Lukács, Réka

Réka Lukács (Réka Zsuzsanna Haranginé Lukács) is a senior fellow at the Institute for Geological and Geochemical Research, HUN-REN Research Centre For Astronomy and Earth Sciences. She has  also been a member of the MTA-ELTE Volcanology Research Group since its foundation and is a lecturer in the graduate and post-graduate programme of the Faculty of Natural Sciences, Eötvös Loránd University. She completed her PhD in 2010, while having small children, and she returned to scientific work after 8 years of maternity leave and one year of working in science support. Her research fields target products of rhyolitic-dacitic volcanic eruption regarding petrology, geochemistry, zircon U-Th-Pb geochronology and volcanology. She studies volcanic rocks of the Carpathian Basin to understand the underlying causes of eruptions, their volume, age, frequency, the evolution of the magmas, and the lifetime of magma reservoirs. She has more than 85 scientific publications and received over 600 independent citations. She is the head of the Igneous and Metamorphic Rocks Working Group of the Hungarian Stratigraphic Commission and is the secretary of the Petrology Subcommission of the MTA Geochemistry, Mineralogy and Petrology Commission. During her undergraduate years, she won the first prize at the National Student Research Competition (2001), she received the title of Outstanding Student of the Faculty twice and got the fellowship of the Hungarian Republic twice. As a PhD student, she received a Marie Curie Fellowship (2003–2004) and several fellowships as a post-doc: Magyari Zoltán Post-doctoral Fellowship (2013–2014), OTKA Post-doctoral (2015v2018), Post-doctoral Excellence Fellowships (2016–2019) and the Bolyai J. Research Fellowship twice (2014; 2020). She is currently the principal investigator of a Young Excellence Research Program project (2019–2023). In 2001, she received the Award of the Ministry of Environment, and was honoured with  the Szádeczky-Kardoss Elemér Award twice (2006; 2018). She has been the editor of the journal Földtani Közlöny since 2024. She has been the supervisor and consultant of several BSc, MSc and PhD students, and puts emphasis on science popularization and youth education. She is married with three children: Botond (2004), Csenge (2007) and Zsombor (2009).