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FARKAS Jenő Zsolt

Farkas Jenő Zsolt
Great Plain Research Institute
Kecskemét Department

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Curriculum Vitae

Personal data

Name : Farkas Jenő Zsolt

Place and date of birth : Budapest, September 1st,1977

Marital status : married

Contact

landline Work +36 (76) 502-846
fax Centre +36 (76) 502-849
landline Centre +36 (76) 502-840
E-mail farkasj(at)rkk.hu
E-mail farkas.jenozsolt(at)krtk.hu

Education and training

2000University of Szeged — geographer, specialization in settlement development
2000University of Szeged — MSc. in history and geography
2002University of Budapest, Faculty of Public Administration — financial expert of local goverments, specialization in settlement management
2003University of Szeged — fulfilled all requirements of the ’Geographical and geological analysis of regional processes PhD programme’
2006Budapest University of Technology (BME) — applied GIS expert
2008University of Szeged — PhD comprehensive exam
2011University of Szeged, Doctoral School of Geosiences — PhD Earth Science

Language skills

German (reads)
English (writes, reads, lectures)

Places of work and employment

1999—2000Virágh Gedeon Secondary School, Kunszentmiklós — history and geography teacher
2000—2001County Office of Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development, Kecskemét — chief inspector of national agricultural subsidies
2002—2005County Office of Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development, Kecskemét — IT inspector
2005—2011Great Plain Institute, Centre for Regional Studies, Kecskemét — junior research fellow
2011—2013College of Kecskemét — senior lecturer
2011—2020Great Plain Research Department, Institute for Regional Studies, CERS, Kecskemét — research fellow
2020—Great Plain Research Department, Institute for Regional Studies, CERS, Kecskemét — senior research fellow

Teaching activities

2008—lecturer, College of Kecskemét, Faculty of Horticulture, Department of Regional Development and Applied GIS
2018—titular associate professor, John von Neumann University
2018—lecturer, Szent István University, Enyedi György Doctoral School of Regional Sciences

Scientific activity

2011—HAS Regional Board of Szeged, Agroeconomics, member
2015—HAS Regional Board of Szeged, Earth Science, member

Awards

2021—2024Bolyai János Kutatási Ösztöndíj, Magyar Tudományos Akadémia

Subjects taught

Regional statistics (College of Kecskemét, Faculty of Horticulture)
Geographical Information Systems (College of Kecskemét & Szent István University)
Natural resources (College of Kecskemét, Faculty of Horticulture)
Agrarian and Rural Development (College of Kecskemét, Faculty of Horticulture)
Strategic issues of rural development (College of Kecskemét, Faculty of Horticulture)
Rural Development (College of Kecskemét, Faculty of Horticulture)

Research fields

Land use and land use change, land use modelling
GIS and remote sensing methods
Agricultural geography
Rural geography

Publications


Complete list of publications and citations (MTMT Hungarian Scientific Bibliography)


Selected list of scientific publications

Csomós, G., Farkas, J. Z., & Kovács, Z. (2020). Access to urban green spaces and environmental inequality in post-socialist cities. Hungarian Geographical Bulletin, 69(2), 191-207.
Lennert, J., Farkas, J. Z., Kovács, A. D., Molnár, A., Módos, R., Baka, D., & Kovács, Z. (2020). Measuring and predicting long-term land cover changes in the functional urban area of Budapest. Sustainability, 12(8), 3331.
 Kovács, Z., Farkas, Z. J., Egedy, T., Kondor, A. C., Szabó, B., Lennert, J., ... & Kohán, B. (2019). Urban sprawl and land conversion in post-socialist cities: The case of metropolitan Budapest. Cities, 92, 71-81.
 Csatári, B., Farkas, J. Z., & Lennert, J. (2019). Agrarian and rural development in Hungary after 1989. In Three Decades of Transformation in the East-Central European Countryside (pp. 21-54). Springer, Cham.
Farkas, J. Z., & Lennert, J. (2019). Future prospects of land cover change in Hungary: Modelling and forecasts. In Three Decades of Transformation in the East-Central European Countryside (pp. 309-333). Springer, Cham.
Farkas, J. Z., Hoyk, E., & Rakonczai, J. (2017). Geographical analysis of climate vulnerability at a regional scale: The case of the Southern Great Plain in Hungary. Hungarian Geographical Bulletin, 66(2), 129-147.
Kovács, A. D., Hoyk, E., & Farkas, J. Z. (2017). Homokhátság-a special rural area affected by aridification in the Carpathian basin, Hungary. European Countryside, 9(1), 29-50.