People
Dr. Daniel Vereș
senior researcher I
geologist, paleoenvironmental change, the reconstruction of the terrestrial response to millennial-scale climate variability during the Quaternary, comparison with developments worldwide, tephrochronology
Dr. Daniela Cociuba (Borda)
senior researcher II
biology, ecology and conservation of Microchiroptera (the European species), cave climatology related to bats, microbial hazard in caves, and human impact in the underground environments on air, water, and solid substrates
Dr. Ruxandra Năstase-Bucur
senior researcher III
Biologist, with research interests in molecular phylogeny and phylogeography of cave Coleoptera, historical biogeography, speciation and evolution in caves
Sanda Iepure
senior researcher
Biologist, specialized in systematics of cyclopoids and ostracods crustaceans with interest in groundwater ecotoxicology, ecohydrology of rivers ecosystems and the hyporheic zone, (paleo)limnology (fossil ostracods)
Associated Researcher
Dr. Tiziana Di Lorenzo
senior researcher
Senior Researcher at the Research Institute on
Terrestrial Ecosystems of the National Council of Research (IRET-CNR)
and has expertise in groundwater ecology, ecotoxicology, physiology,
functional diversity, and environmental risk assessment. She has
coordinated projects on environmental risk assessment in groundwater,
and she is currently involved in the project "National Biodiversity
Future Center – NBFC" of the Italian Ministry of University and
Research under the support of the National Recovery and Resilience
Plan and in the project Biodiversa+ DarCo (BIODIV21_0006). Tiziana Di
Lorenzo is a member of the Center for Ecology, Evolution and
Environmental Changes (cE3c) of the University of Lisbon.
Dr. Ulrich Hambach
senior researcher
I am a geologist and my research interests comprise Quaternary palaeoclimatology, palaeo- and environmental magnetism, loess research, dust as a climate factor, tephrochronology and geoarchaeology and span from general Quaternary Research over aspects of Applied Geophysics to Sedimentology and Human-Environment Interaction.
Nenad Buzjak
senior researcher
Professor at the Department of Geography, Faculty of Science, University of Zagreb. His main research topics are in the area of physical geography (geomorphology, geoecology, speleology and microclimatology) and nature protection. He led or participated in scientific and professional projects with topics in physical geography and speleology. He is currently the co-leader of the scientific project CRADIKARST (https://cardikarst.geog.pmf.hr/) and leader of the research of the cave microclimate in the Plitvice Lakes National Park and Cave park Grabovača (Croatia).
Cristian Sitar
researcher
Taxonomy, ecology
Our Collaborators
Dr. Silviu Constantin
senior researcher I, Emil Racovitza Institute of Speleology, Bucharest
geology, paleoclimatology, U-Th dating
Dr. Alexandru Petculescu
senior researcher II, Emil Racovitza Institute of Speleology, Bucharest
Quaternary mammals, paleoenvironments
Dr. Luchiana Faur
researcher, Emil Racovitza Institute of Speleology, Bucharest
geology, mineralogy
Răzvan Adrian Arghir
researcher, Emil Racovitza Institute of Speleology, Bucharest
geology
Dragoș Ștefan Măntoiu
PhD student
Bats, modelling