ATTILA DEMÉNY

corresponding member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences

director

phone: +361 319 3137

fax: +361 319 3137

e-mail: demeny@geochem.hu

room: 305-306

Place and date of birth: Budapest, 1962

Qualifications:

- diploma in geology (ELTE TTK, 1986)

- university doctor (ELTE TTK, 1992)

- "candidate of geosciences" (Ph.D., MTA TMB 1994)

- doctor of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences (D.Sc., MTA 2001)

- corresponding member of the Hunagrian Academy of Sciences (2010)

Employment: Institute for Geochemical Research, Hungarian Academy of Sciences.

Position: director

Scientific activities:

- Geochemical studies on Hungarian and Alpine high-pressure metamorphic rocks (Penninic rocks, leucophyllites, whiteschists).

- C,O,H and N isotope geochemistry of fluids of mantle-derived igneous rocks with special attention to fluid movements related to carbonatitic magmatism (magmatic rocks of Hungary, carbonatites from India, Canary Islands, the Kola peninsula and Canada).

- Stable isotope geochemistry of major extinction events (Permian-Triassic, Triassic-Jurassic).

- Paleoclimate research on terrestrial deposits, coordination of the Geochemistry and Paleoclimate Research Group in the institute.

Study trips:

- Austria, 1987, 1 month, Soros Foundation.

- Utrecht, The Netherlands, 1988-1989, 5 months, Hungarian Scholarship Council.

- Trieste, Italy, 1993, 2 months, CNR.

- Lausanne, Switzerland, 1995, 4 months, Fonds National Suisse de la Recherche Scientifique.

- Tübingen, Germany, 1996, 2 months, DAAD.

- University of Rome, Italy. Invited as visiting professor for 1 month in 2001.

- University of Lausanne, 3 months, Fondation Herbette.

Main  professional activities:

- 1994-96. International Isotope Society, chairman

- 1996-. Member of the Committee for Mineralogy-Petrography-Geochemistry of the Hungaran Academy of Sciences. 2002-2008: Secretary. 2008-: chairman.

- 2000-2008: International Association for Geochemistry and Cosmochemistry Councillor/Executive Member; 2002-2008: Secretary.

- 2006-: secretary of the Hungarian National Committee of the International Union of Geological Sciences.

- 2004-2008: member of the Earth Sciences 1 jury of the Hungarian national Research Fund, chairman from 2005 to 2008.

- 2005-: editorial board member of Acta Geologica Hungarica.

- 2008-: member of the Habilitation Committee of the Eötvös Loránd University

- 2009-: Earth System Science Data, editorial board member.

- 2010-: Editor-in-Chief of Central European Geology.

Conference organization:     

- 1996. Isotope Workshop III, Budapest

- 1997. 1^st Isotope Geochemistry Meeting, Budapest (Hungarian)

- 1997. The role of geo- and environmental sciences in the preservation of our historical heritage, meeting, Budapest (Hungarian)

- 2000, 2002: Hungarian Meeting of Isotope Geochemistry.

- 2007. PAGES (Past Global Changes) 2007 conference for the Hungarian participants.

- 2008: International Geological Congress, session convener.

- European Union of Geosciences, session convener (2006, 2009, 2010, 2011)

Awards and scholarships:

- Szádeczky Kardoss Elemér Foundation, 1^st and 2^nd Awards.

- 1993. Youth Award, Hungarian Academy of Sciences.

- 2003. Publication Award of the Hungarian Meteorological Survey.

- 2007. Academy Award.

- 2009. Certificate of Recognition. International Association of GeoChemistry. 

Teaching activities:

Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest: special course ("Principles and applications in stable isotope geochemistry"), consulent of diploma and Ph.D. works (3).

Selected Publications of the last 5 years

Full list of publications

Book chapter

1)    Demény A, Bajnóczi B, Kele S, Fórizs I, Barna G, Siklósy Z. (2010): Stable isotope analyses of carbonatic decoration pieces found in the late copper age cemetary at Budakalász-Luppa csárda. In: Bondár, M. and Raczky L. (eds): The Copper Age cemetery of Budakalász. pp. 437-447.

 Journal articles

1)    Haas, J., Demény, A., Hips, K., Zajzon, N., Weiszburg, T.G., Sudar, M., Pálfy, J.  (2007): Biotic and environmental changes in the Permian–Triassic boundary interval recorded on a western Tethyan ramp in the Bükk Mountains, Hungary. Global and Planetary Change, 55, 136-154.

2)    Pálfy, J., Demény, A., Haas, J., Carter, E.S., Görög, Á., Halász, D., Oravecz-Scheffer, A., Hetényi, M., Márton, E., Orchard, M.J., Ozsvárt,  P., Vető, I., Zajzon, N. (2007): Triassic–Jurassic boundary events inferred from integrated stratigraphy of the Csővár section, Hungary. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 244, 11-33.

3)    Demény, A., Casillas, R., Vennemann, T.W., Hegner, E., Nagy, G., Ahijado, A., De la Nuez, J., Sipos, P., Pilet, S., Milton, A.J. (2008): Plume-related stable isotope compositions and fluid/rock interaction processes in the seamount series of La Palma, Canary Islands, Spain. Journal of the Geological Society, London, 293, 155-175.

4)    Demény, A., Siklósy, Z (2008).: Combination of off-line preparation and continuous flow mass spectrometry: D/H analyses of inclusion waters. Rapid Communications in Mass Spectrometry, 22, 1329-1334.

5)    Chakhmouradian, AR; Mumin, AH; Demeny, A, Elliott, B (2008): Postorogenic carbonatites at Eden Lake, Trans-Hudson Orogen (northern manitoba, canada): Geological setting, mineralogy and geochemistry. Lithos, 103, 503-526.

6)    Kele S, Demeny A, Siklosy Z, Nemeth T, Toth M, Kovacs MB (2008): Chemical and stable isotope composition of recent hot-water travertines and associated thermal waters, from Egerszalok, Hungary: Depositional facies and non-equilibrium fractionation. Sedimentary Geology, 211, 53-72.

7)    Siklosy, Z., Demeny, A., Vennemann, T.W., Pilet, S., Kramers, J., Leel-Ossy, Sz., Bondár, M., Shen, C-C., Hegner, E. (2009): Bronze Age volcanic event recorded in stalagmites by combined isotope and trace element studies. Rapid Communications in Mass Spectrometry, 23, 801-808.

8)    Chakhmouradian, A.R., Böhm, C.O., Demény, A., Reguir, E.P., Hegner, E., Creaser, R.A., Halden, N.M., Yang, P. (2009): “Kimberlite” from Wekusko Lake, Manitoba: a diamond-indicator-bearing beforsite and not a kimberlite, after all. Lithos, 112, 347-357.

9)    Demény, A., Casillas, R., Hegner, E., Vennemann, T.W., Nagy, G., Sipos, P. (2010): Geochemical and H-O-Sr-Nd isotope evidence for magmatic processes and meteoric-water interactions in the basal complex of La Gomera, Canary Islands. Mineralogy and Petrology, 98, 181-195.

10)  Gwalani LG, Rogers KA, Demeny A, Groves DI, Ramsay R, Beard A, Downes PJ, Eves A (2010): The Yungul carbonatite dykes associated with the epithermal fluorite deposit at Speewah, Kimberley, Australia: carbon and oxygen isotope constraints on their origin. Mineralogy and Petrology, 98, 123-141.

11)  Demeny, A., Dallai, L., Frezzotti, M.L., Vennemann, T. W., Embey-Isztin, A., Dobosi, G., Nagy, G. (2010): Origin of CO2 and carbonate veins in mantle-derived xenoliths in the Pannonian Basin. Lithos, 117, 172-182.

12)  Demény A, Kele S, Siklósy (2010): Empirical equations for the temperature dependence of calcite-water oxygen isotope fractionation from 10 to 70 ºC. – Rapid Communication in Mass Spectrometry, 24, 3521-3526.