Szamos River’ research programme, Tisza Klub Szolnok – Liga Pro Europa Tîrgu Mureş, Hungary – Romania.
  • 1992-1993: member of the ‘Environmental study of the Danube Delta’ research programme, National Institute of Geology, Bucharest, Romania.
  • 1994-1995: project manager of the ‘Criş/Körös Rivers’ research programme, Heinrich Böll Fund – Liga Pro Europa Tîrgu Mureş, Germany – Romania.
  • 1995: project manager of the ‘Upper Tisa – a cross-boundary green corridor’ research programme, Regional Environmental Centre, Budapest, Hungary.
  • 1995-1997: member of the ‘Study of Cheile Turzii, Cheile Tureni, Scăriţa-Belioara and the Warm Someş Valley’s protected areas’ research programme, Babeş-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca, Romania.
  • 1996: project manager of the ‘Someş/Szamos River II’ research programme, Heinrich Böll Fund – Liga Pro Europa Tîrgu Mureş, Germany – Romania.
  • 1996-1997: member of the ‘Biodiversity of the Danube Delta’s strictly protected areas’ research programme, Danube Delta Institute, Tulcea, Romania.
  • 1998: member of the ‘Biodiversity of Transylvanian wetlands’ research programme, Danube Delta Institute, Tulcea, Romania.
  • 1999: member of ‘The study of the ecological state of the Bodrog River’s valley and of its tributaries (Uj, Laborec, Laborc, Ondava – Ukraine, Slovakia, Hungary)’ research programme, Regional Environmental Centre, Budapest, Hungary.
  • 1999-2000: project manager of ‘The natural resources of the Mureş River and sustainable development (Romania – Hungary)’ research programme, Open Society Fund, Prague, Czech Republic.
  • 2000-2003: member of the ‘Risk assessment of cyanide-leaking during gold extraction procedures on the environmental conditions of Central Asia and Central Europe (subtopic: The risk assessment of river ecosystems, the pathways of harmful solutions in food webs and in the life cycle of water organisms.)’ research programme, Inco Copernicus Project ICA2-1999-10065, Romania.
  • 2004-2006: project manager of the ‘Qualitative changes in the Arieş Valley due to anthropogenic influences’ research programme, MENER 515/2004, Romania.
  • 2005-2008: project manager of the ‘Development of complex ecological and biomonitoring assessment methods of the qualitative changes of the Someş Basin’s ecosystems’ research programme, CEEX Research Projects – Complex Development, PC-D06-PT25-293, Romania.


V. Teaching activity at the Babeş-Bolyai University (Cluj-Napoca, Romania), Faculty of Biology and Geology, Department of Taxonomy and Ecology:

  • General Ecology I-II. (B.Sc., compulsory, 3-4th semester, Biology profile)
  • Population Biology I-II. (B.Sc., compulsory, 3-4th semester, Ecology profile)
  • Limnology (B.Sc., compulsory, 6th semester, Ecology profile)
  • Ecotoxicology (B.Sc., compulsory, 7-8th semester, Ecology profile)
  • Saprobiology (M.Sc., compulsory, 2nd semester, Terrestrial ecology and hidrobiology profile)

VI. Scientific honours:

  • 2004: „For Hungarian Ecology” prize awarded by the Hungarian Ecological Society (Hungary) for teaching ecology in Hungarian language at University level in Romania.

VII. Membership (Academic Societies / Editorial Board of Scientific Journals):

Societies:

  • Member of the Unitas Malacologica (International Malacological Association)
  • Member of the Societa Italiana di Malacologia, Italy
  • Leader of the Ecology Department of „Liga Pro Europa”, Tîrgu Mureş, Romania
  • Member of the Department of Life Sciences of the Transylvanian Museum Association, Cluj-Napoca, Romania
  • Member of the Hungarian Ecological Society, Hungary
  • Founder and president of the Apáthy István Association, Cluj-Napoca, Romania
  • Member of the Scientific Advisory Board of the Hungarian University Institute – Federation from Cluj/Kolozsvár, Cluj-Napoca, Romania

Journals:

  • Editor of the River Ecology book series of the Tiscia monograph series, Szeged, Hungary.
    Member of the editorial board of Tiscia – an Ecological Journal, Szeged, Hungary.

Scientific reviewer of the following books:

  • Teodorescu, I., Gavrilă, L., Matei, M., Braghină, V., Ţibea, F., Bădără, I. (1995): Biológia /Genetika, ökológia, evolucionizmus/ Tankönyv a VIII. osztály számára. [Biology /Genetics, ecology, evolution/. Textbook for the 8th grade]. Hungarian translation: Macalik Ernő. Ed. Didactică şi Pedagogică, R.A., Bucureşti, Romania, pp. 176. (in Hungarian)
  • Molnár, L. (1996): Biológia feladatlapok a X. osztály számára. [Biology tests for the 10th grade]. Lira Press, Sfîntu Gheorghe, Romania, pp. 127. (in Hungarian)
  • Wilhelm, S. (1998): Halak bonckés alatt. [Anatomy of fishes]. Studium Press, Cluj-Napoca, Romania, pp. 160. (in Hungarian)
  • Sepsi, Á., Kohl, I. (1997): A Kárpáti barnamedvéről. [About the Carpathian brown bear]. Transylvanian Museum Association, Cluj-Napoca, Romania, pp. 99. (in Hungarian)
  • Wilhelm, S. (2000): Halak a természet háztartásában. Édesvízi halaink biológiája. [The role of fishes in nature. Biology of our freshwater fishes]. Kriterion Press, Bucureşti, Romania, pp. 176. (in Hungarian)