Mohr, Emőke

Emőke Mohr is an assistant professor at the Department of Paleontology, Institute of Geography and Earth Sciences, ELTE Eötvös Loránd University. She obtained her PhD degree in 2009 in the framework of a co-supervision doctoral programme at the Eötvös Loránd University and the Université Claude Bernard Lyon I, on the paleoenvironmental reconstruction of the Miocene Paratethys Sea based on the paleoecology of microfauna and the geochemical analysis of their carbonate skeletons. Her current research is on the evolution of Mesozoic ostracods and their paleoecology in marine and limnic paleoenvironments. She has published more than 60 scientific papers with more than 200 independent references to date. She is a member of the Palaeontological Committee of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, and of the Neogene I and Mesozoic Working Group of the Hungarian Subcommittee on the Hungarian Stratigraphic Committee. During her academic studies, she was twice awarded the title of Excellence Award of Faculty of Natural Sciences (ELTE), she received the Scholarship of the Republic on two occasions, and in 2009, she was also awarded the Elemér Szádeczky-Kardoss Prize. Currently, she is the project leader of a Young Researcher Excellence Programme (2020v2024) and co-investigator of two other Research Excellence Programmes (2021–2024, 2021–2025). During her career, she has had two graduate PhD students and supervised the work of several BSc and MSc students. She places great emphasis on educating young people and promoting science by writing articles and Facebook posts. She has been the coordinator of the Fossil of the Year sub-programme and the institutional coordinator of the Researchers’ Night programme at the ELTE Faculty of Natural Sciences. She deems it important to participate in the public life of the university, and she is currently Secretary of the Institute of Geography and Earth Sciences of ELTE (2020–2024), Member of the Council of the Faculty (2022–2025) and member of the Library Committee of the Faculty and the Textbook Committee of the Faculty. She is married with one child, Csinszka (born in 2017).